Carlos Aldabe

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Remarkable and correct defender Aldabe in July 1942 on the title of El Grafico

Carlos Roberto Aldabe (born January 1, 1919 in Roberts, Buenos Aires Province , † October 16, 1998) was an Argentine football player and coach. He is best known as the player-coach who led the then highly prominent Colombian team CD Los Millonarios to the first championship in the club's history.

As a player, Roberto "Cacho" defended Aldabe in the province of Buenos Aires from 1939 to 1944 at CA Platense in the first division and from 1945 to 1946 in Quilmes AC in the second-rate Primera B . From 1949 he was player-coach at CD Los Millonarios in the Colombian capital Bogotá . After the introduction of professionalism in Colombia, he traveled to Buenos Aires on behalf of the club's president, Alfonso Senior, to look for Argentine stars. At his initiative, El Maestro Adolfo Pedernera from CA River Plate came to the club in June 1949 , and his teammates Néstor Rossi and Alfredo Di Stéfano in his wake in August .

This was favored on the one hand by an ongoing player strike in Argentina, which severely impaired the game operations there, and on the other hand by the fact that in the Colombian league players were allowed to appear without approval by their previous clubs, which the clubs practically saved the transfer fees due.

In 1949, the Millonarios won their first football championship in Colombia . From the end of May 1950, Aldabe was just a player. Pedernera inherited him as a coach and was to lead the club to further great successes until the end of El Dorado in 1954 as the much-acclaimed Ballet Azul ("Blue Ballet"). Aldabe later joined the Peruvian club Ciclista Lima , which had just been promoted back to the first division , where striker Juan Emilio Salinas was the star of the team. From mid-1952 he completed a few more games in Colombia for Santa Fe and the following year for Universidad from Bogotá.

After his return to Argentina, he trained there until 1968 with several clubs in the professional field, although not top clubs. From 1953 to 1954 he coached Quilmes AC in the second division. He then worked in Chile from 1956 to 1958, where he initially trained in the second division CD Universidad Católica - where the legendary Sergio Livingstone was waiting for the goal - and Everton de Viña del Mar with the Paraguayan star striker Máximo Rolón . Between 1960 and 1968 he coached another half a dozen clubs in Argentina. His engagements as a coach were more of a short-term nature and no new titles were won. At Universidad Católica he was possibly the coach of the club, which was relegated in 1955 as the reigning champion , returned to the first division.

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SURNAME Aldabe, Carlos
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Aldabe, Carlos Roberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH January 1, 1919
PLACE OF BIRTH Roberts, Buenos Aires Province
DATE OF DEATH October 16, 1998