Diego Mateo

Diego Mateo
Personal information
Full name	Diego Mateo Alustiza
Date of birth	7 August 1978 (age 46)
Place of birth	Roldán, Argentina
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s)	Defensive midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
1996–2000	Newell's Old Boys
2000–2001	Lecce
2001–2004	Racing Santander
2005	Valladolid
2005–2006	San Lorenzo
2006–2007	Hércules
2007–2009	Gimnasia Jujuy
2009–2017	Newell's Old Boys
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Diego Mateo Alustiza (born 7 August 1978) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a defensive midfielder.

Football career

Born in Roldán, Santa Fe, Mateo started his professional career in 1996 with Newell's Old Boys, where he made over 100 overall appearances, scoring four goals in the top division. In 2000, he joined U.S. Lecce in Italy, but left the club after appearing in only one fourth of the Serie A games during the season, with the Apulia side narrowly avoiding relegation.

In 2001 Mateo moved to Spain, where he would spend a great portion of his career: first, he was instrumental in helping Racing de Santander return to La Liga by scoring four times in 32 matches, and was relatively used in the following two top flight campaigns. In January 2005 he returned to the second division, playing for Real Valladolid.

Mateo returned to Argentina for a spell at San Lorenzo de Almagro, then went again to Spain and its second level after signing with Hércules CF. He then played two years in his country with Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy but, after the team's relegation in 2009, the 31-year-old returned to his first club Newell's.

Honours

Newell's Old Boys

Primera División: 2013 Final

External links

Argentine League statistics^[usurped] (in Spanish)
Diego Mateo at BDFutbol
Biography at Fútbol 91 Archived 2007-10-30 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
Diego Mateo at Soccerway
Football-Lineups profile