Leandro Desábato
{{short description|Argentine footballer}}
{{for|the Argentine football midfielder|Leandro Desábato (footballer, born 1990)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name = Leandro Desábato
| image = Leandro-Desábato-EstudiantesLP-2010.JPG
| image_size = 200px
| caption = Desábato in 2010
| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1979|1|24|df=y}}
| birth_place = Cafferata, Santa Fe, Argentina
| position = Centre back
| currentclub = Almagro (manager)
| youthyears1 =
| youthclubs1 = Estudiantes LP
| years1 = 1997–2018
| years2 = 2001–2002
| years3 = 2002–2006
| years4 = 2006–2007
| clubs1 = Estudiantes LP
| clubs2 = → Olimpo (loan)
| clubs3 = → Quilmes (loan)
| clubs4 = → Argentinos Juniors (loan)
| caps1 = 407
| caps2 = 32
| caps3 = 101
| caps4 = 34
| goals1 = 20
| goals2 = 1
| goals3 = 5
| goals4 = 4
| nationalyears1 = 2011–2012
| nationalteam1 = Argentina
| nationalcaps1 = 5
| nationalgoals1 = 0
| manageryears1 = 2020
| managerclubs1 = Estudiantes LP (caretaker)
| manageryears2 = 2020
| managerclubs2 = Estudiantes LP
| manageryears3 = 2023–
| managerclubs3 = Almagro
}}
Leandro Desábato (born 24 January 1979), nicknamed Chavo, is an Argentine football manager and former player. He is the manager of Almagro.
Club career
Desábato began his professional career in 1997 playing for Estudiantes de La Plata. In 2001, he joined Olimpo and after one season with the club he moved on to play for Quilmes. With both teams he won promotion from the Primera B Nacional (Argentine second division) to the Primera División (first).
In a 2005 Copa Libertadores match, Desábato allegedly racially insulted São Paulo's player Grafite. Desábato was arrested after the match.[http://www.lukor.com/deportes/noticias/0504/14104752.htm Lukor article {{in lang{{!}}es}}] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071222175256/http://www.lukor.com/deportes/noticias/0504/14104752.htm |date=2007-12-22 }} Following his night in jail, Desábato was defended by columnist and former Brazilian international footballer Tostão who stated that the insults were not racist, simply the kind of provocation that has always existed in football.[http://www.terra.com/deportes/articulo/html/fox168839.htm Terra deportes article {{in lang{{!}}es}}]
Desábato left Quilmes in 2006 to join Argentinos Juniors and after a successful season with the club he returned to Estudiantes de La Plata. During the second half of 2008, he was a regular first team player for Estudiantes in their Copa Sudamericana campaign, where they reached the final.
Desábato was a key figure in Estudiantes' 2009 Copa Libertadores championship. He was the only outfield player on the team to play in every minute of every game during the team's run through the tournament, even as his center-back partners changed around him (from Agustín Alayes to Cristian Cellay to Rolando Schiavi).
In 2009 Desábato was chosen in a traditional journalist poll conducted by El País in the South American Team of the Year.
Personal life
Desábato's cousins, Andrés and Leandro Luis, are fellow footballers.{{cite news|title=Anuario Vélez Sarsfield VAVEL 2017: Leandro Desábato, un futbolista de familia|url=https://www.vavel.com/ar/futbol-argentino/2017/12/29/velez/862545-anuario-velez-sarfields-vavel-2017-leandro-desabato-un-futbolista-de-familia.html|accessdate=6 March 2019|work=Vavel|date=29 December 2017}}
Honours
References
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External links
- {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20111003112531/http://www.futbolxxi.com/Futbolista.aspx?ID=3384&SEOFutbolista=Desabato+Leandro Argentine Primera statistics]}} at Fútbol XXI {{in lang|es}}
- {{ESPN FC|44822}}
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{{2009 South American Team of the Year}}
{{2010 South American Team of the Year}}
{{Estudiantes de La Plata managers}}
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Category:Argentine men's footballers
Category:Men's association football defenders
Category:Estudiantes de La Plata footballers
Category:Quilmes Atlético Club footballers
Category:Club Olimpo footballers
Category:Argentinos Juniors footballers
Category:Argentine Primera División players
Category:Primera Nacional players
Category:Copa Libertadores–winning players
Category:Argentina men's international footballers
Category:People from General López Department
Category:Footballers from Santa Fe Province