Jorge Valdano

Jorge Valdano
Jorge Valdano (1985)
Personnel
Surname	Jorge Alberto Francisco Valdano Castellano
birthday	4th October 1955
place of birth	Las Parejas , Santa Fe Province ,  Argentina
size	188 cm
position	Center Forward
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1971-1975	Newell's Old Boys	49 (11)
1975-1979	Deportivo Alavés	63 (21)
1979-1984	Real Zaragoza	143 (46)
1984-1987	real Madrid	85 (40)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1975-1990	Argentina	22 0(7)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1991-1992	Real Madrid (Youth)
1992-1994	CD Tenerife
1994-1996	real Madrid
1996-1997	Valencia CF
1 Only league games are given.

Jorge Valdano , full name Jorge Alberto Francisco Valdano Castellano , (born October 4, 1955 in Las Parejas , Santa Fe province ) is a former Argentine football player , coach and manager who has also acquired Spanish citizenship since September 1987 and today works as a management consultant and commentator for BeIN Sports .

Active career

National team

He played for the Argentine national team , u. a. at the 1982 FIFA World Cup and the 1986 World Cup . At the tournament in Mexico he was one of the outstanding players of the Argentines and with four goals after Diego Maradona also the most successful goalscorer of his team. His most important goal was in the final against Germany when he made it 2-0 (final score 3-2).

After retiring in 1989, he was reactivated for the national team, although he hadn't had a club for more than a year. The now 34-year-old tried to make a comeback, but could not make up the physical deficit compared to his teammates. Shortly before the 1990 World Cup , he was eliminated from the squad.

society

Valdano was already 19 years old when he played for the top Argentine club Newell's Old Boys in Rosario , where he stood out as a robust, ambitious striker with strong fighting skills. He was considered one of the "child prodigies" of Argentine football; European clubs had long since noticed him. Valdano also wants to leave the homeland ruled by the military junta for political reasons. In 1975 he left Argentina and went to Europe to sign with the Spanish second division club Deportivo Alavés . However, the promises made to the young striker were not fulfilled. Allegedly, the club wanted to try to transfer Valdano to a top club as quickly as possible in order to get a high transfer fee into the chronically empty coffers. However, it was four years before he was able to move to Real Zaragoza in the Primera División in 1979 . There he bribed as a threading agent and executor alike. He had arrived in top Spanish football. For a while he was toying with a move to FC Barcelona , which was coached by his compatriot César Luis Menotti , but after his dismissal, such change intentions were broken.

Instead, he moved to Real Madrid in 1984 . Although he was already 29 years old, he experienced the climax of his club career in the following years with the “Royal”. In 1985 he and his club won the UEFA Cup , which they defended a year later. In addition, Real was with Valdano in 1986 for the first time in six years again Spanish football champions . The congenial storm duo Jorge Valdano and Hugo Sánchez played a significant role in this title win . Valdano was seen by coaches and colleagues as a very helpful player for the team who thought for himself. As a result, he offended a few times, because he shared his sometimes contrary views on tactics with his coaches. However, he never questioned their authority. After the 1986 World Cup , his career took a turn for the worse. At the beginning of 1987, a kidnapped hepatitis forced him to take a year and a half off. After that he was unable to build on his achievements and ended his active career in 1988.

After the football career

After his active career as a footballer, Jorge Valdano became a coach. He led Real Madrid to the Spanish championship in 1995 and was then football director of the club until his resignation in summer 2004 . The purchases of world stars such as Luís Figo , Ronaldo , David Beckham and Zinédine Zidane came about under his leadership. Valdano turned the association into a global business enterprise. Because he frequently reports in newspaper columns about his football lobbies and quotes William Shakespeare, for example, he is called the “philosopher of football” in Spain and Latin America. His book About Football was named "Football Book of the Year" at the 2006 German Football Culture Prize. He is also an honorary member of the Academy for Football Culture . He took the view that the commercialization of football with hundreds of millions in transfers and millions in salaries for the stars in the age of globalization in a market economy was inevitable.

Valdano studied law and worked as a management consultant in Madrid. In June 2009 he returned to Real Madrid as General Manager. After disagreements with José Mourinho , his post was resigned in May 2011.

Escuela de Estudios Universitarios

Jorge Valdano

From October 2006 he took over the management of the Escuela de Estudios Universitarios, a kind of football university founded by Real Madrid and the European University of Madrid. He also works as a commentator for the Qatari broadcaster BeIN Sports .

Others

One of Raúl's four sons is named after him.

literature

• Jorge Valdano: About football . Bombus Media, ISBN 3-936261-46-6 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Agencia estatal - boletín oficial: Agencia estatal - boletín oficial. In: www.boe.es. Agencia estatal - boletín oficial, accessed May 18, 2020 (Spanish). 
2. ↑ Thomas Urban : "For me it was as if capitalism should devour our football" , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , August 17, 2018, p. 22.
3. ^ Víctor Malo, Víctor Malo: Bein Sports ficha a Zubizarreta como comentarista. Retrieved May 18, 2020 .