Diego Forlán
Uruguayan association football player and manager (born 1979)
Diego Martín Forlán Corazo (born 19 May 1979) is a Uruguayan professional football manager and former player who is the head coach of the Uruguay national team and the Uruguay under-20 national team. Nicknamed "Cachavacha", Forlán is regarded as one of the best forwards of his generation, renowned for his tactical intelligence, playmaking abilities, and clinical finishing.
Born into a prominent football family, Forlán started his career in his native Uruguay as a youth player for the Peñarol and Danubio academies, before joining Argentine club Independiente in 1997. After four successful years, he moved to Manchester United in 2001, where he won the Premier League and the FA Cup with the club. In 2004, he joined Villarreal, winning the Pichichi Trophy and European Golden Shoe with 25 goals in his first season. After two more successful seasons with Villarreal, during which he won the UEFA Intertoto Cup and reached the semi-finals of the UEFA Champions League in the club's first-ever season in the tournament, Forlán later moved to Atlético Madrid in 2007, winning both awards again in 2009 with 32 goals, becoming the first player to win the Pichichi Trophy twice since Ronaldo in 1997 and 2004. With Atlético, he also won the UEFA Europa League, of which he scored the decisive goal in the final, and the UEFA Super Cup with Atlético Madrid, both in 2010. In 2011, he joined Italian club Inter Milan, before moving to Internacional in Brazil the following year. After several spells in Japan with Cerezo Osaka, back in Uruguay with his boyhood club Peñarol, in India with Mumbai City and in Hong Kong with Kitchee, Forlán officially announced his retirement from professional football in 2019.
Forlán also had a distinguished international career with Uruguay, scoring 36 goals in 112 appearances across three FIFA World Cup (2002, 2010, 2014) and three Copa América (2004, 2007, 2011) tournaments.
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