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Pedro Troglio
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Personal information
Date of birth (1965-07-28) 28 July 1965 (age 59)
Place of birth Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height 1.72 m
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current club CD Olimpia
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1983–1988 River Plate 59 (3)
1988–1989 Verona 32 (1)
1989–1991 Lazio 40 (1)
1991–1994 Ascoli 106 (13)
1994–1996 Avispa Fukuoka 56 (20)
1997–2002 Gimnasia La Plata 124 (4)
2002–2003 Villa Dálmine 31 (4)
Total 448 (46)
National team
1987–1990 Argentina 21 (2)
Teams managed
2004–2005 Godoy Cruz
2005–2007 Gimnasia La Plata
2007–2008 Independiente
2008–2010 Cerro Porteño
2010–2011 Argentinos Juniors
2011–2016 Gimnasia La Plata
2016 Tigre
2017–2018 Universitario
2018–2019 Gimnasia La Plata
2019–2021 CD Olimpia
2022 San Lorenzo
2022– CD Olimpia
  • Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Pedro Antonio Troglio (born 28 July 1965) is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is the current manager of Honduran club CD Olimpia

Playing career

During his career as a footballer, Troglio played for River Plate, as well as at the 1990 FIFA World Cup with Argentina, where he scored a goal against the USSR.

He then spent the main part of his career in Italy, playing four seasons in Serie A (for Hellas Verona, Lazio and Ascoli) and two in Serie B.

During the final years of his career, Troglio played for Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata and Villa Dálmine (a fourth division team where he played alongside fellow veterans José Basualdo, Roberto Monserrat, Mario Pobersnik and Raúl "Pacha" Cardozo).

Coaching career

Troglio then went on to coach Godoy Cruz de Mendoza in Primera B Nacional but he left in the middle of the tournament to take on in March 2005 a demoralized Gimnasia and helped keep the team in the Primera. The next season, he led them to 2nd place in the Apertura tournament, equalling their highest finish ever.

In June 2006 his #21 jersey was retired in Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata, being this the first number ever retired in an Argentine football club.

After the successful 2005 campaign, Gimnasia has performance declined markedly. Following a series of defeats in national and international competitions, including a 7:0 derby defeat to Estudiantes de La Plata, Troglio resigned in April 2007, and was temporarily replaced with former aide Ricardo Kuzemka. Nevertheless, Troglio's status with fans did not deteriorate strongly, with most press articles blaming club president Juan José Muñoz on the poor performances of the team.

In 2007, after Jorge Burruchaga's departure of Independiente, Troglio was hired to manage this institution. In March 2008, after an erratic season start, Troglio was sacked and replaced by Miguel Angel Santoro.

In 2009, he won the campeonato Apertura with Cerro Porteño. On 30 May 2010 Argentinos Juniors hired the former Cerro Porteno coach to replace Claudio Borghi.

He stepped down as manager of Argentinos on 18 September 2011 after a bad start to the 2011–12 Apertura.

In 2019 he agreed to move to Honduras to manage CD Olimpia, the club with most titles in the country. He arrived to a team experiencing a 6-tournament drought, having won their last title in the 2015–16 Clausura. In 2019 Pedro and his team won the 2019–20 Clausura, ending a three-and-a-half-year stretch without winning the cup.

On June 2, 2022, he re-signed with former club CD Olimpia after a short period with Argentine club San Lorenzo.

Career statistics

Club

Club performance League Cup League Cup Total
Season Club League Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Argentina League Cup League Cup Total
1985–86 River Plate Primera División 1 0 1 0
1986–87 23 1 23 1
1987–88 33 2 33 2
Italy League Coppa Italia League Cup Total
1988–89 Hellas Verona Serie A 32 1 32 1
1989–90 Lazio Serie A 24 0 24 0
1990–91 16 1 16 1
1991–92 Ascoli Serie A 32 4 32 4
1992–93 Serie B 38 6 38 6
1993–94 36 3 36 3
Japan League Emperor's Cup J.League Cup Total
1994 Fujieda Blux Football League 0 0 1 0 - 1 0
1995 Fukuoka Blux Football League 29 10 3 1 - 32 11
1996 Avispa Fukuoka J1 League 27 10 1 0 14 2 42 12
Argentina League Cup League Cup Total
1996/97 Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata Primera División 15 0 15 0
1997–98 6 1 6 1
1998–99 35 3 35 3
1999–2000 28 0 28 0
2000–01 13 0 13 0
2001–02 27 0 27 0
2002–03 Unión Primera División 31 4 31 4
Country Argentina 212 11 212 11
Italy 178 15 178 15
Japan 56 20 5 1 14 2 75 23
Total 446 46 5 1 14 2 465 49

International

Argentina national team
Year Apps Goals
1987 1 0
1988 3 1
1989 8 0
1990 9 1
Total 21 2

Honours

Player

River Plate

Avispa Fukuoka

Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata

Villa Dálmine

  • Primera C Metropolitana runner-up: 2002–03

Argentina

Manager

Cerro Porteño

  • Paraguayan Primera División: 2009

C.D. Olimpia

  • Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras: 2019 Apertura, 2020 Apertura, 2021 Clausura, 2021 Apertura, 2022 Apertura, 2023 Clausura
  • CONCACAF League: 2022

See also

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