Abbondanzieri in 2007
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Roberto Carlos Abbondanzieri | ||
Date of birth | 19 August 1972 | ||
Place of birth | Bouquet, Argentina | ||
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
Youth career | |||
Rosario Central | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1994–1996 | Rosario Central | 57 | (0) |
1997–2006 | Boca Juniors | 204 | (0) |
2006–2008 | Getafe | 83 | (0) |
2009–2010 | Boca Juniors | 28 | (0) |
2010 | Internacional | 8 | (0) |
Total | 380 | (0) | |
National team‡ | |||
1989 | Argentina U-17 | 3 | (0) |
2004–2008 | Argentina | 49 | (0) |
Teams managed | |||
2012–2014 | Godoy Cruz (Assistant Manager) | ||
2015 | Arsenal de Sarandí (Assistant Manager) | ||
2016– | Unión Española (Assistant Manager) | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 19:10, 19 June 2011 (UTC). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 20:48, 23 May 2011 (UTC) |
Roberto Carlos "Pato" Abbondanzieri (born Abbondancieri on 19 August 1972 in Bouquet, Santa Fe) is an Argentine former football goalkeeper. He spent most of his career at Boca Juniors in his homeland, as well as Getafe of La Liga and Internacional of Brazil.
Abbondanzieri earned 49 caps for the Argentina national football team from 2004 to 2008, playing at two Copa America tournaments and the 2006 FIFA World Cup.
Abbondanzieri's professional debut took place on 6 December 1994 at Santa Fe's Rosario Central, with whom he would soon after win the 1995 CONMEBOL Cup. He played with the club until 1997, when he moved to Boca Juniors to be the reserve goalkeeper.
Abbondanzieri trained in the shadow of Óscar Córdoba until the Colombian goalie suffered an injury during the Clausura tournament of 1999. However, Abbondanzieri himself then suffered a shoulder injury during a match against River Plate, and the club's third-choice goalkeeper, Cristian Muñoz, took his place. When he recovered from his injury Abbondanzieri was once again Córdoba's understudy until February 2002, when Córdoba moved to Italian club Perugia.
Abbondanzieri changed his name in July 2002 from Abbondancieri, a misspelling that arose at Argentinian customs when his grandfather immigrated there, to the original spelling that he uses today. The name change was prompted by Italian citizenship concerns in the case of his transfer to the European football leagues. He was named South American Goalkeeper of the Year in 2003.