Matías Cahais
Personal information
Full name Matías Cahais[1]
Date of birth (1987-12-24) 24 December 1987
Place of birth Morón, Argentina
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Centre back, Left back
Team information
Current team
 Curicó Unido
Number 3
Youth career
El Trebol de Haedo
Boca Juniors
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2008 Boca Juniors 12 (1)
2008–2010 Groningen 11 (1)
2009 → Gimnasia de Jujuy (loan) 15 (1)
2009–2010 → Racing Club (loan) 33 (1)
2010–2014 Racing Club 167 (5)
2014–2015 Universidad Católica 14 (1)
2015–2016 Independiente Medellín 31 (2)
2016–2017 Veracruz 11 (1)
2017–2018 Olimpo 20 (0)
2018–2019 San Martín (T) 4 (0)
2019 Syrianska FC 13 (2)
2019–2021 O'Higgins 68 (5)
2022– Curicó Unido 0 (0)
International career
2007 Argentina U20
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 8 February 2022

Matías Cahais (born 24 December 1987) is an Argentine football central defender currently playing for Curicó Unido.

Club career

Cahais is a product of the Boca Juniors youth team, he made his debut for the first team at the age of 17 on 26 June 2005 in a 0-0 draw with Quilmes Atlético Club.

3 July 2005, Cahais scored his first goal for Boca in a game against Almagro, but it is not recorded as an official goal, as the game was abandoned and the game was awarded to Almagro with a default score of 2-0.

After some offers from European clubs, 21 January 2008, Cahais signed a contract for the Dutch club FC Groningen, initially for a one-year-and-a-half deal, with the possibility of a definitive acquisition for a €2 million price, after the first period. During his presentation ceremony on Groningen, the defender said that, even with the bigger offer from Real Madrid, he opted for signing for a Dutch team because he wanted to make his European career "step for step", and he felt that an Eredivisie club was the right choice to do, as the Dutch league was also the start of the European career of players like Ronaldo, Romário and his compatriot Julio Cruz.[2]

International career

Cahais has represented the Argentina national football team at Under-17 and Under-20 levels. He made 20 appearances for the U-17 team, scoring 4 goals. In 2007, he was selected to play for Argentina at the South American Youth Championship in Paraguay where he scored 2 goals. He also represented the U-20 team at the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Honours

Season Club Title
2006Boca JuniorsRecopa Sudamericana
2007Boca JuniorsCopa Libertadores
2007Argentina Under-20FIFA U-20 World Cup

References

  1. ↑ "FIFA U-20 World Cup Canada 2007 – List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. 5 July 2007. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 31 December 2013.
  2. ↑ "'Real Madrid had eerste optie, Groningen beste keus'". VI.nl. Retrieved 2008-01-21.
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