Juan Ángel Krupoviesa (born 16 April 1979) is a retired Argentine
footballer
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who played as a
full back and current interim assistant coach of
Boca Juniors.
Club career
Born in
Tucumán, Krupoviesa had his professional debut with
Estudiantes de La Plata, where he played from 1999 until 2005. In that same year, he moved to
Boca Juniors. Krupoviesa won five titles in his first two years at Boca, but in October 2006 he suffered a serious injury that kept him out of the team for the remainder of the
2006–07 season.
In January 2008, he joined
Marseille
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on loan, but he returned to Boca in July 2008.
With 31 years of age, Krupoviesa joined
Arsenal de Sarandí
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on a free transfer for the beginning of the
2010–11 season.
Coaching career
In 2014, Kropoviesa re-joined his former club
Estudiantes as a youth coach at the club.
In March 2018, it was reported that Krupoviesa would leave his position at
Estudiantes in June 2018 to join
Almagro as an assistant coach to
Sebastián Battaglia. Failing to secure promotion on May 11, Battaglia was fired before Krupoviesa ever managed to take up his new role. Krupoviesa instead continued at
Estudiantes, however, in a different role. He was appointed assistant coach to newly appointed first team manager at Estudiantes,
Leandro Benítez, in June 2018. He left Estudiantes in February 2019.
In the beginning of 2020, Battaglia was appointed manager of
Boca Juniors' reserve team, with Krupoviesa becoming his assistant.
Con Battaglia a la cabeza, la reserva comenzó la pretemporada
lanumero12.com.ar, 3 January 2020
Honours
References
External links
Argentine Primera statisticsStatistics
at Guardian Stats Centre
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1979 births
Living people
Footballers from San Miguel de Tucumán
Men's association football fullbacks
Argentine men's footballers
Estudiantes de La Plata footballers
Boca Juniors footballers
Copa Sudamericana-winning players
Chacarita Juniors footballers
Olympique de Marseille players
Arsenal de Sarandí footballers
Argentine expatriate men's footballers
Argentine Primera División players
Ligue 1 players
Expatriate men's footballers in France
Argentine people of Polish descent
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in France