Hugo Ibarra

Hugo Benjamín "Negro" Ibarra (born 1 April 1974), is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a right back. He last managed Boca Juniors.

Hugo Ibarra
Personal information
Full name Hugo Benjamín Ibarra
Date of birth (1974-04-01) 1 April 1974
Place of birth El Colorado, Formosa, Argentina
Height 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s) Right back
Youth career
Colón
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–1998 Colón 140 (8)
1998–2001 Boca Juniors 85 (2)
2001–2005 Porto 20 (0)
2002–2003 → Boca Juniors (loan) 25 (4)
2003–2004 → Monaco (loan) 25 (0)
2004–2005 → Espanyol (loan) 31 (1)
2005–2010 Boca Juniors 124 (3)
Total 450 (18)
International career
1998–2007 Argentina 11 (0)
Managerial career
2011–2014 Boca Juniors (youth)
2015–2021 Boca Juniors II (assistant)
2021–2022 Boca Juniors II
2022–2023 Boca Juniors
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

With 324 matches played, 10 goals scored and 15 titles won with Boca Juniors,[1] Ibarra is considered the best right back in the history of the club.[2][1][3]

Playing career

Born in Pirané Department, northern province of Formosa, Ibarra went to Santa Fe Province to start playing in Colón. It was a second division team when he started playing professionally in 1993, but two years later the team got promoted to first division. His performance called Boca Juniors' attention, and he was transferred to the club he would late refer to as "my home".

After three successful seasons in Boca, Ibarra moved to Europe. Because he did not have a European passport, Ibarra was loaned back to Boca Juniors after playing his first season in Portuguese FC Porto. Porto loaned him to French Monaco FC a year later, and then to Spanish RCD Espanyol.

Ibarra played six matches for Argentina national football team, including Copa América 1999. While in Monaco, the team reached UEFA Champions League finals, beating in its way such teams as Real Madrid and Chelsea, to later lose 3–0 to his former club Porto, club that owned him at that moment.

In July 2005, after some difficult negotiations due to the economic crisis in Argentina, Hugo Ibarra went back to Boca Juniors, his last team. On 18 April 2007, he got back to Argentina national football team, as Argentina's captain, to play a friendly match against Chile.

In September 2010, he announced his retirement from professional football.

Coaching career

At the end of 2011, Ibarra was hired in a youth coordinator role at Boca Juniors' youth academy.[4] From the 2015 season, Ibarra became assistant coach of Boca's reserve team under manager Rolando Schiavi.[5]

In 2021, he began in a new role where he would be the nexus between amateur football and the Football Council in Boca Juniors.[6] On 17 August 2021, Boca's reserve team manager, Sebastián Battaglia, was appointed first-team manager on an interim basis, while Ibarra and Mauricio Serna took charge of the reserve team, also on an interim basis.[7]

Ibarra was named interim manager of Boca in July 2022, after Battaglia was sacked.[8] On 29 November, he was confirmed as manager for the upcoming season.[9] On 28 March 2023, he was sacked by the club.

Managerial statistics
As of match played 25 March 2023
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Boca Juniors II Argentina 17 August 2021 7 July 2022 40 21 12 7 84 46 +38 052.50
Boca Juniors 8 July 2022 28 March 2023 36 20 7 9 44 33 +11 055.56
Total 76 41 19 16 128 79 +49 053.95

Honours

Player

Boca Juniors

Monaco

Porto

Argentina

Manager

Boca Juniors

References
  1. Se cumplen 10 años del último partido de Ibarra en Boca on TyC Sports, 14 May 2020
  2. Boca y el estigma Ibarra: once nombres en once años, La Nación, 22 Feb 2021
  3. «el Negro» Ibarra cumple hoy 42 años by Sofía Zavala, 21 Apr 2020
  4. Declaraciones de Angelici, Macri y Hugo Ibarra, soyboca.com.ar, 21 November 2011
  5. FACUNDO TABORDA FUE CITADO POR EL FLACO SCHIAVI PARA LA PRETEMPORADA CON LA RESERVA DE BOCA, rtpemultimedios.com, 11 January 2015
  6. Riquelme, cerca de sumar a otro histórico de Boca a la estructura del fútbol, infobae.com, 12 February 2021
  7. Sebastián Battaglia es el nuevo director técnico de Boca y en su reemplazo en Reserva asumirá la dupla conformada por Hugo Ibarra y Chicho Serna, tntsports.com.ar, 17 August 2021
  8. "Boca e Ibarra llegaron a un acuerdo por su continuidad" (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 28 November 2022.
  9. "Hugo Ibarra sigue en Boca: las caras nuevas que tendrá en 2023 y en qué refuerzos piensa" [Hugo Ibarra remains at Boca: the new faces he will have in 2023 and who he thinks as an addition] (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 29 November 2022. Retrieved 11 December 2022.
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