Diego Alonso
Diego Martín Alonso López (born 16 April 1975 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan football manager and former striker. He played for clubs in Uruguay, Argentina, Spain, Mexico and China during a 16-year playing career, with a notable stint at Atlético Madrid where he scored 22 goals in the 2001–02 season and helped the team win promotion to La Liga. He also played for Valencia, Racing Santander, Málaga, UNAM, Nacional, Shanghai Shenhua, Gimnasia La Plata and Peñarol, and represented Uruguay seven times, including the 1999 Copa América.
From 2011, Alonso started his coaching career, leading Bella Vista, Guaraní, Peñarol and Olimpia before moving to Pachuca in Mexico in 2014. He won the 2016 Clausura and the 2016–17 CONCACAF Champions League with Pachuca. He then coached Monterrey, winning the CONCACAF Champions League again in 2019, becoming the first manager to win the competition with two different clubs. He later led Inter Miami from 2019 to 2021. In December 2021 he became the Uruguay national team manager, guiding them to the 2022 World Cup before resigning after a group-stage exit. In October 2023 he took charge of Sevilla, but was dismissed two months later. In June 2024 he signed with Panathinaikos in Greece, but was sacked in October 2024 while the team sat eighth in the league.
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