Hugo Benjamín "Negro" Ibarra (born 1 April 1974), is an Argentine

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and former player who played as a

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. He last managed

Boca Juniors Club Atlético Boca Juniors () is an Argentine professional sports club based in La Boca, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The club is best known for its men's professional Association football, football team which, since its promotion in 1913 ...

. With 324 matches played, 10 goals scored and 15 titles won with Boca Juniors,Se cumplen 10 años del último partido de Ibarra en Boca
on TyC Sports, 14 May 2020 Ibarra is considered the best right back in the history of the club.

Playing career

Born in Pirané Department, northern

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, Ibarra went to

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to start playing in Colón. It was a second division team when he started playing professionally in 1993, but two years later the team got promoted to first division. His performance called

' attention, and he was transferred to the club he would late refer to as "my home". After three successful seasons in Boca, Ibarra moved to

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. Because he did not have a European passport, Ibarra was loaned back to Boca Juniors after playing his first season in Portuguese

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. Porto loaned him to French Monaco FC a year later, and then to Spanish

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. Ibarra played six matches for

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, including Copa América 1999. While in Monaco, the team reached

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finals, beating in its way such teams as

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and Chelsea, to later lose 3–0 to his former club Porto, club that owned him at that moment. In July 2005, after some difficult negotiations due to the economic crisis in Argentina, Hugo Ibarra went back to Boca Juniors, his last team. On 18 April 2007, he got back to

, as Argentina's captain, to play a friendly match against

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. In September 2010, he announced his retirement from professional football.

Coaching career

At the end of 2011, Ibarra was hired in a youth coordinator role at

' youth academy. From the 2015 season, Ibarra became assistant coach of Boca's reserve team under manager Rolando Schiavi. In 2021, he began in a new role where he would be the nexus between amateur football and the Football Council in Boca Juniors. On 17 August 2021, Boca's reserve team manager,

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, was appointed first-team manager on an interim basis, while Ibarra and Mauricio Serna took charge of the reserve team, also on an interim basis. Ibarra was named interim manager of Boca in July 2022, after Battaglia was sacked. On 29 November, he was confirmed as manager for the upcoming season. On 28 March 2023, he was sacked by the club.

Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

Boca Juniors * Primera División (5): 1998 Apertura, 1999 Clausura, 2005 Apertura, 2006 Clausura, 2008 Apertura *

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2003 2003 was designated by the United Nations as the International Year of Fresh water, Freshwater. In 2003, a Multi-National Force – Iraq, United States-led coalition 2003 invasion of Iraq, invaded Iraq, starting the Iraq War. Demographic ...

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

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2005 2005 was designated as the International Year for Sport and Physical Education and the International Year of Microcredit. The beginning of 2005 also marked the end of the International Decade of the World's Indigenous Peoples, Internationa ...

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Monaco *

runner-up: 2003–04 Porto * Portuguese Supercup (1):

Argentina *

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runner-up:

Manager

Boca Juniors * Primera División (1):

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References

External links

* at Fútbol XXI * *
Guardian statistics
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