Pedro Troglio

Pedro Troglio

Personal information
Full name	Pedro Antonio Troglio
Date of birth	(1965-07-28) 28 July 1965
Place of birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height	1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Banfield (manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1983–1988	River Plate	59	(3)
1988–1989	Verona	32	(1)
1989–1991	Lazio	40	(1)
1991–1994	Ascoli	106	(13)
1994–1996	Avispa Fukuoka	56	(20)
1997–2002	Gimnasia La Plata	124	(4)
2002–2003	Villa Dálmine	31	(4)
Total		448	(46)
International career
1987–1990	Argentina	21	(2)
Managerial career
2004–2005	Godoy Cruz
2005–2007	Gimnasia La Plata
2007–2008	Independiente
2008–2010	Cerro Porteño
2010–2011	Argentinos Juniors
2011–2016	Gimnasia La Plata
2016	Tigre
2017–2018	Universitario
2018–2019	Gimnasia La Plata
2019–2021	CD Olimpia
2022	San Lorenzo
2022–2024	CD Olimpia
2025	Instituto
2025–	Banfield
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Pedro Antonio Troglio (born 28 July 1965) is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is the current manager of Banfield.

During his career as a footballer, Troglio played for River Plate, as well as at the 1990 FIFA World Cup with Argentina, where he scored a goal against the USSR.

He then spent the main part of his career in Italy, playing four seasons in Serie A (for Hellas Verona, Lazio and Ascoli) and two in Serie B.

During the final years of his career, Troglio played for Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata and Villa Dálmine (a fourth division team where he played alongside fellow veterans José Basualdo, Roberto Monserrat, Mario Pobersnik and Raúl "Pacha" Cardozo).

Troglio then went on to coach Godoy Cruz de Mendoza in Primera B Nacional but he left in the middle of the tournament to take on in March 2005 a demoralized Gimnasia and helped keep the team in the Primera.^[1] The next season, he led them to 2nd place in the Apertura tournament, equalling their highest finish ever.

In June 2006 his #21 jersey was retired in Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata, being this the first number ever retired in an Argentine football club.

After the successful 2005 campaign, Gimnasia has performance declined markedly. Following a series of defeats in national and international competitions, including a 7:0 derby defeat to Estudiantes de La Plata, Troglio resigned in April 2007, and was temporarily replaced with former aide Ricardo Kuzemka. Nevertheless, Troglio's status with fans did not deteriorate strongly, with most press articles blaming club president Juan José Muñoz on the poor performances of the team.

In 2007, after Jorge Burruchaga's departure of Independiente, Troglio was hired to manage this institution. In March 2008, after an erratic season start, Troglio was sacked and replaced by Miguel Angel Santoro.

In 2009, he won the campeonato Apertura with Cerro Porteño. On 30 May 2010 Argentinos Juniors hired the former Cerro Porteno coach to replace Claudio Borghi.^[2]

He stepped down as manager of Argentinos on 18 September 2011 after a bad start to the 2011–12 Apertura.^[3]

In 2019 he agreed to move to Honduras to manage CD Olimpia, the club with most titles in the country. He arrived to a team experiencing a 6-tournament drought, having won their last title in the 2015–16 Clausura. In 2019 Pedro and his team won the 2019–20 Clausura, ending a three-and-a-half-year stretch without winning the cup.

On June 2, 2022, he re-signed with former club CD Olimpia after a short period with Argentine club San Lorenzo.

^[4]

As of match played 28 March 2026

Managerial record by team and tenure

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Godoy Cruz		10 January 2005	27 March 2005	8	3	3	2	14	15	−1	037.50
Gimnasia La Plata		2 April 2005	3 April 2007	85	38	16	31	116	127	−11	044.71
Independiente		1 July 2007	24 March 2008	26	11	5	10	43	31	+12	042.31
Barcelona		1 July 2008	30 June 2009	41	15	12	14	41	36	+5	036.59
Cerro Porteño		1 July 2009	5 June 2010	59	29	13	17	83	64	+19	049.15
Argentinos Juniors		6 June 2010	18 September 2011	51	15	21	15	51	49	+2	029.41
Gimnasia La Plata		6 October 2011	14 March 2016	174	73	52	49	206	161	+45	041.95
Tigre		23 March 2016	19 March 2017	26	8	10	8	32	28	+4	030.77
Universitario		22 March 2017	30 June 2018	58	23	21	14	89	73	+16	039.66
Gimnasia La Plata		1 July 2018	17 February 2019	25	8	6	11	22	32	−10	032.00
C.D. Olimpia		1 July 2019	31 December 2021	116	73	24	19	234	87	+147	062.93
San Lorenzo		1 January 2022	14 April 2022	10	1	5	4	8	10	−2	010.00
C.D. Olimpia		2 June 2022	31 December 2024	131	80	37	14	258	106	+152	061.07
Instituto		1 January 2025	9 April 2025	13	4	2	7	13	15	−2	030.77
Banfield		29 April 2025	present	30	12	4	14	33	37	−4	040.00
Total				837	378	231	228	1,243	869	+374	045.16

River Plate

• Argentine Primera División: 1985–86
• Copa Libertadores: 1986
• Intercontinental Cup: 1986
• Copa Interamericana: 1986

Avispa Fukuoka

• Japan Football League: 1995

Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata

• Argentine Primera División runner-up: 2001-02

Villa Dálmine

• Primera C Metropolitana runner-up: 2002–03

Argentina

• FIFA World Cup runner-up: 1990

Cerro Porteño

• Paraguayan Primera División: 2009

C.D. Olimpia

• Liga Nacional de Fútbol Profesional de Honduras: 2019 Apertura, 2020 Apertura, 2021 Clausura, 2021 Apertura, 2022 Apertura, 2023 Clausura
• CONCACAF League: 2022

Wikimedia Commons has media related to Pedro Troglio.

• Pedro Troglio at National-Football-Teams.com
• Pedro Troglio at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)
• Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI (in Spanish)