Dario Franco

Dario Franco
Personnel
Surname	Dario Javier Franco Gatti
birthday	17th January 1969
place of birth	Cruz Alta , Cordoba ,  Argentina
size	189 cm
position	Defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1987-1991	Newell's Old Boys	100 0(4)
1991-1995	Real Zaragoza	91 0(7)
1995-1997	Atlas Guadalajara	85 (11)
1998-2004	Monarcas Morelia	241 (19)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1991-1994	Argentina	22 0(6)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2006	Monarcas Morelia
2006-2007	Tecos de la UAG
2008-2009	Atlas Guadalajara
2010-2011	San Martin de San Juan
2011–2012	Instituto Córdoba
2012-2013	Universidad de Chile
2013-2014	Club Atlético Aldosivi
1 Only league games are given.

Darío Franco (born January 17, 1969 in Cruz Alta , Córdoba ) is an Argentine football coach and former player on the position of defender .

Life

player

Franco began his active career with the Newell's Old Boys , with whom he won the Argentine football championship in the 1990/91 season .

Immediately after this success he moved to Real Saragossa in the Spanish Primera División . With the team from Aragon he won the Spanish Cup competition in the 1993/94 season and the European Cup Winners' Cup in the following season .

In the summer of 1995 he moved to the Mexican league , where he first played two and a half years for Atlas Guadalajara and then more than six years at Monarcas Morelia under contract, where he ended his active career. With the Monarcas he won the winter tournament of the 2000/01 season.

Between 1991 and 1994 Franco completed a total of 22 international appearances for the Argentine national team , in which he scored six goals. With the Gauchos he won the Copa America twice in a row during this period ( 1991 and 1993 ); Incidentally, to this day the only title of the record winner in this competition since 1959 .

Trainer

After finishing his active career, he worked in the coaching staff of the Monarcas and was promoted to head coach after a false start in the Clausura 2006 , when only one point was scored in the first four games. In the coming years, he oversaw the Mexican teams Tecos de la UAG and Atlas Guadalajara before moving to Argentina returned, where he in the 2010/11 season the San Martín de San Juan and then until November 2012 Instituto Atlético Central Córdoba supervised.

At the end of 2012 he took over the Chilean football club CF Universidad de Chile , with which he won the Chilean cup competition of the 2012/13 season, but was dismissed in July 2013 due to a negative series. Since October 2013 he has been coaching the Argentine club Atlético Aldosivi .

successes

As a club player

• Argentinian champion: 1990/91 (with Newell's Old Boys)
• Mexican champion: Invierno 2000 (with Monarcas Morelia)
• Spanish Cup Winner: 1993/94 (with Real Saragossa)
• European Cup Winners' Cup: 1994/95 (with Real Saragossa)

As a national player

• Copa América: 1991 and 1993 (with Argentina)

As a trainer

• Chilean Cup Winner: 2013 (with Universidad de Chile)

Web links

• Darío Franco in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Player profile in the Mediotiempo database (Spanish)
• Trainer profile in the Mediotiempo database (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Games of the Monarcas Morelia in the Clausura 2006 ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2016 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. 
2. ↑ Franco dejo de ser el entrenador de San Martín de San Juan (Spanish; article of 14 March 2011)
3. ↑ Darío Franco e Instituto: el cariño más allá del resultado (Spanish; article from November 14, 2012)
4. ↑ Universidad de Chile despidió a Darío Franco (Spanish; article of July 8, 2013)
5. ↑ Darío Franco es el nuevo entrenador de Aldosivi de Mar del Plata (Spanish; article from October 1, 2013)