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Leonardo Biagini

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Leonardo Biagini
Personal information
Full name Leonardo Ángel Biagini[1]
Date of birth (1977-04-13) 13 April 1977 (age 49)[1]
Place of birth Arroyo Seco, Argentina
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[1]
Position Striker
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–1995 Newell's Old Boys 33 (5)
1995–1997 Atlético Madrid 50 (4)
1997–1998 Mérida 27 (1)
1998–2003 Mallorca 68 (13)
2002 → Portsmouth (loan) 8 (2)
2003–2004 Rayo Vallecano 28 (7)
2004–2006 Sporting Gijón 46 (13)
2006–2007 Albacete 25 (5)
2007–2008 Arsenal Sarandí 13 (3)
Total 298 (53)
International career
1993 Argentina U17 3 (2)
1995 Argentina U20 5 (2)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Image Argentina
FIFA U-20 World Cup
Winner1995 Qatar
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Leonardo Ángel Biagini (born 13 April 1977) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a striker.

Most of his career was spent in Spain where he represented six clubs in 12 years, totalling 145 matches and 18 goals in La Liga and adding 99 appearances and 25 goals in the Segunda División; he was part of Atlético Madrid's squad when they won the double in 1996. He returned to his country in 2007.

Biagini won the 1995 FIFA World Youth Championship with Argentina.

Career

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Born in Arroyo Seco, Santa Fe, Biagini started his career at Newell's Old Boys in the Primera División, in 1993.[2] In 1995, he was a main part of the Argentina under-20 team that won the FIFA World Cup in Qatar.[3]

Biagini signed for Atlético Madrid at just 18, being an important attacking player as the capital club claimed the double in his first year.[4] He was mainly and regularly used as a substitute for compatriot Juan Esnáider and Kiko during his spell[5] and, after a poor second season, moved to fellow La Liga side CP Mérida in the summer of 1997, where he would be relegated.[6]

Biagini then spent five seasons with RCD Mallorca where, safe for his first where he scored a career-best 11 goals (also helping the team to the final of the 1998–99 UEFA Cup Winners' Cup by scoring the 1–0 winner against Chelsea in the last-four's second leg, in a 2–1 aggregate victory),[7][8][9] he would be scarcely utilised due to several injury problems,[7] also serving a six-month loan at England's Portsmouth in the First Division,[10] where he found the net against Millwall[11] and Wimbledon.[12]

Biagini returned to Spain and Mallorca for the 2002–03 campaign, being part of the squad that won Copa del Rey – even though he did not appear in any matches – and being subsequently released. After four additional years in the Segunda División, in representation of three teams,[13] he returned home and joined Arsenal de Sarandí.[14]

Honours

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Atlético Madrid

Mallorca

Arsenal Sarandí

Argentina

Individual

References

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  1. 1 2 3 "Leonardo Ángel BIAGINI". El Mundo (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  2. 1 2 "El argentino Biagini lamentó la muerte del DT serbio Radomir Antic" [Argentina's Biagini mourned death of Serbian HC Radomir Antić]. El Litoral (in Spanish). 8 April 2020. Retrieved 26 September 2026.
  3. 1 2 Farías, Gustavo (28 April 2012). "Zorros del desierto: a 17 años del Mundial de Qatar" [Desert foxes: 17th anniversary of the Qatar World Cup]. La Voz del Interior (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2026.
  4. 1 2 3 G. Fuente, Chema (25 May 2016). "20 años del 'Doblete' del Atlético de Liga y Copa" [20th anniversary of Atlético's League and Cup 'Double']. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  5. ↑ García Argota, Diego (21 July 2018). "Qué fue de… 25. Leo Biagini" [What became of… 25. Leo Biagini] (in Spanish). Esto Es Atleti. Retrieved 26 September 2026.
  6. ↑ Martín Fuentenebro, Pablo (24 May 2017). "De Primera a casi desaparecer (I)" [From Primera to nearly disappearing (I)]. Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  7. 1 2 "Real Mallorca 1–0 Chelsea". The Guardian. 22 April 1999. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  8. ↑ Segurola, Santiago (20 May 1999). "El Mallorca pierde con orgullo" [Mallorca lose proudly]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 January 2016.
  9. ↑ Cruz, Xisco (13 September 2002). "La historia de la maldición que azota a Biagini" [The story of the curse that haunts Biagini]. Última Hora (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  10. ↑ "Pompey's Biagini hope". BBC Sport. 13 February 2002. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
  11. ↑ "Portsmouth 3–0 Millwall". BBC Sport. 9 March 2002. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  12. ↑ "Portsmouth 1–2 Wimbledon". BBC Sport. 12 March 2002. Retrieved 24 November 2013.
  13. ↑ "Leo Biagini ficha por el Albacete por dos temporadas" [Leo Biagini signs for Albacete for two seasons]. Marca (in Spanish). 3 July 2006. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
  14. ↑ "Qué fue de... Biagini" [What happened to... Biagini] (in Spanish). La Liga. 16 October 2014. Retrieved 26 September 2026.
  15. ↑ Forteza, Gabriel (22 August 2023). "Se cumplen 25 años del primer título en la historia del RCD mallorca [sic]" [25th anniversary of the first title in RCD Mallorca's history]. Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 26 September 2026.
  16. ↑ Viola, Willy; Rodríguez, Santiago (16 December 2014). "Historia de los Sudamericanos sub20" [History of the under20 South Americans] (in Spanish). Uruguayan Football Association. Retrieved 28 March 2020.
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