Óscar Tabarez

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Óscar Tabarez
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Óscar Tabárez (2017)
Personnel
Surname Óscar Washington Tabarez Silva
birthday March 3, 1947
place of birth MontevideoUruguay
position Defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1967-1971 South America
1972-1973 Sportivo Italiano
1975 Montevideo Wanderers
1976 Centro Atlético Fénix
1976-1977 Puebla FC
1977-1979 Bella Vista
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1980-1983 Bella Vista
1983 Uruguay (Olympic team)
1984 Danubio FC
1985-1986 Montevideo Wanderers
1986-1987 Uruguay (Juniors)
1987 Club Atlético Peñarol
1988 Deportivo Cali
1988-1990 Uruguay
1991-1993 Boca Juniors
1994-1995 Cagliari Calcio
1996-1997 AC Milan
1997-1998 Real Oviedo
1998-1999 Cagliari Calcio
2000-2001 Velez Sarsfield
2006-2020 Uruguay
1 Only league games are given.

Óscar Washington Tabarez Silva (born March 3, 1947 in Montevideo ) is a former Uruguayan soccer player who now works as a soccer coach . From 2006 to 2020 he was the coach of the Uruguayan national soccer team .

Career

player

Tabárez began his career in 1967 with Sud América , where he played until 1971. He then played from 1972 to 1973 at Sportivo Italiano . In 1975 he played with the Montevideo Wanderers and in 1976 with Centro Atlético Fénix . Between 1976 and 1977 he played for Puebla FC and between 1977 and 1979 for Bella Vista , where he finally ended his career as a professional footballer.

Trainer

Tabárez began his coaching career in 1980 with Bella Vista, where he played until 1979 and worked as a coach until 1983. In 1983 he became the coach of the Uruguayan Olympic football team. He also supervised the Uruguayan selection at the Pan American Games in 1983 and led them to win the gold medal in Caracas . 1984 followed a station as a coach of Danubio FC . From 1985 to 1986 he was the coach of the Montevideo Wanderers, until he finally coached the Uruguayan youth team in 1986 and 1987. In 1987 he was a coach at Club Atlético Peñarol . With the Aurinegros he won the Copa Libertadores in the same year . In 1988 he coached Deportivo Cali .

From 1988 to 1990 he coached the Uruguayan national soccer team for the first time . He made his debut as Uruguayan national coach on September 27, 1988 against the selection of Ecuador. At the 1990 World Cup , his team failed in the second round to hosts Italy. From 1991 to 1993 he was the coach of Boca Juniors , with whom he also became champions in 1992 . In 1994 he became the first coach of a European soccer club team when he coached Cagliari Calcio until 1995. He then coached AC Milan from 1996 to 1997 . In 1997 he moved to the Spanish first division club Real Oviedo , whom he coached until 1998. In the years 1998 to 1999 he trained again Cagliari Calcio. In 2000 he went back to South America, more precisely to Argentina, where he coached Vélez Sársfield until 2001 .

This was followed by a longer hiatus as a coach until he became the coach of the Uruguayan national soccer team for the second time on February 13, 2006, which he still coaches today. His first international coaching game in his second term was the 1-0 win over Northern Ireland on May 21, 2006.

Tabarez at the 2018 World Cup

As coach of the national team, he celebrated his greatest successes with a fourth place at the 2010 soccer World Cup and winning the 2011 Copa America . After the 2010 World Cup, he extended his expiring contract with the Uruguayan Football Association until 2014. The 5-0 win in the World Cup qualification against Jordan in November 2013 was Tabarez's 100th international match since he was responsible for the coaching bench in 2006 had taken up second term. At that time he had 47 wins, 29 draws, 24 defeats and a goal difference of 175: 112 as a record of his activities. A total of 134 international matches were recorded for him in both national coaching stages on November 14, 2013. At the 2014 World Cup, to which he led his team as group fifth in the South America qualification group over the two relegation games against Jordan, he reached the second round with the Celeste. There his team failed because of Colombia. Even after the World Cup, he continues to act as the Uruguayan national coach. In the first two international friendly matches after the World Cup on September 5 and 8, 2014 against Japan and South Korea, however, he was represented in the head coach role by the coaching team Celso Otero and Mario Rebollo , as he was due to the recovery phase due to a planned and successful operation Could not exercise office. Both have been assistant coaches since taking office in 2006. After the 2010 World Cup, he was represented in a friendly international match against Angola held a few weeks later by the then U-20 national coach Juan Verzeri . On October 3, 2014, Tabárez extended his contract as national coach of Uruguay until the 2018 World Cup in Russia. At the Copa América 2015 , he led the Celeste in another continental tournament . After the Copa he was suspended for three official games, so that assistant coach Celso Otero had to replace him in the first three qualifying games for the 2018 World Cup.

At the Copa America 2015 he reached the quarter-finals with Uruguay, at the Copa America 2016 the team was eliminated in the preliminary round. Nevertheless, despite his illness from Guillain-Barré syndrome , Tábarez remained in office and qualified with the team for the 2018 World Cup . There he led his team into the quarter-finals, where they were eliminated with a 2-0 draw against France. There he used a walking aid .

As a result of COVID-19 pandemic Tabárez became the 1 April 2020 by the Uruguayan Football Association ON released provisionally after more than 14 years as a coach; This measure was taken for economic reasons and affects all Uruguayan association coaches, around 400 people. Tabarez was the longest serving national football coach at the time; after his release this became Joachim Löw .

successes

Awards

  • South America's Coach of the Year: 2010, 2011
  • World national coach : 2011
  • On January 30, 2012, Tabárez received the UNESCO title of “Master of Sport” in Paris. The basis for this is his contribution to using sport as a “means of social integration”.

Web links

Commons : Óscar Tabárez  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. Uruguay anuncia lista definitiva de convocados para disputa de Panamericanos (Spanish) of September 23, 2011, accessed on August 26, 2013
  2. ^ Marcos Silvera Antúnez: Club Atlético Peñarol - 120, “Directores Técnicos”, Ediciones El Galeón, Montevideo 2011, p. 192f - ISBN 978-9974-553-79-8
  3. DT - OSCAR TABÁREZ (Spanish) on auf.org.uy, accessed on June 13, 2015
  4. Tabarez extended to kicker.de from September 11, 2010 until 2014
  5. Los 100 partidos de la era Tabárez - Feliz centenario (Spanish) from November 14, 2013, accessed on November 14, 2013
  6. Otero y Rebollo dirigen a Uruguay (Spanish) at www.auf.org.uy, accessed on September 8, 2014
  7. Oscar Tabárez FIRMO contrato (Spanish) on www.auf.org.uy, accessed on October 3, 2014
  8. skysports.com: "Edinson Cavani banned over Copa America clash"
  9. Uruguay is fighting for a sick coach. In: n-tv , June 30, 2018. Accessed July 1, 2018.
  10. Coach Oscar Tabarez: Uruguay's maestro. In: Der Tagesspiegel. Retrieved July 7, 2018 .
  11. https://web.de/magazine/sport/fussball/nationalmannschaft/joachim-loew-rueckt-entlassung-oscar-tabarez-dienstaeltesten-nationaltrainer-34570302
  12. FIFA Confederations Cup Brazil 2013 fifa.com. Retrieved June 3, 2018
  13. Tabárez, mejor técnico de 2011 - Al maestro con cariño (Spanish), accessed on January 2, 2012
  14. Tabárez será premiado por la UNESCO - El elegido (Spanish) on www.futbol.com.uy from January 20, 2012, accessed on July 20, 2012