Javier Horacio Pinola (born 24 February 1983) is an Argentine professional football coach and a former player who played as a left-back.

Born in Olivos, Buenos Aires Province, Pinola began playing as a senior with Chacarita Juniors in the Argentine Primera División.

[3] After solid displays in his first two seasons in the Bundesliga, adding the conquest of the German Cup in his second, to which he contributed with two goals and two assists in six games, Pinola joined Nürnberg on a permanent basis.

Pinola continued to be a defensive mainstay for the Franconians in the following campaigns, renewing his contract first until 2013[5] then 2015[6] but leaving eventually at the end of 2014–15 after rejecting a new offer.

[9] In 2016, following a string of good performances, head coach Gerardo Martino called up Pinola for 2018 World Cup qualifiers against Chile and Bolivia.