Rodolfo Cardoso

The title of this article is ambiguous. Further meanings are listed under Rodolfo Cardoso (disambiguation) .

Rodolfo Cardoso
Rodolfo Cardoso (2013)
Personnel
Surname	Rodolfo Esteban Cardoso
birthday	17th October 1968
place of birth	Azul ,  Argentina
size	178 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	EAC Azul
	Estudiantes de La Plata
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1986-1989	Estudiantes de La Plata	58 0(6)
1989-1993	FC 08 Homburg	125 (15)
1993-1995	Sc freiburg	63 (28)
1995-1996	Werder Bremen	32 0(2)
1996-2004	Hamburger SV	111 (17)
1998	→  Boca Juniors  (loan)	11 0(1)
1998-1999	→ Estudiantes de la Plata (loan)	34 0(5)
2002-2004	Hamburger SV (Amat.)	7 0(1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1997-2000	Argentina	8 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2008	Hamburger SV U19
2009-2014	Hamburger SV II
2011	→ Hamburger SV (co-trainer; interim)
2011	→ Hamburger SV (interim)
2011	→ Hamburger SV (co-trainer; interim)
2013	→ Hamburger SV (interim)
2014	Hamburger SV Youth (technical trainer)
2014-2015	Hamburger SV U16
2015	→ Hamburger SV II (interim)
2018	Hamburger SV (assistant coach)
1 Only league games are given.

Rodolfo Esteban Cardoso (born October 17, 1968 in Azul ) is a former Argentine football player and current coach .

Career as a player

In the club

Cardoso started playing soccer at EAC Azul in Argentina and moved to the youth department of Estudiantes de La Plata . In the 1989/90 season he moved to Germany to the then Bundesliga club FC 08 Homburg . At the end of this season, FC Homburg was relegated; Cardoso played with the club for the next three years in the 2nd Bundesliga .

In the summer of 1993 he signed a contract with SC Freiburg , who had just been promoted to the Bundesliga for the first time under coach Volker Finke and was looking for an attacking midfielder. In his first season, relegation could only just be averted; Cardoso played consistently well and scored ten goals this season. The following year, the team surprisingly reached third place in the table. In this 1994/95 season, the game designer scored 16 goals in 30 games, including two in a 5-1 home win against Bayern Munich .

After these performances, several clubs became aware of Cardoso, so that he moved to Werder Bremen for the 1995/96 season. However, due to injuries (Cardoso dropped out for several weeks during the preparatory period due to an adductor strain and a hip contusion), he was not used as usual. After 15 months in Bremen, he wanted to make a fresh start in October 1996 when he signed with Hamburger SV , who was trained by Felix Magath . He was initially loaned out and committed in May 1997. But here, too, he could no longer build on his scoring threat from his time in Freiburg; in 28 games he scored only two goals. The new coach Frank Pagelsdorf no longer planned with Cardoso and sorted him out.

Therefore, Cardoso was awarded to the highly indebted Argentinian club Boca Juniors during the winter break of the 1997/98 season . After a few months later a sale to the Argentinians was considered, the club could not pay the transfer fee required by HSV. As a result, Cardoso was loaned to Estudiantes de La Plata after only six months at Boca Juniors . Cardoso was also offered for sale to the Estudiantes club management after a year by the Hamburg sports director Holger Hieronymus . But even this club could not finance the transfer. Ultimately, attempts were unsuccessful to refer Cardoso to clubs in Mexico and Greece.

He then returned to HSV. Surprisingly and unexpectedly, he developed into a high performer and public favorite. In his comeback season (1999/2000) he played 28 games, scored eight goals and led the team into qualifying for the Champions League. He played for HSV for another five years, but was plagued by many injuries. He underwent a total of four operations, three of them on his left knee. In 2000 he reached third place with HSV and fourth place in the table in 2003. During this time he also won his only title in his career, the League Cup in 2003, when they defeated Borussia Dortmund 4-2 in the final . After he had only nine appearances in the professional team due to several muscle fiber tears in the 2003/04 season, he switched to the Hamburg amateur team in March 2004. There he still had six missions.

Cardoso played a total of 220 Bundesliga games and scored 47 goals.

National team

The midfielder had eight appearances for the national team of Argentina and was a participant in the 1997 Copa America in Bolivia .

Career as a coach

After retiring in 2004, Cardoso headed the Norderstedt soccer school near Hamburg . At Hamburger SV in 2008 he initially acted as a coach for the U-19s. In January 2009 he was the coach of the club's second team , also a youth team in the U-23 area, but which was also active in men's football in the third- tier Regionalliga Nord . After the dismissal of professional head coach Armin Veh on March 13, 2011, he took over the post of assistant coach for Michael Oenning on an interim basis until the end of the season , who himself had taken over as a previous assistant coach for Armin Vehs in the Bundesliga. For the new season Cardoso returned to the U-23.

Despite the lack of a coaching license, Cardoso became an interim coach of the professional team after Michael Oenning's dismissal in September 2011. In his first game he led HSV on September 23, 2011 against VfB Stuttgart to their first win of the season. After the DFB had not approved Cardoso's further activity as head coach due to the lack of a football instructor license, he became assistant coach for a game at the side of the sports director and new interim coach Frank Arnesen in October 2011 .

From the beginning of June 2013, Cardoso took part - in addition to his work as a youth coach - in the DFB's football instructor course at the Hennes-Weisweiler Academy in Cologne , which he successfully completed in April 2014. On September 17, 2013, he interrupted the course to temporarily look after the first division team of Hamburger SV as an interim coach with U-19 coach Otto Addo after Thorsten Fink's dismissal . Together lost coaching team, although the northern derby against Werder Bremen with 0: 2, but the team led with a 1: 0 win against SpVgg Greuther Fürth in the second round of the DFB Cup . His contract for the second team, which expired at the end of the season, was not extended.

In August of the same year, however, Cardoso returned to HSV as a technical coach; He worked in the youth sector with the age groups U-15 to U-19. On November 12, 2014 he took over the U-16. From March 31, 2015 Cardoso trained the second team of HSV again. He took over the post from Daniel Petrowsky, who could not look after the team for health reasons, on an interim basis until the end of the season .

He then returned to the U16s, but after six defeats in six games in the 2015/16 season, Cardoso was given a leave of absence in October 2015. He then worked in the scouting department.

On February 6, 2018 Cardoso became assistant coach of the professional team under Bernd Hollerbach . On March 12, 2018, Hollerbach and Cardoso were released after HSV slipped seven points behind the relegation place to 17th place in the table eight match days before the end of the season.

Private life

In 2006 Cardoso was sentenced to a fine of 9,000 euros for negligent homicide . He had taken the right of way from a motorcyclist (who was driving too fast); he died in hospital four days later.

Cardoso lives with his family in Hamburg .

Success as a player

• League Cup:
  • 1 × winner 2003 with Hamburger SV
• Bundesliga:
  • 2 × 3rd place in 1995 with SC Freiburg and 2000 with Hamburger SV
  • 1 × 4th place in 2003 with Hamburger SV

Web links

• Rodolfo Cardoso in the database of weltfussball.de
• Rodolfo Cardoso in the database of fussballdaten.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Performance data from Cardoso on www.transfermarkt.de
2. ↑ "Cardoso only danced one summer at HSV", welt.de
3. ↑ "Cardoso only danced one summer at HSV", welt.de
4. ↑ The man nobody wants, Hamburger Morgenpost, June 29, 1999
5. ↑ The HSV separates from Michael Oenning ( Memento of the original from September 23, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
6. ↑ Cardoso enjoyed a guest appearance at HSV , Mitteldeutsche Zeitung, September 24, 2011
7. ↑ Frank Arnesen is the new team leader at HSV ( Memento of the original from October 12, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
8. ↑ 60. The football teacher training course starts in Hennef
9. ↑ DFB: Gala in Bonn: 24 new soccer teachers receive license , April 3, 2014, accessed on March 24, 2015.
10. ↑ The HSV separates from Thorsten Fink ( memento of the original from September 17, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
11. ↑ U23: Zinnbauer will take over from Cardoso from summer ( Memento of the original from February 23, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
12. ↑ New orientation in training and campus construction ( memento of the original from August 27, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of Hamburger SV, published and accessed on August 27, 2014 
13. ↑ Rodolfo Cardoso new U16 trainer ( memento of the original from November 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
14. ↑ Cardoso will take over the U23s until the end of the season ( Memento of the original from April 2, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , Website of Hamburger SV, accessed on March 31, 2015 
15. ↑ Hamburger Abendblatt: HSV takes youth coach Cardoso on leave - successor has been determined , accessed on October 6, 2015
16. ↑ The supervisory board determines - but how long does it last? , Abendblatt.de, February 6, 2018, accessed on February 6, 2018.
17. ↑ Cardoso from now on in the coaching staff. In: hsv.de. Hamburger SV, accessed on February 6, 2018 . 
18. ↑ Hamburger SV: Christian Titz takes over the post from Bernd Hollerbach , March 12, 2018, accessed on March 12, 2018.
19. ↑ 9,000 euros fine for Cardoso