Marcelo Espina

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Marcelo Espina
Personal information
Full name	Marcelo Fabian Espina
Date of birth	April 28, 1967 (1967-04-28) (age 41)
Place of birth	Capital Federal, Argentina
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+1⁄2 in)
Playing position	midfielder
Club information
Current club	Retired
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1986-1989 1990-1991 1991-1992 1992-1993 1993-1994 1993-1995 1995-1998 1999-2001 2001-2004	Platense Irapuato CF Atlante Lanús Correcaminos Platense Colo-Colo Racing Santander Colo-Colo	109 (25) 035 0(5) 035 0(8) 016 0(1) 023 0(2) 055 (20) 071 0(4)
National team
1994-96	Argentina	15 (1)
Teams managed
2005 2006 2007–2008	Colo-Colo Everton Unión Española
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2 December 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Marcelo Fabian Espina (born April 28, 1967 in Buenos Aires) is a retired Argentine football midfielder. He played for a number of clubs in Argentina and Chile and represented the Argentina national football team. After retiring as a player he had spells as manager of Colo-Colo and Everton in Chile.

Contents 1 Club career 1.1 Titles 2 International career 3 References 4 External links

[edit] 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 CF Atlante. 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.

[edit] Titles

Season	Club	Title
Clausura 1994	Platense	Topscorer Primera Division Argentina
1996	Colo-Colo	Liga Chilena de Fútbol: Primera División
1996	Colo-Colo	Copa Chile
Clausura 1997	Colo-Colo	Liga Chilena de Fútbol: Primera División
1998	Colo-Colo	Liga Chilena de Fútbol: Primera División
2002	Colo-Colo	Liga Chilena de Fútbol: Primera División

[edit] International career

Espina represented the Argentina national football team on 15 occasions between 1994 and 1996 scoring 1 goal^[1].

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Argentine Primera Statistics at FutbolXXI.com (Spanish)
• Marcelo Espina Statistics at MedioTiempo.com (Spanish)
• La Liga Statistics at LFP.es (Spanish)