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Antonio Barijho
Personal information
Full name	Antonio Daniel Barijho
Date of birth	March 18, 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Boca Juniors (youth coach)
Senior career*
Years	Team
1993–1998	Huracán
1998–2002	Boca Juniors
2002–2003	Grasshopper
2003–2004	Boca Juniors
2004	Saturn Moscow
2005	Banfield
2005	Barcelona SC
2006	Banfield
2006	Independiente
2007–2008	Huracán
2009	Deportivo Merlo
Managerial career
2013–2014	Peñarol Argentino (youth)
2015–2018	Huracán (youth)
2019–	Boca Juniors (youth)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Antonio Daniel Barijho (born 18 March 1977 in Buenos Aires) is a former Argentine football striker.^[1]

Club career

Barijho started his career with Huracán in 1992, he left the club in 1998 and returned in 2007.^[2]

The most successful part of his career was his first spell with Boca Juniors between 1998 and 2002 where he won six major titles, including two Copa Libertadores and three Primera División Argentina titles.

In 2002, he moved to Switzerland to play for Grasshopper Club Zürich in Switzerland where he was part of the 2002-2003 Swiss Super League winning squad. At the end of the season he returned to Boca and won one further league title. he played a total of 102 games for Boca in all competitions scoring 45 goals.^[3]

Nicknamed "Chipi", Barijho has also played football for Banfield and Independiente in Argentina, FC Saturn Moscow Oblast in Russia and Barcelona SC in Ecuador.

After one year of retirement, Barijho accepted a deal to play with recently promoted Deportivo Merlo at the Primera B Nacional.^[4]

Coaching career

After his retirement, Barijho started his coaching career as a youth coach at Club Peñarol Argentino in Bajo Flores, near to where he lived with his family.^[5] At the end of 2014 it was confirmed, that ^[6]

In February 2019, he was hired as a youth coach at Boca Juniors.^[7]