Jorge Solari

Jorge Raúl Solari

Jorge Raúl Solari (born November 11, 1941 in Buenos Aires ) is a former Argentine soccer player and later coach, who took part as a player in the 1966 soccer world championship and won the Copa Libertadores in 1970 as well as coaching for CD Tenerife and the national team, among others of Saudi Arabia was responsible.

Player career

Club career

Jorge Solari began playing football in 1960 with Newell's Old Boys in Rosario . Here he played for two years and made thirty-one league games for the club. In 1962 he moved to Buenos Aires , where he was born in 1941. In the following two years he was active for CA Vélez Sársfield and came to thirty-four league games for the club. For the 1964 season Solari was committed by CA River Plate , the noble club of Argentina . A title win with the Argentine record champions was denied him, because River Plate found itself in a small low after the departure of the legendary Maquina , during which between 1957 and 1975 not a single title was won. By a second place in the championship in 1965 River Plate qualified for the Copa Libertadores 1966 , where the final was reached. There, coach Renato Cesarini's team , which included Solari players like Óscar Mas , Luis Cubilla and Juan Carlos Sarnari , failed at the Uruguayan representative CA Peñarol .

Later in his career, Jorge Solari managed a second time to advance to the final of the Libertadores Cup. At the tournament of 1970 he reached, now as a player of Estudiantes de La Plata , the final and met again on Peñarol. This time Solaris team was victorious and was able to achieve the third Libertadores victory in a row. All in all, Solari played for Estudiantes for a year after leaving River Plate in 1969, before moving back to the club and going to Mexico to CF Torreón , a now defunct club that played in the Primera División at the time , to end his career there allow.

National team

Jorge Solari made ten international matches for the Argentine national football team between 1966 and 1969 . National coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo , he was in the squad for the 1966 FIFA World Cup in England called. At the tournament Solari was used in all four games of his team, but he did not succeed in scoring as in his entire international career. Argentina finished second in the preliminary round behind the eventual runner-up in Germany , who had won a goalless draw, and ahead of Spain and Switzerland . In the quarter-finals they met England and were eliminated by a 0-1 defeat, Geoff Hurst was successful in the 78th minute of the game for the hosts.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career as a football player, Jorge Solari was also successful as a coach. In his home country Argentina he coached various clubs, including Newell's Old Boys, CA Independiente and Rosario Central . On the South American continent he was also responsible for, for example, Barcelona SC Guayaquil in Ecuador , CD Los Millonarios in Colombia and Club América in Mexico. From 1990 to 1992 he also trained CD Tenerife in Spain . In 1994 he became the national coach of Saudi Arabia . With the Saudis he took part in a world championship for the first time in their football history, the world championship in the United States in 1994 only ended with the knockout in the round of 16 against Sweden . Previously, the Solaris team had surprisingly survived the group stage and finished second behind the Netherlands and ahead of Belgium and Morocco . Despite the good performance at the World Cup, Jorge Solari's contract was not extended and he became a coach in Japan at Yokohama Marinos a little later . After many other positions, he last worked for Atlético Tucumán .

Stations

As a player

• 1960 to 1961: Newell's Old Boys
• 1962 to 1963: CA Vélez Sársfield
• 1964 to 1969: River Plate
• 1970: Estudiantes de La Plata
• 1971: CF Torreón

As a trainer

• 1980 to 1981: CA Vélez Sársfield
• 1983 to 1987: Newell's Old Boys
• 1988 to 1990: CA Independiente
• 1991 to 1992: CD Tenerife
• 1994: Saudi Arabia
• Yokohama Marinos
• 2002: Argentinos Juniors
• 2003 to 2003: Barcelona SC Guayaquil
• 2005: Club Almagro
• 2005: CA Tiro Federal
• 2006 to 2009: Atlético Tucumán
• 2011: Atlético Tucumán

Web links

• Jorge Solari in the database of weltfussball.de
• Jorge Solari in the database of FIFA (English)
• Information about the player