Jorge Fossati

Jorge Fossati
Personnel
Surname	Jorge Daniel Fossati Lurachi
birthday	November 22, 1952
place of birth	Montevideo ,  Uruguay
position	goal
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1970-1971	Rampla Juniors FC
1972	Central Español
1973-1980	Club Atlético Peñarol
1981	CA Independiente	20 (0)
1982	Los Millonarios CD
1983	Olimpia Asunción
1984	Green Cross
1985-1987	Rosario Central	16 (0)
1987-1988	Deportivo Mandiyú
1989	Avaí-SC
1990	Coritiba FC
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
at least 1971	Uruguay (Juniors)	at least 1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
	Club Atlético Peñarol (youth coach)
1993-1995	River Plate Montevideo
1996	Club Atlético Peñarol
1997	Club Cerro Porteño
1998-2001	Danubio FC
2001-2002	CA Colón
2002	Danubio FC
2003-2004	LDU Quito
2004-2006	Uruguay
2007	al-Sadd Sports Club
2007-2008	Qatar
2009	LDU Quito
2009-2010	Internacional Porto Alegre
2010	Al-Shabab
2011–2012	al-Sadd Sports Club
2012-2013	Club Cerro Porteño
2013	Al Ain
2014	Club Atlético Peñarol
2015-2016	Al-Rayyan SC
2016–	Qatar
1 Only league games are given.

Jorge Daniel Fossati Lurachi (born November 22, 1952 in Montevideo ) is a former Uruguayan football player and current coach.

Player career

society

The "Flaco" said goalkeeper started his career in 1970 with the then in the Primera División playing Rampla Juniors in Montevideo, which at that season in the Segunda División descended. In 1972 he joined Central Español and from 1973 he was in Peñarol's ranks . He stayed there until 1980 and celebrated five Uruguayan championships during this period (1973, 1974, 1975, 1978 and 1979).

From the Aurinegros he moved to Argentina, where he was used in 1981 in the Primer División Metropolitano in 20 games for Independiente de Avellaneda . The next career stop in 1982 was the Colombian club CD Los Millonarios . The following year he went to Paraguay . There he won the national championship with Olimpia Asunción . In 1984 he joined the Chilean club Green Cross in the Primera División Zona Sur .

The following year saw him return to Argentina. In ranks of Rosario Central , he first played in Primera B Zona B , to then be used 16 times in the Primera División in the 1986/87 season . At the end of that season, he was able to record his seventh championship in personal success statistics. The season 1987/88 concluded the now changed to Deportivo Mandiyú in the Nacional B Fossati also with the title win. He then ended his career in Brazil with Avaí-SC (1989) and Coritiba FC (1990). In Brazil he won the Torneo Catarinense with Avaí .

National team

Fossati was part of the squad of the Uruguayan junior national team at the 1971 South American Junior Championship . There he took second place with his teammates and was thus vice South American junior champion. During the tournament he was used by coach Rodolfo Zamora once.

Coaching career

Fossati began his coaching career with a successful engagement with the youth team of Peñarols . In 1993 he was the coach of River Plate Montevideo in the Primera División. After his engagement there ended in 1995, he worked for Peñarol in 1996 and became a master. In 1997 he continued his coaching career in Paraguay, where he coached Club Cerro Porteño and won the Torneo Apertura.

Between 1998 and 2001 and 2002, he worked for the Uruguayan association Danubio , between 2001 and 2002 in Argentina at Colón de Santa Fe . During his second engagement with Danubio, he won the Torneo Clausura there in 2002. In the 2003/2004 season he took over the Ecuadorian club Deportivo Quito and became champions.

From 2004 to 2006 he worked as a coach for the Uruguayan national team and looked after them as part of the World Cup qualification.

In 2007 he took over the position of football instructor at al-Sadd Sport Club , became Qatari champion and was also the national coach of Qatar from 2007 to September 2008 . However, he had to give up this office for health reasons.

As a result, he returned to South America. In 2009 he replaced Edgardo Bauza as coach of LDU Quito and won the Copa Sudamericana and the Recopa Sudamericana with his club . From December 2009 to May 2010 Fossati trained in Brazil Internacional Porto Alegre .

He then coached Al-Shabab from July to December 2010 and again at al-Sadd Sport Club from January 2011 to May 2012 . This time he won the AFC Champions League title in Qatar . Since May 2012 he has been the successor of the Argentinian Mario Grana in the service of the Paraguayan club Club Cerro Porteño and this year secured the title of Torneo Apertura . There he resigned in February 2013 after a loss in the Copa Libertadores game against Real Gracilaso from his post.

In July 2013 he took over the coaching position at Al Ain in the United Arab Emirates and signed a one-year contract. However, his time at the Arab club ended in September 2013 after 49 days in office.

In mid-January 2014, Fossati's potential engagement as national coach of Guatemala was in the air. At the end of January 2014, he then took over the coaching position at Club Atlético Peñarol, which had previously completed an extremely disappointing Torneo Apertura. His coaching staff at the Aurinegros consisted of the assistant coaches Prof. Sebastián Avellino and Leonardo Martins as well as goalkeeping coach Sergio Navarro .

Following a 2-1 defeat at Clásico , he resigned on November 9, 2014. During his tenure, his record at the "Aurinegros" showed 39 competitive games under his leadership, 20 wins, ten draws and nine defeats. However, he lost four of the last five games before his retirement.

In July 2015 he accepted the coaching position with the Qatari team Al-Rayyan SC . His coaching staff consisted of the two co-coaches Leonardo Martins and Gonzalo "Matraca" Gutiérrez and "preparador físico" Sebastián Avelino.

In September 2016, Fossati became the coach of the Qatari national team for the second time after 2008 . He succeeded his compatriot Daniel Carreño in this position .

successes

As a player

• 5 × Uruguayan champions: 1973 , 1974 , 1975 , 1978 and 1979
• 1 × Paraguayan champion: 1983
• 1 × Argentine champion: 1986/87
• 1 × Vice Junior South American Champion: 1971

As a trainer

• 1 × Uruguayan champion: 1996
• 1 × Torneo Clausura in Uruguay: 2002
• 2 × Torneo Apertura in Paraguay: 1997, 2012
• 1 × Ecuadorian champion: 2003
• 1 × Qatari champion: 2007
• 1 × Copa Sudamericana: 2009
• 1 × Recopa Sudamericana: 2009
• 1 × AFC Champions League: 2011

Web links

• Jorge Fossati in the weltfussball.de database

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Page no longer available , search in web archives: Profile on playerhistory.com , accessed on October 31, 2012
2. ↑ ^{a b} Official website: jorgefossati.com (Spanish), accessed on October 31, 2012
3. ↑ Sudamericanos s20: década del 70 ( Memento of the original from May 18, 2015 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. (Spanish) from auf.org.uy, accessed May 11, 2015 
4. ^ Marcos Silvera Antúnez: Club Atlético Peñarol - 120, “Directores Técnicos”, Ediciones El Galeón, Montevideo 2011, p. 192f - ISBN 978-9974-553-79-8
5. ↑ Luciano Álvarez : Historia de Peñarol , 3rd edition 2010, 707ff
6. ↑ Castelli es el DT n ° 56 de Danubio (Spanish) on danubio.org.uy, accessed on November 5, 2016
7. ↑ Estadísticas (Spanish) on danubio.org.uy, accessed January 6, 2013
8. ↑ Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation : Qatar National Team Coaches
9. ^ Jorge Fossati in the soccerway.com database, accessed June 9, 2015
10. ↑ Jorge Fossati renució a Cerro Porteño, luego de la derrota ante Real Garcilaso  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) on depor.pe from February 22, 2013, accessed on May 26, 2013  
11. ↑ Renunció Jorge Fossati, DT de Cerro Porteño ( Memento of the original from April 19, 2014 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. (Spanish) from eltiempo.com from February 22, 2013, accessed May 26, 2013  
12. ↑ Fossati es nuevo DT de Al Ain - Hacia Asia otra vez (Spanish) on futbol.com.uy of July 26, 2013, accessed on July 27, 2013
13. ↑ Al Ain release manager Jorge Fossati after 49 days in charge (English) on thenational.ae of September 14, 2013, accessed on April 19, 2014
14. ↑ Jorge Fossati analiza propuesta para dirigir a la selección nacional de futbol (Spanish) on prensalibre.com from January 15, 2014, accessed on April 19, 2014
15. ↑ Jorge Fossati es el nuevo DT de Peñarol  ( page no longer available , search in web archives )  Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) in El Observador, January 27, 2014, accessed April 19, 2014  
16. ↑ Renunció Jorge Fossati ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) on espectador.com from November 9, 2014, accessed November 24, 2014  
17. ↑ Peñarol: Jorge Fossati solo perdió el 22.22% de los partidos que dirigió (Spanish) on tenfield.com.uy of November 10, 2014, accessed on November 24, 2014
18. ↑ Al Flaco (Spanish) on futbol.com.uy of July 3, 2015, accessed July 4, 2015
19. ↑ Tormenta en el desierto (Spanish) on ovaciondigital.com.uy of March 12, 2016, accessed on April 14, 2017
20. ↑ QFA named Fossati as new coach on qfa.qa (undated), accessed on September 30, 2016 (English)
21. ↑ Sale Carreño, entra Fossati (Spanish) on futbol.com.uy of September 24, 2016, accessed on September 30, 2016