Gerardo Pelusso

Gerardo Pelusso
Personnel
Surname	Gerardo Pelusso Boyrie
birthday	February 25, 1954
place of birth	Florida ,  Uruguay
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1970-1971	Nacional Montevideo
1972-1973	Colón Fútbol Club
1975	Liverpool Montevideo
1976-1977	Atlético Potosino
1978	Deportivo Quito
1979-1980	LDU Quito
1981-1982	Emelec
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1975-1976	Uruguay
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1984	Emelec
1985-1988	Club Atlético (Florida, Uruguay)
1988-1990	Selección de Florida
1991	Liverpool Montevideo
1992	Club Atlético Quilmes (Florida, Uruguay)
1993-1995	Club Atlético Cerro
1996-1997	Club Deportes Iquique
1998	Everton de Viña del Mar
1999	Frontera Rivera FC
2000	Racing Club de Montevideo
2001-2002	SD Aucas
2003	Club Atlético Cerro
2004-2005	Danubio FC
2006-2007	Alianza Lima
2007-2009	Nacional Montevideo
2009-2010	CF Universidad de Chile
2011–2012	Club Olimpia
2012-2013	Paraguay
2013-2014	Nacional Montevideo
2015-2016	Independiente Santa Fe
2016	Al-Arabi
2017–	Deportivo Cali
1 Only league games are given.

Gerardo Pelusso , full name: Gerardo Pelusso Boyrie , (born February 25, 1954 in Florida , Uruguay ) is a Uruguayan football coach and former player.

Player career

society

The first club in Pelusso's career was from 1970 to 1971 Nacional Montevideo . From there he moved within the city to the Colón Fútbol Club , where he played from 1972 to 1973. Another station followed in the Uruguayan capital when he ran for Liverpool Montevideo in 1975 . After that, however, he left his homeland, which was determined at that time by a civil-military dictatorship, and went abroad. Via Mexico, where he played for Atlético Potosino from 1976 to 1977 , he made his way to Ecuador . Here he worked successively for the clubs Deportivo Quito (1978), LDU Quito (1979–1980) and Emelec (1981–1982).

National team

From 1975 to 1976 Pelusso was also on the squad of the Uruguayan senior team .

Coaching career

education

After his playing career, he switched to coaching. To this end, he first attended a trainer training course in Quito, Ecuador in 1982 . Further courses followed in 1984 (joint course of the Olympic Committee and FIFA) in Guayaquil and 1986 (course of the Uruguayan Olympic Committee) in Durazno . On July 8, 1992, he successfully completed his trainer training at the Instituto Superior de Educación Física del Uruguay . In the same year he also took a course held in San Pablo , Brazil, with the content tactics and strategy. In 1995, Miljan Miljanic attended a further course in Montevideo for 20 highly qualified coaches and organized by FIFA together with the Olympic Committee. In 1996 his trainer title was recognized by the Comisión Técnica Nacional in Santiago .

Stations

He began his practical coaching activity where he had ended his career as a player, at the Ecuadorian club Emelec . From 1985 he worked for three years at Club Atlético in his hometown. From 1988 to 1990 he coached the departmental selection of Florida and won the national championship title. In 1991 he was the coach of Liverpool Montevideo . In 1992, in the service of Club Atlético Quilmes , he won the championship at the departmental level. From 1993 he had a coaching engagement with Cerro in Uruguayan professional football until 1995 . There he succeeded in 1994 with his players winning the Uruguayan runner-up championship. He also played the 1995 Copa Libertadores season with Cerro . Subsequently, his path led him to Chile to the Club Deportes Iquique , where he held the coaching position from 1996 to 1997. In 1998 he also trained the Everton de Viña del Mar club in Chile . Returned to Uruguay, he was called Campeón del Interior the following year with Frontera Rivera FC . In 2000 he was under contract as a coach at Racing Club de Montevideo . From 2001 to 2002 he took over the coaching position at SD Aucas in Ecuador and took part in the Copa Merconorte . After another stopover in 2003 at Cerro, he led Danubio FC to its second Uruguayan championship title in the club's history in 2004 and also won the Torneo Clasificatorio and the Torneo Apertura that year undefeated. With Danubio he stayed until 2005. From 2006 he was in the service of the Peruvian club Alianza Lima . There he added both the championship of the Apertura 2006 and the overall championship title in 2006 to his success statistics. At Nacional Montevideo , where he held the coaching position for the next three years, he completed an extremely successful period. He won the Torneo Apertura in 2009 and became Uruguayan champions with the club in the 2008/09 season. In addition, the Montevideans won 2009 under his direction at the Copa Ricard , the Copa Suat and were champions of the Liguilla Pre-Libertadores . The 2009 Copa Libertadores finished fourth. This placed Nacional in a better position at the international level than it had been for 20 years. His time at Nacional ended after a secret ballot previously carried out at the club's management level at the beginning of August 2009. In the same year, he took on a position at CF Universidad de Chile that lasted until 2010 . There he achieved the best result in the club's history in this tournament by reaching the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores 2010 . Since June 20, 2011 he coached the Paraguayan club Club Olimpia . Here he was assisted by the two former Uruguayan players José Mauricio Larriera Dibarboure and Javier Carballo Díaz . In 2011 he and his team won the Torneo Clausura and thus the Paraguayan championship. In July 2012 he became the national coach of Paraguay . After the 2-1 defeat against Chile in qualifying for the 2014 World Cup on June 7, 2013, Pelusso resigned from his position. On December 16, 2013 it was announced that he would succeed Rodolfo Arruabarrena in the coaching position at Nacional Montevideo. Pelusso's second phase at Nacional ended on April 28, 2014. After a 5-0 defeat in Clásico against rival Peñarol, he offered to resign, which the club officials accepted. His successor was interim coach Álvaro Gutiérrez .

At the end of May 2015 he took over the coaching position at Independiente Santa Fe in Colombia, succeeding the Argentinean Gustavo Costas . His coaching team consists of Javier Carvallo and Pablo Peirano .

successes

• Paraguayan Champion 2011 (Torneo Clausura)
• 2 × Uruguayan champions (2004 and 2008/09)
• Peruvian champion 2006

Private

Pelusso, who speaks Portuguese in addition to Spanish and completed his schooling with the Bachillerato comunicaciones , was married but divorced.

Web links

• Official website www.pelusso.com (Spanish), accessed January 20, 2012

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Eduardo Acevedo es el nuevo director técnico del Nacional de Uruguay (Spanish) in El Economista of August 5, 2009, accessed on January 23, 2012
2. ↑ Gerardo Pelusso es el nuevo entrenador de la Selección de Paraguay (Spanish) on www.caracol.com.co from July 10, 2012, accessed on July 10, 2012
3. ↑ Pelusso new national coach in Paraguay on www.welt.de from July 10, 2012, accessed on July 10, 2012
4. ^ DT Gerardo Pelusso oficializó su desvinculación. Mañana brindará una conferencia. ( Memento of the original from June 13, 2013 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. Notice on the homepage of the Paraguayan Association (Spanish), accessed on June 10, 2013  
5. ↑ Nacional: Pelusso vuelve a Nacional - GP, ese (Spanish) on www.montevideo.com.uy of December 16, 2013, accessed on December 16, 2013
6. ↑ Peñarol 5- Nacional 0 - Cinco de oro y carbón (Spanish) on www.montevideo.com.uy of April 27, 2014, accessed on April 29, 2014
7. ↑ Nacional aceptó la renuncia de Pelusso - Estaba cantado (Spanish) on www.montevideo.com.uy of April 28, 2014, accessed on April 29, 2014
8. ↑ Nacional: Álvaro Gutiérrez, DT interino - Enderezar el barco (Spanish) at www.montevideo.com.uy of April 29, 2014, accessed on April 29, 2014
9. ↑ La hora de volver (Spanish) on futbol.com.uy of May 30, 2015, accessed on May 31, 2015