In December 2018, Argentine football manager, Mauricio Pochettino, won his 100th Premier League match as manager of Tottenham after a late win against Burnley.
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He became the first Tottenham manager to reach this milestone and the third quickest Premier League manager to achieve the feat with a single club.
Pochettino has won two trophies during his five-year stint at the club – the 1990–91 national championship and the 1992 Clausura.
The former player is also the current head coach of Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain.
In 1994, at age 22, he was transferred to newly-promoted La Liga club Espanyol, helping establish their top-flight status and won the 2000 Copa del Rey, their first trophy in 60 years.
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In 2001, he joined Ligue 1 club Paris Saint-Germain, and had a stint with Bordeaux, before returning to Espanyol in 2004, winning another Copa del Rey in 2006.
He was capped 20 times for the Argentina national team and played at the 1999 Copa América and 2002 FIFA World Cup.
After retiring as a player, Pochettino began his managerial career at Espanyol in 2009. He left the club in 2012 after poor results and financial disputes.
In 2013, he was appointed at Premier League club Southampton, leading them to an eighth-place finish in the 2013–14 season – equalling their highest finish in the Premier League.
He then signed for Tottenham Hotspur in 2014, finishing as league runner-up in the 2016–17 season and UEFA Champions League finalist in 2019.
He was soon dismissed after a string of poor results, and in 2021, joined Paris Saint-Germain as head coach.
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