Lionel Scaloni

Lionel Sebastián Scaloni ( born May 16, 1978 in Rosario ) is an Argentine football player.

Scaloni began his football career with his hometown club Newell 's Old Boys, where he was used in the 1994/95 season División for the first time in the Argentine Primera. He became a regular player, and remained so at the Estudiantes, the league rivals from La Plata. For most of his football career, however, spent the Right Wing in Spain, where he played eight seasons long from 1997 at Deportivo La Coruna. Here he achieved his greatest successes. 1999/2000 was La Coruna Spanish masters, then twice runner-up twice and third championship. From 2000 to 2004 the club took four times in a row at the Champions League twice and was eliminated only from the quarter-finals, once one came even to the semifinals. On 41 CL- inserts it brought Scaloni at this time. The following two years not so successfully Deportivo landed only in the midfield and the Argentines had to fight for his place in the team. During the 2005/06 season he went on loan to English Premier League club West Ham United. There he reached the English Cup finals.

In the national jersey Lionel Scalonis career was not as successful. While he was at the Junior World Championships in 1997 in Malaysia in the U20 selection of his country, which also won the title, but in the senior team, he came only in 2003 for the first time to use and was thereafter rarely appointed. Due to his vast international experience but was nevertheless included in the squad for the Argentina Football World Cup 2006 in Germany.

Scaloni also owns the Italian and Spanish citizenship.

Title / successes

• Junior World Champion: 1997 ( U20)
• Spanish Champion: 2000
• Spanish Vice-Champion: 2001, 2002