Mauro Darío Jesús Cetto (born April 14, 1982, in Rosario) is an Argentine retired footballer who played as a defender. He lastly worked as the sporting director of Rosario Central.[2]

Mauro Cetto
Cetto with Toulouse in 2011
Personal information
Full name Mauro Darío Jesús Cetto[1]
Date of birth (1982-04-14) April 14, 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth Rosario, Argentina
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Centre back
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2000–2002 Rosario Central 15 (0)
2002–2008 Nantes 110 (3)
2007–2008Toulouse (loan) 24 (0)
2008–2011 Toulouse 75 (7)
2011–2013 Palermo 10 (0)
2012Lille (loan) 7 (0)
2013–2015 San Lorenzo 43 (5)
2016–2017 Rosario Central 4 (1)
International career
2000–2002 Argentina U20 21 (0)
Managerial career
2017–2019 Rosario Central (sporting director)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

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Cetto won the 2001 FIFA World Youth Championship with the Argentina Under-20 team. He moved to France in 2002, spending five seasons with FC Nantes before to become a mainstay at Toulouse FC, where he played from 2007 to 2011.

In June 2011 he accepted to join Serie A club Palermo on a free transfer. His Italian experience turned out to be unfortunate in his first season, as Matías Silvestre and Giulio Migliaccio (a central midfielder adapted as a centre back) were preferred to him as starting centre backs. On January 26, 2012, he was sent on loan to Lille until the end of the season, with an option for the team from Northern France to sign him permanently.[3]

Cetto returned to Palermo after Lille opted not to acquire the player permanently, and was called up for the summer pre-season camp where he met new head coach Giuseppe Sannino, who then decided to keep him in the rosanero team for the 2012–13 season. As a result, he played the full 90 minutes (pairing with youngster Milan Milanović) in the first competitive game of the season, a 3–1 win against Cremonese.

On Thursday, January 24, 2013, San Lorenzo de Almagro from Argentina, a Primera A team, signed Mauro Cetto for 2+12 years.

Personal life

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Mauro Cetto holds both Argentine and Italian nationality.[4][5]

Honours

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San Lorenzo

References

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  1. ^ "FIFA Club World Cup Morocco 2014: List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. December 15, 2014. p. 6. Archived from the original (PDF) on July 11, 2015.
  2. ^ Mauro Cetto prend sa retraite et devient directeur sportif de Rosario Central‚ lequipe.fr, 8 June 2017
  3. ^ "CETTO CEDUTO AL LILLE" [CETTO SOLD TO LILLE]. US Città di Palermo. January 26, 2012. Retrieved January 27, 2012.
  4. ^ "Mauro Cetto". Ligue1 (in French). Retrieved August 5, 2023.
  5. ^ "Mauro CETTO". unfp.org. Retrieved August 5, 2023.
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