Hernán Darío Gómez

Hernán Gómez
Hernán Darío Gómez (June 2015)
Personnel
Surname	Hernán Darío Gómez Jaramillo
birthday	3rd February 1956
place of birth	Medellin ,  Colombia
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1975-1980	Independiente Medellin
1980-1984	Atlético Nacional
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1990-1994	Atlético Nacional
1995-1998	Colombia
1999-2004	Ecuador
2006-2008	Guatemala
2009	Santa Fe CD
2010-2011	Colombia
2012-2013	Independiente Medellin
2014-2018	Panama
2018-2019	Ecuador
1 Only league games are given.

Hernán Darío Gómez Jaramillo , called "El Bolillo" (born February 3, 1956 in Medellín ) is a Colombian soccer coach and former soccer player who was the coach of the Panamanian national soccer team from 2014 to 2018 , which he led to a soccer World Cup in 2018 for the first time would have. Before that, he coached clubs in his native Colombia as well as the Colombian , Ecuadorian and Guatemalan national soccer teams .

Career

player

Gómez first played for his hometown club Independiente Medellín and then for local rivals Atlético Nacional . With Atlético he took part once in the Copa Libertadores 1982 , but failed in the first group stage.

Trainer

After his active career , he became the assistant coach of Francisco Maturana , initially at his previous club, Atlético Nacional . The club won the Copa Libertadores in 1989 under her leadership . When Maturana became the Colombian national coach, his assistant followed him and they finished third at the 1987 Copa America . In addition, they managed to lead the team to the 1990 World Cup , with Colombia once again taking part in a World Cup final after 28 years. The team met eventual world champions Germany in the group stage and achieved a 1-1 draw. In the round of 16, the team lost 2-1 to Cameroon in extra time with two goals from Roger Milla . In 1992 he looked after the Colombian team at the Olympic Games in Barcelona , which was eliminated after the group stage.

The Colombians were also able to qualify for the World Cup in the USA under their leadership. There they had to cancel the sails after the preliminary round, although Pelé had classified them as a secret favorite. When Maturana stopped after the World Cup, Gómez was his successor. He managed to lead the Colombians to the World Cup in France , where they only managed to win against Tunisia . The other two group matches against Romania and England were lost. With that, Colombia left the group as third. Gómez then moved to Ecuador and took over the Ecuadorian national team , which had never qualified for a World Cup finals. In the qualification , the Ecuadorians took second place under his leadership, leaving eventual world champions Brazil behind them, while Colombia was unable to qualify in sixth after three successful qualifications. In the finals they lost their first game against Italy with two goals from Christian Vieri 2-0 and the second game against Mexico was lost 2-1 despite an early lead. In the last game against Croatia that was insignificant for them , their first victory was achieved, which blocked the Croatians' way to the second round. Gómez initially stayed in office, but resigned after the 2004 Copa America , in which Ecuador lost three times in the group stage.

From 2006 to 2008 he was the coach of the Guatemalan national soccer team and reached the quarter-finals of the 2007 CONCACAF Gold Cup with the team that had previously failed five times in the preliminary round . After a 5-0 defeat against an Argentine B team in February 2008, he resigned because he could not see any progress. Then he returned to his homeland and took over the Santa Fe CD . The club won the Colombia Cup in 2009 .

After the Colombians failed to qualify for the 2010 World Cup , the Colombian federation hired him again as national coach. But he only kept the post for a year.

This was followed by an engagement with his hometown club Independiente Medellín . After the team had finished the Apertura in the Categoría Primera A 2012 in 16th place, the team took seventh place after the finalización and reached the first place in the subsequent semi-final phase of the eight best teams and thus the finals against Millonarios FC . In these they could only achieve a 0-0 home game and since the away goals did not count there was a penalty shoot-out after the 1-1 draw in the second leg, which was lost 4-5.

In 2014 he became the national coach of Panama and reached 3rd place with the team at the CONCACAF Gold Cup 2015 by winning on penalties against hosts USA . In qualifying for the 2018 he reached the fifth round with Panama and was able to lead Panama to a World Cup final for the first time. He became the first coach to qualify for a World Cup final with three different national teams. Panama benefited from a US defeat in their last game against bottom of the table Trinidad and Tobago. At the World Cup, Panama lost the three group matches and was eliminated from the bottom of the group. Shortly after the World Cup, he resigned from his position. 14 days later he took over the national team of Ecuador. After less than a year and the preliminary round at the Copa América 2019 , his term of office ended there.

Success as a trainer

• Qualified for the 1998 World Cup (with Colombia), 2002 (with Ecuador) and 2018 (with Panama).

Awards

• 1996: South America's coach of the year
• 2015: CONCACAF Trainer of the Year

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fifa.com: "Olympic Football Tournament Barcelona 1992 - Teams - Colombia"
2. ↑ abendzeitung-muenchen.de: "Colombia and the World Cup 1994 - An own goal and six shots: The murder of Andrés Escobar"
3. ↑ fifa.com: "Difficult times for Hernán Darío Gómez"
4. ↑ "Guatemala is on the way up"
5. ↑ fifa.com: "Guatemala back on the road to success"
6. ↑ fifa.com: "Colombia wants the turnaround"
7. ↑ fifa.com/SID: "National coach Gomez resigned"
8. ↑ Millonarios - Independiente Medellín 5: 4 iE
9. ↑ goal.com: Panama boss Gomez steps down after World Cup
10. ↑ rsssf.com: "South American Coach and Player of the Year"
11. ↑ concacaf.com: "Javier Hernandez and Carli Lloyd Named 2015 CONCACAF Players of the Year"

Web links

Commons : Hernán Darío Gómez  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Hernán Gómez in the database of FIFA (English)
• Hernán Gómez in the database of weltfussball.de
• Football, violence, power and the mafia Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , June 2018