Antonio Alzamendi

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Antonio Alzamendi
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Personnel
Surname Antonio Alzamendi Casas
birthday June 7, 1956
place of birth DuraznoUruguay
size 175 cm
position attack
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1971-1973 Wanderers de Durazno
1974-1976 Policial de Durazno
1976-1988 South America
1978-1982 Independiente 202 (75)
1982-1983 River Plate 27 0(7)
1983 Nacional Montevideo
1983-1985 Tecos 45 (11)
1985 Peñarol 28 (13)
1986-1988 River Plate ?? (21)
1988-1990 CD Logroñés 62 (15)
1990 Deportivo Textil Mandiyú 9 0(0)
1991 Rampla Juniors
1991 Racing de Durazno
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1978-1990 Uruguay 31 0(6)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1992 Wanderers Club (Durazno)
1993 Club Central (Durazno)
1994 Club Santa Bernardina
1996-1997 CD Logroñés (assistant coach)
1998 Club Sportivo Cienciano
1998 Central Español
1999 Rampla Juniors
1999-2000 League selection Segunda División (Uruguay)
2001 El Tanque Sisley
2001 Canberra Cosmos FC
2002-2003 Deportivo Maldonado
2003-2004 Centro Atlético Fénix
2005 CSD Comunicaciones
2008 Club Sport Ancash
2009 Total Chalaco Fútbol Club
1 Only league games are given.

Antonio Alzamendi Casas (born June 7, 1956 in Durazno , Uruguay ) is a former Uruguayan football player and current coach .

Player career

society

The 1.75-meter-tall, former right-winger, who was named South America's Footballer of the Year in 1986 by El País newspaper , began his career in his hometown of Durazno with Wanderers de Durazno . About the intermediate stations at Policial de Durazno he came to the first division club Sud América . From there his way led him to the neighboring country Argentina to Independiente . Here he became Argentinian champion in his first year. For the Argentines he scored 75 goals in a total of 202 games. From 1982 to 1983 there was a short stay at River Plate . There he came in 1982 in the Primera División Metropolitano (26 games / seven goals) and 1983 in the Primera División Nacional Zona A (one game / no goal) to use. In 1983, after a stopover at the Uruguayan top club Nacional, he went on to another stay abroad with the Mexican representative Tecos , for whom he was active in the 1983/84 and 1984/85 seasons. Eleven goals in 45 games are the statistics for the Central Americans for him. After returning to his home country to the Montevidean club Peñarol , he was in the ranks of the Aurinegros in 1985 with 13 goals this season, top scorer in the Primera División and won the Uruguayan championship with his team. The next step in his career saw the re-signing of a contract with the Argentine top club River Plate . In the following years he won with his team in 1986 both the Copa Libertadores and the subsequent final against Steaua Bucharest for the World Cup , in which he scored the only and decisive goal, as well as the Copa Interamericana 1987 . After the two seasons 1986/87 and 1987/88 he scored 21 goals, and in his last season he played 26 games for the capital city. Now he dared the leap to Europe to the Spanish club CD Logroñés , finally at the end of his career in the Apertura 1990 (nine games, no goal) with Deportivo Textil Mandiyú and then again in his home country in 1991 with the Rampla Juniors in the Segunda División to hire. After that, he had another stop at Racing Durazno in the same year .

National team

Alzamendi was active between April 25, 1978 and June 25, 1990 in 31 international matches for his home country. He hit the opposing goal 6 times. He took part in the two world championships in 1986 and 1990 . At his first World Cup tournament he was able to appear as a goal scorer in the game against the selection of the Federal Republic of Germany. He was also involved in his home country's two titles at the Copa América 1983 and the Copa América 1987 .

In the run-up to the 1978 World Cup, he said he was contacted by Julio Grondona and the Argentine Association offered him money to take on Argentine citizenship and play for Argentina. But he refused.

successes

  • Argentine champion: 1978
  • Copa America: 1983
  • Uruguayan champion: 1985
  • Uruguayan Primera División top scorer : 1985
  • South American Footballer of the Year: 1986
  • Copa Libertadores: 1986
  • World Cup: 1986
  • Copa Interamericana: 1987
  • Copa America: 1987

Coaching

After his active career, he embarked on a coaching career and completed a coaching course at the ISEF from 1992 to 1993 . In 1992 and 1993 he worked in Durazno Club Wanderers and Club Central and became champions with both teams at the departmental level. In 1994 he coached Club Santa Bernardina. In 1994/95 he was also responsible for the department selection of Durazno, with which he became regional champion in southern Uruguay. From 1996 to 1997 Alzamendi then worked as an assistant coach at CD Logroñés . In 1998 he coached the Club Sportivo Cienciano in Peru . In 1998 he was also a coach at the second division club Central Español and in 1999 at the first-class Rampla Juniors . From 1999 to 2000 he was the coach of the league selection of the Uruguayan Segunda División . Juan Antonio Tchakidjian was one of his coaching team as a “preparador físico”. He also held this position at the 2001 Millennium Super Cup in India. In 2001 he was also the coach of the Uruguayan second division club El Tanque Sisley and the Australian club Canberra Cosmos FC . In 2002 he was signed to Deportivo Maldonado in this role . After he had been divorced from the coaching office a few days earlier, he took over the coaching office at Centro Atlético Fénix in April 2003 as the successor to Juan Ramón Carrasco, who had previously been promoted to national coach . With the Montevideans he was released on May 3, 2004. In 2005 he found a new coaching position at CSD Comunicaciones in Guatemala. After he had completed a coaching position at Club Sport Ancash in the previous season , Alzamendi was coach at the Peruvian club Total Chalaco Fútbol Club from the city of Callao from January 2009 until his resignation and replacement by the Argentine Roque Alfaro in September of the same year .

Others

In September 2015 it was reported that he had been living in Cardona in the Soriano department for several years .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ List of the top scorer of the Primera División on the website of the Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation
  2. FIFA match report for the World Cup final ( memento of March 21, 2009 in the Internet Archive ), no longer available on October 27, 2016
  3. Profile on playerhistory.com ( Memento from February 13, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ), accessed on October 14, 2012
  4. Antonio Alzamendi in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English). Retrieved October 14, 2012.
  5. Statistical data on international appearances in the Uruguayan national team on rsssf.com , accessed on October 14, 2012
  6. Antonio Alzamendi: me ofrecieron buena plata para jugar por Argentina (Spanish) on pantallazo.com.uy of August 10, 2017, accessed on August 10, 2017
  7. a b c d Nossos Profissionais - Técnicos - Alzamendi ( Memento of the original from October 27, 2016 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. (Spanish) from futebolcia.com.br, accessed October 27, 2016 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.futebolcia.com.br
  8. a b Antonio Alzamendi destituido como técnico del uruguayo Fénix (Spanish) on terra.com from May 3, 2004, accessed on November 26, 2014
  9. Cubilla y Alzamendi, figuras de uruguayas viven auge y ocaso como DT en Perú (Spanish) on eltiempo.com from May 18, 2009, accessed on October 27, 2016
  10. Agresta y Alzamendi se van al fútbol asiático (Spanish) on lr21.com.uy of May 12, 2000, accessed on October 26, 2016
  11. Actividad Profesional ( Memento from January 19, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish) on preparadorfisicouruguay.com, accessed on October 26, 2016
  12. Antonio Alzamendi asumiría en Fénix (Spanish) in La República of April 8, 2003, accessed on November 26, 2014
  13. ^ Report in El Comercio
  14. Alzamendi renunció y asume argentino Alfaro  ( page no longer available , search in web archivesInfo: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) in El Observador, September 21, 2009, accessed October 14, 2012@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / www.elobservador.com.uy  
  15. Antonio Alzamendi y su presente sorianense (Spanish) on agesor.com.uy of September 22, 2015, accessed October 27, 2016