Who is Diego Martínez? The coach that Riquelme chose for Boca

Who is Diego Martínez?  The coach that Riquelme chose for Boca

Diego Martinez He is the coach chosen by Juan roman riquelmeafter winning the presidential elections in Mouth on Sunday, so that he is in charge of the “Xeneize” first team in the first steps of the management of the former Argentine National Team player as president.

After what were the elections that gave the winner to the vice president of the official management of Jorge Amor Amealthe possibility that Diego Martinez direct Mouth It skyrocketed exponentially and only details would remain for him to become the new technical director of the Ribera club.

The controversial departure of Martínez from Huracán, with a debt to settle in the middle

The former DT of Tiger was the one pointed out by Riquelme ten days ago in the middle of the electoral campaign and, upon receiving the call from the now president of Mouth, Martinez He mentioned this situation to the leaders of Hurricane and resigned from the position of coach in the “Globo” days after being eliminated in the quarterfinals of the League Cup in view of Platense.

At that time, the club Patricios Park announced the departure of the technical director and clarified that “Given the proposal he received from another club, the coach informed his decision not to continue in the position, interrupting the employment contract that linked him to the Institution until June 30, 2024.”

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Diego Martínez would stay in Huracán.

Due to this interruption of the link with the “Quemero”, the departure of Diego Martinez is not yet resolved since, as sources confirmed to Argentine News, Hurricane He will only sign the termination of the contract in exchange for compensation of around 300 thousand dollars since I had a contract until the middle of the year 2024.

Despite this obstacle imposed by the club led by David Garzonthe situation could be resolved in these hours and Diego Martinez would become the new coach of Mouth fulfilling the wish of Juan roman riquelme for the 45-year-old technical director to take the reins of the first team.

Diego Martínez’s career as a player and coach

Born on November 16, 1978 in Buenos Aires, Diego Martinez He was a midfielder who spent almost his entire career in the Ascent of the argentine soccerdebuting in 1997 in Ituzaingó and retiring in 2011 in Caseros students. Abroad he played in the dawn of Guatemala in 2002and in Pierikos and Diagoras of Greece between 2007 and 2011.

The former promotion player made the Physical Education teachers in it CEFFAR that operated on the La Candela property that had Mouth and there he had as a teacher Jorge Raffo that, when he landed in the “Xeneize” youth structure, he was summoned to work at the Ribera club.

Martinez started with the category 2000 and then several boys passed by 2004. In that period, he coached several of the key players in the youth teams of Mouth in the last moment: Valentín Barco, Ezequiel Fernández, Mateo Retegui, Facundo Colidio, Aaron Molinas, Marcelo Weigandt, Luca Langoni, Vicente Taborda and Manuel Roffo.

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Diego Martínez in the Boca youth team.

Diego Martínez in the Boca youth team.

Then in 2015went on to take the reins of the club in which he debuted as a player, Ituzaingówhere he directed 44 games, winning 17, drawing 18 and losing 9 in the First C. After his time at the club in the west of Greater Buenos Aires, Diego Martinez had experiences in Canuelas, Communications and MidlandEdit until you reach Caseros students where he began to show himself and make himself known.

In the “Pincha”, enter 2018 and 2020directed 59 games where he won 39, tied 12 and lost 15 where he achieved the ascent to the First National and arrived at semi-finals of the Argentine Cup 2018/19 in view of River.

After an ephemeral passage through Godoy Cruz de Mendoza of 9 games with two draws and seven losses, Diego Martinez took the reins of Tiger where he directed 81 games, won 34, drew 27 and lost 20. During his time in the “Matador”, ascended to the club to the Professional Soccer League in 2021 and arrived at the final of the League Cup in 2022 where he fell, precisely, before Mouth.

In June 2023the coach decided to terminate his relationship with the club Victory and, a month later, it was presented in Hurricanewhere he lifted a team sunk in the relegation zone, saved it from it and took it to the quarter finals of the League Cup where, on December 2, he was eliminated on penalties against Platense.

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