Fernando Gago

Fernando Gago
Gago with Real Madrid in 2010
Personal information
Full name Fernando Rubén Gago[1]
Date of birth (1986-04-10) 10 April 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth Ciudadela, Argentina
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[2]
Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team
Guadalajara (Manager)
Youth career
1991–2004 Boca Juniors
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2006 Boca Juniors 61 (1)
2007–2012 Real Madrid 92 (1)
2011–2012Roma (loan) 30 (1)
2012–2013 Valencia 13 (0)
2013Vélez Sársfield (loan) 3 (0)
2013–2019 Boca Juniors 85 (5)
2019–2020 Vélez Sarsfield 14 (0)
Total 298 (8)
International career
2003 Argentina U17 5 (0)
2005 Argentina U20 15 (0)
2008 Argentina U23 9 (0)
2007–2017 Argentina 61 (0)
Managerial career
2021 Aldosivi
2021–2023 Racing Club
2024– Guadalajara
Medal record
Men's Football
Representing  Argentina
FIFA World Cup
Runner-up 2014 Brazil
Copa América
Runner-up 2015 Chile
Runner-up 2007 Venezuela
Summer Olympics
Gold medal – first place 2008 Beijing Team Competition
FIFA U-17 World Cup
Bronze medal – third place 2003 Finland
FIFA World Youth Championship
Winner 2005 Netherlands U-20 Team
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Fernando Rubén Gago (Spanish pronunciation: [feɾˈnando ˈɣaɣo];[3] born 10 April 1986) is an Argentine football manager and former player. He is the current head coach of Liga MX club Guadalajara.

During his 16-year club career, limited by multiple serious injuries, Gago played as a defensive midfielder and deep-lying playmaker for Boca Juniors, Real Madrid, Roma, Valencia and Vélez Sarsfield.[4][5]

A full international from 2007 to 2017, Gago represented Argentina at the 2014 FIFA World Cup and at the Copa América in 2007, 2011 and 2015, as well as winning a gold medal at the 2008 Olympics.

As a manager, he led Aldosivi and Racing Club in the Argentine Primera División, winning two super cup honours before being appointed as a head coach of Mexican side Guadalajara in December 2023.

  1. ^ "2014 FIFA World Cup Brazil: List of players: Argentina" (PDF). FIFA. 14 July 2014. p. 2. Archived from the original (PDF) on 4 April 2019. Retrieved 11 May 2019.
  2. ^ "Fernando Gago". bocajuniors.com. Archived from the original on 9 April 2018. Retrieved 2 October 2017.
  3. ^ Surname in isolation: [ˈgaɣo].
  4. ^ "Todas las lesiones de Fernando Gago: perdió más de tres años de carrera por sus lesiones" [All of Fernando Gago's injuries: he lost more than three years of his career through injuries] (in Spanish). Minuto Uno. 1 February 2020. Retrieved 10 May 2022.
  5. ^ "Fernando Gago se retira; el futbolista de cristal al que las lesiones destrozaron" [Fernando Gago retires; the footballer made of glass who was destroyed by injuries] (in Spanish). 10 November 2020. Retrieved 10 May 2022.