Américo Gallego

Américo Gallego
Gallego, 2012
Personnel
Surname	Américo Rubén Gallego
birthday	April 25, 1955
place of birth	Morteros ,  Argentina
position	midfield player
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1974-1980	Newell's Old Boys	262 (25)
1980-1988	River Plate	180 (10)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1975-1982	Argentina	73 0(3)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1994	River Plate
2000-2001	River Plate
2002-2003	CA Independiente
2003-2004	Newell's Old Boys
2005-2007	Deportivo Toluca
2007-2008	UANL Tigres
2009-2010	CA Independiente
2011	CSD Colo-Colo
2012-2013	CA Independiente
1 Only league games are given.

Américo Rubén "El Tolo" Gallego (born April 25, 1955 in Morteros ) is a former Argentine football player. He completed 73 games for the Argentine national soccer team and took part with this in the soccer world championships 1978 and 1982 .

Career

Club career

Américo Gallego, born on April 25, 1955 in Morteros, began his active career as a football player with the Newell's Old Boys from Rosario . At the club, where he started the year after the championship in 1974, he played with other Argentinian football greats at the time such as Jorge Valdano , Juan Ramón Rocha or Ricardo Giusti , but did not win a title with the Newell's Old Boys and left the club in 1980 towards Buenos Aires and joined River Plate , the association of the rich of Buenos Aires. After a few unsuccessful years at the beginning of the eighties , Américo Gallego won several titles with River Plate, where Mario Kempes , Enzo Francescoli and Nery Pumpido were also active at the time, with his club towards the end of his career. Gallego won his first national championship title in the 1985/86 season, when the Argentine football championship was ten points ahead of his previous club, Newell's Old Boys. In the following season River Plate could not repeat this success, but they were successful in the Copa Libertadores , the highest competition for club teams in South America and won the final against América de Cali first 2-1 at the Estadio Olímpico Pascual Guerrero in Colombia and then at home with Estadio Monumental 1-0. Two years later, Américo Gallego ended his active career.

National team

Américo Gallego came from 1975 to 1982 to 73 appearances in the Argentine national football team . He scored three goals in these 73 games. With the national team of his home country he took part in the football world championships in 1978 and 1982. In 1978, thanks to the support of the junta , which manipulated some games, managed to win the title under coach César Luis Menotti at the World Cup at home . Américo Gallego was used by Menotti in all seven Argentina World Cup games , but he did not score. Four years later in Spain it looked similar for Gallego. Again he was part of the Menottis tribe. He only missed one game at this World Cup when he had to sit on the bench in the second round match against Brazil (1: 3). Since this game was the last Argentina at the world tournament in Spain, Américo Gallego completed his last international match in the intermediate round at 1: 2 against eventual world champions Italy , because after the World Cup he ended his career in the national team.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career as a soccer player, Américo Gallego devoted himself to the profession of coach. He had his first coaching stadium in 1994 with his last club as a player, River Plate. After only one year as an interim coach and winning the Apertura, he coached the team again from 2000 to 2001, where he won the Apertura and this time also the Clausura, but after a year left the club and henceforth the coaching office of CA Independiente from Avellaneda , an industrial suburb of Buenos Aires, dressed. There, too, he won the aperture. At his next coaching station, his hometown club Newell's Old Boys, he won this competition again. Despite his numerous victories in the Apertura, he has so far been denied a real championship title as a coach in Argentina . After two positions in Mexico at Club Toluca and UANL Tigres , where Gallego once won the Apertura, he was again coach of CA Independiente in 2009, but where he was dismissed in 2010 after persistent unsuccessfulness. After Diego Cagna , the then coach of the Chilean runner-up in 2010 CSD Colo-Colo, resigned for sporting reasons, Gallego was hired as coach on February 23, 2011, but was dismissed only a few months later. Américo Gallego last worked for Independiente Avellaneda again from 2012 to 2013.

Web links

• Américo Gallego in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Coach statistics from Gallego
• Américo Gallego in the database of fussballdaten.de
• Américo Gallego in the database of FIFA (English)