Diego Placente

Placente 2008 jersey from Girondins Bordeaux

Diego Rodolfo Placente ( born April 24, 1977 in Buenos Aires ) is a former Argentine football player with an Italian passport.

Association

Diego Placente began his career in his hometown of Buenos Aires in the Argentinos Juniors from 1997 to 2001, he played for River Plate, with whom he celebrated three Argentine league titles. In 2001 the defender to Germany in the Bundesliga and played until 2005 for Bayer 04 Leverkusen. With the initial self Placente was 2002 runner-up and reached the final of the UEFA Champions League. This one lost but with 1:2 against Real Madrid as well as the finals of the DFB Cup with 2:4 against FC Schalke 04 at the beginning of the 2005/06 season left Diego Placente Leverkusen and joined the Spanish first division Celta Vigo climber, where his contract was terminated in September 2007. From 1 January 2008 he played for half a year at CA San Lorenzo de Almagro in the first Argentine league before moving to Bordeaux in the summer of 2008. In 2010 he joined San Lorenzo de Almagro, however, again to. There he graduated in the 2010/11 season 16 games. For the 2011/12 season he switched to the opposite side of the Río de la Plata in the Uruguayan capital to Nacional Montevideo. Until December 4, 2011, he was employed in nine games the Primera División.

In August 2012, Placente moved to his hometown club back to Argentinos Juniors.

In November 2013 Placente was arrested in Germany because of a criminal tax proceedings from Leverkusen times.

National

His debut for the national team of Argentina celebrated Placente in 2000 against Mexico. With the Albiceleste he took part in the Football World Cup 2002, Copa America 2004 and Confederations Cup 2005. However, it was not included in the Argentine squad for the World Cup 2006.

Game style

His former coach Klaus Toppmöller described him as a very good tactician, he " would have sent home favorite from the tactical training " because it could all already.