Carlos Bilardo

Carlos Bilardo
Personnel
Surname	Carlos Salvador Bilardo
birthday	March 16, 1939
place of birth	La Paternal ,  Argentina
size	174 cm
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1958-1960	CA San Lorenzo	3 0(1)
1961-1964	Deportivo Español
1965-1970	Estudiantes de La Plata	171 (11)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1960	Argentina	1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1971	Estudiantes de La Plata
1973-1976	Estudiantes de La Plata
1976-1988	Deportivo Cali
1979	CA San Lorenzo
1979-1981	Colombia
1981-1982	Estudiantes de La Plata
1983-1990	Argentina
1992-1993	Sevilla FC
1995-1996	CA Boca Juniors U-20
1997	Sevilla FC
1997-1998	Guatemala
1999-2000	Libya
2003-2004	Estudiantes de La Plata
1 Only league games are given.

Carlos Salvador Bilardo (born March 16, 1939 in La Paternal , Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine football coach and former player.

Career

Bilardo was born in the La Paternal neighborhood, a neighborhood with Sicilian immigrants, in Buenos Aires. He started playing football at an early age and played in his youth in the Argentine national youth team that took part in the 1960 Olympic Games .

In 1961 he joined the second division club Deportivo Español, where he became the team's best goalscorer. Over time, he was increasingly used in defensive midfield. He continued his medical studies at the University of Buenos Aires. In 1965 he went to the Club Estudiantes de La Plata , where he established himself as a tactician. With him, the club won the Copa Libertadores three times in a row between 1968 and 1970 . From 1983 to 1990 he coached the Argentine national team , which he led to victory at the 1986 World Cup in Mexico and second place at the 1990 World Cup in Italy .

After the 1990 World Cup, the Brazilian Branco claimed that he was the victim of an Argentine trick: while the game was interrupted, the Argentine team masseur handed him a bottle of water, which is said to have been mixed with a sedative. Branco got sick after enjoying the water. Maradona later confirmed Branco's version, saying that his coach Carlos Bilardo was behind it. Carlos Bilardo is considered one of the most influential coaches in Argentina, as several of his national players such as José Luis Brown , Nery Pumpido , Jorge Burruchaga , Sergio Batista , Miguel Ángel Russo and Diego Maradona later took on coaching duties. At the 2006 World Cup , he worked as a commentator for the Argentine broadcaster Canal 13 . At the 2010 World Cup he served as national coach Maradona as sporting director.

successes

• 1968–1970 Copa Libertadores as a player at Estudiantes de La Plata.
• World Cup as a player at Estudiantes de La Plata.
• 1986 world champion as Argentine national coach
• 1987 4th place in the Copa America as Argentine national coach
• 1989 3rd place in the Copa America as Argentine national coach
• 1990 Vice World Champion as Argentine national coach

Trivia

Only Vittorio Pozzo (1934 and 1938), Franz Beckenbauer (1986 and 1990) and Carlos Bilardo (1986 and 1990) led a national team to a World Cup final twice in a row. Mário Zagallo made two finals, albeit with a time lag (1970 and 1998).

Web links

• Carlos Bilardo in the database of Sports-Reference (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article on the "water affair"
2. ↑ in the Berliner Zeitung