Aníbal Samuel Matellán (born 8 May 1977) is an Argentine former

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defender. He last played for Argentinos Juniors.

Career

Matellán started his career with the Argentine giants

Boca Juniors Club Atlético Boca Juniors () is an Argentine sports club headquartered in La Boca, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The club is mostly known for its professional football team which, since its promotion in 1913, has always played in the A ...

, after several years of success with the club. During his time there, Boca won six major titles in five seasons: three league titles, two

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titles and one Intercontinental Cup. In 2001, he was transferred to the

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side,

FC Schalke 04 Fußballclub Gelsenkirchen-Schalke 04 e. V., commonly known as FC Schalke 04 (), Schalke 04 (), or abbreviated as S04 (), is a professional German football and multi-sports club originally from the Schalke district of Gelsenkirchen, North Rhi ...

, and helped the team to win the DFB-Pokal in 2002. After three seasons with the Germans, Matellán returned to Boca where he won another major title, the

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. During his two spells with Boca, Matellán made 132 appearances for the club scoring three goals. In 2005, he signed for the Spanish side

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. However, after playing for them for just one season, he moved to the new La Liga team, Gimnàstic. After the 2006–07 season, he moved back to Argentina, signing for Arsenal de Sarandí. Matellán headed one of the most important goals of his career on 30 November 2007 in the first leg of the

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final against América to help give Arsenal a valuable 3–2 lead going into the second leg. After three years with Arsenal de Sarandí, it was announced on 14 June 2010 that he would move to the Mexican side

San Luis FC San Luis Fútbol Club was a Mexican professional football club from the city of San Luis Potosí, Mexico. The club was founded in 1957, when they were known as Santos (saints). The team's nickname of ''Tuneros'', a reference to the tuna fruit, was ...

After retirement

On 17 December 2018, Matellán returned to

in the role as a Sports Secretary. He left his position at the end of 2019.

Honours

Boca Juniors *

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: 1998 Apertura, 1999 Clausura, 2000 Apertura *

2000 File:2000 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Protests against Bush v. Gore after the 2000 United States presidential election; Heads of state meet for the Millennium Summit; The International Space Station in its infant form as seen from ...

2001 The September 11 attacks against the United States by Al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror, were a defining event of 2001. The United States led a Participants in ...

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...

* Intercontinental Cup:

Schalke 04 * DFB-Pokal: 2001–02 *

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Arsenal de Sarandí *

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Suruga Bank Championship The J.League Cup / Copa Sudamericana Championship was an annual intercontinental football match held in Japan, contested by the reigning champions of the J.League Cup and the Copa Sudamericana. The tournament was previously officially called the ...

2008 File:2008 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Lehman Brothers went bankrupt following the Subprime mortgage crisis; Cyclone Nargis killed more than 138,000 in Myanmar; A scene from the opening ceremony of the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing; ...

References

External links

Argentine Primera statistics
at Fútbol XXI
BDFA prolife
1977 births Living people Footballers from Buenos Aires Province Argentine men's footballers Argentine sportspeople of Spanish descent Men's association football defenders Boca Juniors footballers FC Schalke 04 players Getafe CF footballers Gimnàstic de Tarragona footballers Arsenal de Sarandí footballers San Luis F.C. players Argentinos Juniors footballers Argentine Primera División players Bundesliga players La Liga players Liga MX players Argentine expatriate men's footballers Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Germany Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico Expatriate men's footballers in Spain {{Argentina-footy-defender-1970s-stub