Blas Giunta
![]() Giunta in Platense, c. 1985 | ||||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Full name | Blas Armando Giunta Rodríguez | |||||||||||||
Date of birth | 6 September 1963 | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | |||||||||||||
Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | Boca Juniors (youth coach) | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
1983–1984 | San Lorenzo | 34 | (2) | |||||||||||
1984–1985 | Cipolletti | 0 | (0) | |||||||||||
1985–1986 | Platense | 27 | (2) | |||||||||||
1986–1988 | San Lorenzo | 75 | (4) | |||||||||||
1988–1989 | Murcia | 13 | (0) | |||||||||||
1989–1993 | Boca Juniors | 142 | (8) | |||||||||||
1993–1995 | Toluca | 65 | (0) | |||||||||||
1995–1997 | Boca Juniors | 21 | (0) | |||||||||||
1997 | Ourense | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||
1997–1998 | Defensores de Belgrano | 37 | (2) | |||||||||||
International career | ||||||||||||||
1987–1991 | Argentina | 7 | (0) | |||||||||||
Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
1999–2000 | San Miguel | |||||||||||||
2003–2004 | Estudiantes BA | |||||||||||||
2004–2005 | Deportivo Morón | |||||||||||||
2005–2013 | Almirante Brown | |||||||||||||
2013–2014 | Quilmes | |||||||||||||
2014–2015 | Deportivo Morón | |||||||||||||
2016–2018 | Acassuso | |||||||||||||
2018–2019 | Almirante Brown | |||||||||||||
2020– | Boca Juniors (youth) | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Blas Armando Giunta Rodríguez (born 6 September 1963, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine former footballer who played as a midfielder and current youth coach at Boca Juniors.
Career
[edit]Giunta started his playing career at Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro where he played from 1983 through 1984 and then from 1986 to the end of 1988, there he took part in the famous Los Camboyanos ("The Cambodians") team. He ended his career as a player in 1999 playing for Defensores de Belgrano, playing in between in teams as Cipolleti de Río Negro (1984–1985), Platense (1985–1986), Murcia (España)(1988–1989), Boca Juniors (1989–1993), Toluca (México)(1993–1995), Ourense (España) (1997–1998). He is mostly remembered for his tenacious approach to football and the song Giunta, Giunta, Giunta, huevo, huevo, huevo sung in the stadiums.
He played almost 200 matches with Boca Juniors, and won the Supercopa Sudamericana 1989, Recopa Sudamericana 1990, Copa Masters 1992, and Apertura Championship 1992.
He won the Copa América in 1991 with Argentina's national team.
Honours
[edit]Player
[edit]Boca Juniors
- Primera División: 1992 Apertura
- Supercopa Libertadores: 1989
- Recopa Sudamericana: 1990
- Copa Master: 1992
Argentina
Manager
[edit]Almirante Brown
- Primera B Metropolitana: 2006–07, 2009–10
External links
[edit]![](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/4/4a/Commons-logo.svg/30px-Commons-logo.svg.png)
- Blas Giunta at National-Football-Teams.com
- Blas Armando Giunta (Blas Armando Giunta Rodríguez) – Liga MX stats at MedioTiempo.com (archived) (in Spanish)
- Argentine Primera Statistics at Fútbol XXI at the Wayback Machine (archived 5 May 2012) (in Spanish)
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