Diego Quintana

Diego Quintana

Personal information
Full name	Diego Jesús Quintana
Date of birth	(1978-04-24) April 24, 1978
Place of birth	Rosario, Argentina
Height
Position(s)	Right midfielder Striker
Team information
Current team	Free agent
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1996–2001	Newell's Old Boys	140	(18)
2001–2004	Real Murcia	47	(2)
2004	Instituto de Cordoba	17	(0)
2005	Barcelona SC	?	(?)
2005–2011	Skoda Xanthi F.C.	137	(7)
International career
1997	Argentina U20	6	(1)
2000	Argentina U23	2	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:42, 2 December 2008 (UTC)

Diego Jesús Quintana (born 24 April 1978 in Rosario) is an Argentine football player who spent his career mostly playing for Skoda Xanthi F.C. in Greece. He also holds Italian citizenship.

Quintana started his career in 1996 with Newell's Old Boys where he played 140 times, scoring 18 goals. After three seasons with Real Murcia of Spain he returned to Argentina to play for newly promoted Instituto de Cordoba in the Apertura 2004 tournament. After a brief spell with Barcelona Sporting Club of Ecuador in 2005 he joined Skoda Xanthi F.C. of Greece.

He scored the winning goal at the FIFA Youth World Cup in 1997 against Uruguay in front of 62,000 spectators at the Shah Alam Stadium in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Personal life

He plays guitar and has performed in several shows with Aggelos Mourvatis' Music Lab in Xanthi, Greece. In 2008, he performed with a group of his classmates from Aggelos Mourvatis' Music Lab the Skoda Xanthi Anthem during the team's 2008/09 squad presentation in front of approximately 4000 people. Cites The Ramones as one of his favorite bands. Enjoys Stelios Kazantzidis's music.

External links

• Guardian statistics
• (Spanish) Argentine Primera statistics