Cristian Díaz appointed Deportivo Madryn head coach for 2026 | OneFootball

The club said in a statement that Cristian Díaz, 48, has been appointed Deportivo Madryn head coach for the 2026 Primera Nacional season.

He becomes the club’s fifth manager since their arrival in Argentina’s second tier, following his most recent spell in Paraguayan football.

Around 80 percent of the squad that contested two promotion finals in 2025 will remain for the next campaign.

Born on 12 May 1976, Díaz was a left-back who spent more than five years in Europe with Udinese, Mallorca and Levante.

In Argentina he won the 1995 Supercopa Sudamericana with Independiente, the 2007 Copa Sudamericana and 2008 Suruga Bank with Arsenal de Sarandí, and earned promotion with Huracán in 2006/2007 before retiring in 2009.

He began coaching Independiente in 2012 after Ramón Díaz departed, and oversaw a 5-4 win at Boca Juniors in La Bombonera that ended a 33-match unbeaten run.

He took charge of Deportes Iquique in 2013, guiding the club to its first ever Copa Libertadores group stage, then managed Universidad San Martín de Perú, Olimpo de Bahía Blanca and Quilmes.

His most successful stint came with Santa Tecla, winning El Salvador’s Apertura 2018, then at Jorge Wilstermann, where he won the 2019 Clausura and reached the 2020 Libertadores last 16.

He later coached Royal Pari and The Strongest, also securing Libertadores qualification, and now joins a project aiming to be contenders again in Primera Nacional 2026.

Source: SuperDepor.com