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Diego Forlán

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Diego Forlán

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Also known as Diego Forlan, Diego Forlán Corazo, Diego Forlan Corazo

Uruguayan association football player and manager (born 1979)

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Diego Forlán is a Uruguayan former soccer player who played as a forward. His professional career began in 1997. He is also referred to by the pseudonym "Cachavacha". Forlán stands 179 centimeters tall and weighs 78 kilograms. During his career, he scored a total of 209 goals.

According to MusicBrainz records, he is listed with a country of CH and an area of Switzerland. He has 5,482,013 social media followers. His official website is diegoforlan.com.

Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 6 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Male
Origin
Switzerland
Active from
1958-04-19

Discography

DiscogsStream

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
5
Total plays
6

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Diego+Forl%C3%A1n">Read more on Last.fm</a>

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,770x

  2. Global burden of 369 diseases and injuries in 204 countries and territories, 1990–2019: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2019

    · 2020 · cited 15,951x

  3. jModelTest 2: more models, new heuristics and parallel computing

    · 2012 · cited 14,783x

  4. <i>Planck</i> 2018 results

    · 2020 · cited 13,346x

  5. Global, regional, and national incidence, prevalence, and years lived with disability for 354 diseases and injuries for 195 countries and territories, 1990–2017: a systematic analysis for the Global Burden of Disease Study 2017

    · 2018 · cited 10,994x

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Sports profile

Sport
Soccer
Team
_Retired Soccer
Position
Forward
Nationality
Uruguay

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Encyclopedic overview

* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Diego Forlán Corazo (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈdje.ɣo foɾˈlan]; born 19 May 1979) is a Uruguayan football manager and a former player, who played as a forward, and last served as head coach for Uruguayan Segunda División club Club Atlético Atenas. Widely regarded as one of the best forwards of his generation, Forlán was praised for his versatility, intelligence, technique, and shooting abilities. As of 2026, Forlán is a professional tennis player, having made his ATP debut at the 2024 Uruguay Open.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Diego Forlán” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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