Matías Cahais

Matías Cahais
	Cahais with Curicó Unido in 2023
Personal information
Full name	Matías Cahais
Date of birth	24 December 1987 (age 36)
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
2005–2008	Boca Juniors
2008–2010	Groningen
2009	→ Gimnasia de Jujuy (loan)
2009–2010	→ Racing Club (loan)
2010–2014	Racing Club
2014–2015	Universidad Católica
2015–2016	Independiente Medellín
2016–2017	Veracruz
2017–2018	Olimpo
2018–2019	San Martín (T)
2019	Syrianska FC
2019–2021	O'Higgins
2022–	Curicó Unido
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
2006	Boca Juniors	Recopa Sudamericana
2007	Boca Juniors	Copa Libertadores
2007	Argentina Under-20	FIFA U-20 World Cup

References

^ "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.
^ "'Real Madrid had eerste optie, Groningen beste keus'". VI.nl. Retrieved 2008-01-21.

External links

Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI (in Spanish) at the Wayback Machine (archived 31 August 2012)
Statistics at Guardian StatsCentre at the Wayback Machine (archived 23 August 2012)
Matías Cahais at Soccerway

[FIFA-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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