Diego Omar Dabove (born 18 January 1973) is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a

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. He is the current manager of Huracán.

Playing career

Born in Banfield, Dabove was a

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youth graduate and was a part of the first team squad for one year. After leaving in 1994, he went on to resume his career in the lower leagues, representing

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, Cañuelas, Ferro Carril Oeste de General Pico, Sporting Club de Laboulaye and

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. Dabove retired at the age of just 27 due to a

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injury.

Managerial career

Immediately after retiring, Dabove joined

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's staff as a goalkeeping coach at Los Andes. He moved to former club Lanús in 2001, under the same role, and was also an interim manager of the main squad for one match in 2003. After leaving Lanús in 2004, Dabove worked as a goalkeeping coach at Boca Juniors in 2004 before returning to Lanús in 2005. After a short period at Huracán, he worked under

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(two times), River Plate, Xerez, Independiente and Tigre. On 8 July 2013, Dabove was appointed manager of Racing de Olavarría, but resigned on 15 October. He returned to his previous goalkeeping coach role in the following year at Racing Club, before being named under the same role at the Bahrain national team. After leaving Bahrein in June 2016, Dabove was named goalkeeping coach of

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before taking the same role

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at the end of the year. In 2017, he was named coach of the youth categories of Godoy Cruz. On 13 December 2017, Dabove was appointed manager of Godoy Cruz's main squad, replacing Mauricio Larriera. On 8 December of the following year, after qualifying the club to the

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, he left the club after his contract was due to expire, and took over

five days later. Dabove resigned from Argentinos on 12 January 2021, and was named manager of San Lorenzo seven days later. On 10 May, after the latter's elimination from the

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, he asked to leave. On 18 August 2021, Dabove was appointed manager of Campeonato Brasileiro Série A side

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, being the club's eighth foreign manager (fourth Argentine) and the first foreigner since 1979. He was sacked on 6 October, after being in charge for only six matches.

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