Marcelo Espina

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Espina and the second or maternal family name is Barrano.
Marcelo Espina
Personal information
Full name Marcelo Fabian Espina Barrano
Date of birth (1967-04-28) 28 April 1967
Place of birth Capital Federal, Argentina
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 8 12 in)
Playing position midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
19861989 Platense 109 (25)
19901991 Irapuato 33 (5)
19911992 Atlante 35 (5)
19921993 Lanús 16 (1)
19931994 Correcaminos 23 (2)
19941995 Platense 55 (20)
19951998 Colo-Colo 84 (22)
19992001 Racing Santander 71 (4)
20012004 Colo-Colo 75 (18)
National team
19941996 Argentina 15 (1)
Teams managed
2005 Colo-Colo
2006 Everton Viña
20072008 Unión Española
2010 Platense
2011 Acassuso
2012 Platense

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Marcelo Fabian Espina Barrano (born April 28, 1967 in Buenos Aires) is a retired is an Argentine-born football midfielder. He played for a number of clubs in Argentina and Chile and represented the Argentina national football team. In the present, he is anchorman of sports channel ESPN Latin America.

Club career

Espina bagan his career at Platense in the Primera Division Argentina in 1986. In 1989 he moved to Mexico where he played for Irapuato and then Atlante F.C.. In 1992 he returned to Argentina to play for Lanús, but after only one season he returned to Platense.

In 1995 he joined Colo-Colo in Chile, in his first spell at the club he was part of 3 title winning teams. In 1999 he left Colo-Colo to play for Racing Santander of La Liga in Spain. After 2 seasons with Racing, Espina returned to Colo-Colo where he retired in 2004.

Titles

International career

Espina represented the Argentina national football team on 15 occasions between 1994 and 1996 scoring 1 goal.[1] He also captained national team in 1995.

Managerial career

After retiring as a player he had spells as manager of Colo-Colo and Everton in Chile. In 2010 he joined Platense of the regionalised 3rd division of Argentine football.

References

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