Boca confirmed Diego Martínez as its new coach

The 45-year-old coach was able to unblock his conflict with Hurricane (I had to compensate him 300 thousand dollars) and this Tuesday he became the new technical director of Mouth.

Notably Mouth postponed the start of the preseasonwhich was scheduled for December 26, and moved it to Tuesday January 2 as a result of the delay in hiring Martinez.

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.

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.