Matías Cahais

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Matías Cahais
Personal information
Full name	Matías Cahais
Date of birth	December 24, 1987 (1987-12-24) (age 20)
Place of birth	Morón, Argentina
Height	1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Central defender
Club information
Current club	FC Groningen
Number	16
Youth clubs
	Boca Juniors
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2005-2007 2008-	Boca Juniors FC Groningen	13 (1) 9 (1)
National team
2007	Argentina Under-20
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18 April 2008. * Appearances (Goals)

Matías Cahais is an Argentine football central defender. He was born on December 24, 1987, in the city of Morón in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. He recently signed for FC Groningen from Eredivisie.

Cahais is a product of the Boca Juniors youth team, he made his debut for the first team at the age of 17 on June 26, 2005 in a 0-0 draw with Quilmes Atlético Club.

Cahais scored his first goal for Boca on July 3, 2005 in a game against Almagro, but it is not recorded as an official goal, as the game was abandoned and the game was awarded to Almagro with a default score of 2-0.

Cahais has represented the Argentina national football team at Under-17 and Under-20 levels. He made 20 appearances for the U-17 team, scoring 4 goals. In 2007 he was selected to play for Argentina at the South American Youth Championship in Paraguay where he scored 2 goals. He also represented the U-20 team at the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

After some offers from European clubs, on January 21, 2008, Cahais signed a contract for the Dutch club FC Groningen, initially for a one-year-and-a-half deal, with the possibility of a definitive acquisition for a €2 million price, after the first period. During his presentation ceremony on Groningen, the defender said that, even with the bigger offer from Real Madrid, he opted for signing for a Dutch team because he wanted to make his European career "step for step", and he felt that an Eredivisie club was the right choice to do, as it was also the start of the European career of players like Ronaldo, Romário and his compatriot Julio Cruz. ^[1]

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Season	Club	Title
2006	Boca Juniors	Recopa Sudamericana
2007	Boca Juniors	Copa Libertadores
2007	Argentina Under-20	FIFA U-20 World Cup

v • d • e FC Groningen – current squad 1 Van Loo • 2 De Roover • 3 Sankoh • 4 Kruiswijk • 5 Stenman • 6 Matthijs • 7 Meerdink • 8 Levchenko • 9 Berg • 10 Lovré • 11 Powel • 12 Švejdík • 13 Van de Laak • 14 Nijland • 15 Holla • 16 Cahais • 17 Matavž • 18 van der Laan • 19 Özturk • 20 Kolder • 21 Hiariej • 22 Fledderus • 25 Metaj • 26 Luciano • - Jansen • Manager: Jans

[edit] References

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[edit] External links

• Statistics at Guardian StatsCentre