José Manuel de la Torre

José Manuel de la Torre
Personnel
Surname	José Manuel de la Torre Menchaca
birthday	November 13, 1965
place of birth	Guadalajara ,  Mexico
size	176 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	CD Guadalajara
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1984-1988	CD Guadalajara	116 0(7)
1988-1989	Real Oviedo	32 0(8)
1989-1991	Puebla FC	82 (15)
1991-1993	Cruz Azul	56 (17)
1993-1995	CD Guadalajara	55 (12)
1995-1996	Tigres	25 0(3)
1996	Puebla FC	9 0(0)
1997-1999	Necaxa	40 0(1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1987-1992	Mexico	28 0(6)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
2006-2007	Guadalajara
2008-2010	Toluca
2010-2013	Mexico
1 Only league games are given.

José Manuel de la Torre Menchaca (born November 13, 1965 in Guadalajara , Jalisco ), also known by the nickname el Chepo , is a Mexican football coach and former player who was mostly used in midfield . From October 19, 2010 to September 7, 2013 he coached the Mexican national team .

biography

player

De la Torre comes from the offspring of CD Guadalajara , in whose ranks he began his professional career in 1984 and for whom he also completed most of the league games (a total of 171). He celebrated his greatest success with his home club as a player in the 1986/87 season, at the end of which Club Guadalajara celebrated its first championship after 17 lean years. Two more championship titles followed in 1990 with Puebla and in winter 1998 with Necaxa . The special thing about his third success was that the finals were won against his former club Guadalajara.

Between 1987 and 1992 "El Chepo" played a total of 28 international matches and scored 6 goals. A World Cup participation was denied him; Among other things, because Mexico was banned from participating in the 1990 World Cup because of a violation of FIFA regulations .

Trainer

His training association Chivas Guadalajara was also his first station as a trainer. In the Clausura 2006 ( 2005/06 season ) he replaced the previous coach Hans Westerhof on March 18, 2006 with a 1-0 opening win against Cruz Azul and led the team straight away to the semi-finals of the Liguilla , where they beat the eventual champions Pachuca lost. In the following Apertura 2006 ( 2006/07 season ) his team knew how to convince again and in the end won their first championship title in ten years. It was her eleventh title in total, so that she has since been the sole record champion of the Primera División in front of arch-rivals America (10 titles).

After his release from Chivas on September 27, 2007, he took over with Deportivo Toluca FC before the 2008/09 season , of all things, against which Club Guadalajara had prevailed in the finals of the Apertura 2006. In his first season (Apertura 2008), he immediately led the club from the capital of the state of México to its ninth championship.

On October 19, 2010, de la Torre was introduced as the new coach of the Mexican national team - as the successor to Javier Aguirre, who resigned in June of the same year . In the meantime, Enrique Meza and Efraín Flores had looked after the team as interim coach. De la Torre held this position for almost three years before he was dismissed on September 7, 2013 after a home defeat in the World Cup qualifier against Honduras (1: 2).

successes

As a player

• Mexican champion: 1987, 1990, Invierno 1998

As a trainer

• Mexican champion: Apertura 2006, Apertura 2008, Bicentenario 2010, Gold Cup winner 2011

Individual references and web links

1. ↑ José Manuel de la Torre in the database of weltfussball.de
2. ↑ Kicker Online: De la Torre is the new coach of the "Tri"
3. ^ Enrico Barz: Dismissed coach in Mexico. In: fussball-wm-total.de. FOOTBALL WORLD CUP total, September 8, 2013, accessed on September 8, 2013 .