Martín Demichelis
Age: 45 (born 20 December 1980)
Club: RB Leipzig
Role: Head coach
Country of birth: Argentina
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Born in Justiniano Posse, near Cordoba, in Argentina in 1980, Demichelis joined one of the country’s biggest teams, River Plate, at the age of 18. He scored on his first-team debut in September 2001 and went on to make 51 appearances for Los Millonarios before Bayern swooped in summer 2003.
Nicknamed ‘Micho’, Demichelis struggled with injury in his first Bundesliga season and made just 14 top-flight outings, but was a first-team regular in six of his subsequent seven campaigns at the club, able to play either at centre-back or in defensive midfield.
The 6’0” (1.84m) no-nonsense battler won four Bundesliga titles and four DFB Cups before departing in 2010 having scored 15 goals in 252 competitive outings for the Reds.
Watch: Demichelis' goal for Bayern against Energie Cottbus in May 2009
