Diego Benaglio
Swiss footballer (born 1983) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Diego Orlando Benaglio (born 8 September 1983) is a Swiss former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Diego Orlando Benaglio[1] | ||
Date of birth | (1983-09-08) 8 September 1983 (age 40)[1] | ||
Place of birth | Zürich, Switzerland | ||
Height | 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)[2] | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Youth career | |||
1993–1997 | Spreitenbach | ||
1997–1999 | FC Baden | ||
1999–2002 | Grasshoppers | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2002–2005 | VfB Stuttgart | 0 | (0) |
2003–2005 | VfB Stuttgart II | 54 | (0) |
2005–2008 | Nacional | 69 | (0) |
2008–2017 | VfL Wolfsburg | 259 | (0) |
2015 | VfL Wolfsburg II | 1 | (0) |
2017–2020 | Monaco | 26 | (0) |
Total | 409 | (0) | |
International career | |||
2001 | Switzerland U19 | 3 | (0) |
2002 | Switzerland U20 | 1 | (0) |
2003–2005 | Switzerland U21 | 15 | (0) |
2006–2014 | Switzerland | 61 | (0) |
2012 | Switzerland Olympic | 4 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
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He spent most of his professional career with Stuttgart and Wolfsburg in Germany's top flight, the Bundesliga, winning the 2009 league championship and appearing in almost 300 competitive matches with the latter club. He also played three years in Portugal earlier in his career, with Nacional.
Benaglio earned 61 caps for Switzerland, representing the nation in three World Cups and Euro 2008.