Fabricio Coloccini

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Fabricio Coloccini
Personal information
Full name	Fabricio Coloccini
Date of birth	January 22, 1982 (age 25)
Place of birth	Córdoba, Argentina
Nickname	Colocho
Playing position	Defender
Club information
Current club	Deportivo de La Coruña
Number	5
Youth clubs
to 1998	Argentinos Juniors
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1998-1999 1999-2000 2000-2001 2001-2002 2002-2003 2003-2004 2004-	Boca Juniors A.C. Milan San Lorenzo (loan) Deportivo Alavés (loan) Atlético Madrid Villarreal CF Deportivo de La Coruña	2 (1) 1 (0) 19 (3) 33 (6) 27 (0) 32 (1) 57 (1)
National team2
2003-	Argentina	25 (1)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 25 November 2006. 2 National team caps and goals correct as of 30 June, 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Fabricio Coloccini (born January 22, 1982 in Córdoba, Argentina) is an Argentine football defender who currently plays for the club Deportivo de La Coruña in the Spanish First Division.

Contents 1 Club career 2 National team 3 Titles 4 External links

[edit] Club career

Coloccini started his career in the youth team of Argentinos Juniors, but made his professional debut in 1998 with Boca Juniors. In 1999, at the end of the Apertura championship, he moved to A.C. Milan. In 2001 he was loaned to San Lorenzo where he helped the team to win the 2001 Clausura tournament. In 2002 he was loaned to Deportivo Alavés and then to Atlético Madrid later in the same year, before moving to Villarreal CF in 2003 (again on loan) and after finally playing a match for Milan, he moved to Deportivo de La Coruña in 2004.

Coloccini was the center of a controversy between Boca Juniors and A.C. Milan because the transfer from Argentina to Italy wasn't agreed between the clubs. Instead, Milan arranged terms with Coloccini's father (also a former football player), who exercised his parental rights to remove the minor from Argentina. After that, FIFA ordered Milan to pay Boca compensation.

[edit] National team

Coloccini was part of the Argentine youth team that won the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship, as well as part of the gold medal winning Argentine team at the 2004 Summer Olympics. He also participated in the 2005 Confederations Cup, scoring one goal in the Confederations Cup game against Cameroon. In the 2006 World Cup, he played in two games, as a substitute against the Netherlands and as a starter against Germany in quarterfinals.

Olympic medal record
Competitor for  Argentina
Men's Football
Gold	2004 Athens	Team Competition

[edit] Titles

• 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship

• Primera Division Argentina Apertura 1998: Boca Juniors

• Primera Division Argentina Clausura 1999: Boca Juniors

• Primera Division Argentina Clausura 2001: San Lorenzo

• Olympic Gold Medal 2004

[edit] External links

• Portrait

	Argentina squad - 2006 FIFA World Cup Quarter-finalists
1 Abbondanzieri | 2 Ayala | 3 Sorín | 4 Coloccini | 5 Cambiasso | 6 Heinze | 7 Saviola | 8 Mascherano | 9 Crespo | 10 Riquelme | 11 Tévez | 12 Franco | 13 Scaloni | 14 Palacio | 15 Milito | 16 Aimar | 17 Cufré | 18 Rodríguez | 19 Messi | 20 Cruz | 21 Burdisso | 22 González | 23 Ustari | Coach: Pekerman

Deportivo de La Coruña - Current Squad
1 Aouate | 2 Manuel Pablo | 3 Pablo Álvarez | 4 Duscher | 5 Coloccini | 6 De Guzmán | 7 Bodipo | 8 Sergio | 9 Taborda | 10 Arizmendi | 11 Riki | 12 Adrián | 13 Munúa | 14 Andrade | 15 Capdevila | 16 Juan Rodriguez | 18 Lopo | 19 Barragán | 20 Cristian | 21 Valerón | 22 Juanma | 23 Estoyanoff | 24 Verdú | 25 Filipe | 26 Iago | 35 Rivera | Manager: Caparrós