Juan Antonio Pizzi

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Juan Antonio Pizzi
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Juan Antonio Pizzi (1987)
Personnel
Surname Juan Antonio Pizzi Torroja
birthday 7th June 1968
place of birth Santa FeArgentina
size 185 cm
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1988-1990 Rosario Central 57 (27)
1990-1991 Deportivo Toluca 30 (12)
1991-1993 CD Tenerife 68 (30)
1993-1994 Valencia CF 19 0(4)
1994-1996 CD Tenerife 73 (46)
1996-1998 FC Barcelona 48 (11)
1998-1999 River Plate 17 0(6)
1999-2000 Rosario Central 28 (19)
2000 FC Porto 11 0(3)
2001 Rosario Central 28 (11)
2002 Villarreal CF 13 0(1)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1994-1998 Spain 22 0(8)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2005 CA Colón
2006 Universidad San Martín de Porres
2009-2010 Santiago Morning
2010-2011 Universidad Católica
2011–2012 Rosario Central
2012-2013 San Lorenzo
2013-2014 Valencia CF
2014-2016 Club León
2016-2017 Chile
2017– Saudi Arabia
1 Only league games are given.

Juan Antonio Pizzi Torroja (born June 7, 1968 in Santa Fe , Argentina ) is a former Argentinian football player and current coach . He has been a Spanish citizen since 1994 and played for Spain from 1994 to 1998 .

Career

Player career

Pizzi began his career in 1988 with Rosario Central , after just one year he moved to the Mexican club Deportivo Toluca . Another year later he went to Europe to CD Tenerife . At this club he was very successful with 30 goals in 68 games and helped the team to qualify for the 1993/94 UEFA Cup . Logically, he went to the Spanish top club Valencia CF in 1993 , where he could not leave a lasting impression in one season, so that he returned to CD Tenerife after just one year. There he was the top scorer in the 1995/96 season with 31 goals in 41 games.

In 1996 he joined FC Barcelona . During his two-year stay he could not really against Ronaldo , Sonny Anderson and Luis Enrique prevail and scored only 11 league goals, although Barça winning the championship ( 1998 ), the Spanish Cup (1997, 1998) and the European Cup Winners' Cup in 1997 very was successful.

In 1998 he went back to his homeland to join River Plate . After playing for FC Porto , FC Villarreal and two more for Rosario Central until 2002 , he ended his playing career.

Between 1994 and 1998 he played 22 games for the Spanish national team and took part in the 1996 European Championship and the 1998 World Cup.

Coaching career

Juan Antonio Pizzi 2016

In 2005 Juan Antonio Pizzi began his coaching career at Colón de Santa Fe . There, however, he was quickly dismissed after three defeats in the first three games. From 2009 to 2010 he coached the Chilean club Santiago Morning , then he was coach of CD Universidad Católica . He continued the work of his predecessor Marco Antonio Figueroa and won the championship at the end of 2010. With the club, Pizzi also succeeded in reaching the quarter-finals of the 2011 Copa Libertadores after surprisingly defeating Brazilian representative Gremio Porto Alegre in the round of the last sixteen teams . A round later the end came against CA Peñarol from Uruguay , which later failed in the final at Santos FC . In the league, Juan Antonio Pizzi was initially successful as the coach of Universidad Católica. With three points ahead of Universidad de Chile they won the Torneo Apertura in the table, but had to admit defeat to that club in the playoff games for the championship of Apertura. After the 4-1 defeat in the second leg, after they had won the home game 2-0, Juan Antonio Pizzi announced his resignation as coach at Universidad Católica and was replaced by Mario Lepe .

A little later, Juan Antonio Pizzi took over the coaching position at his hometown club Rosario Central. This had meanwhile crashed into the second Argentine league, the Primera B Nacional . With San Lorenzo he won the Apertura in 2013 . At the end of December 2013, he replaced Miroslav Đukić as coach of the Spanish first division club Valencia CF , for which he had been active in 1993/94.

On January 30, 2016, he succeeded his resigned compatriot Jorge Sampaoli as coach of the Chilean national team . Pizzi led the Chilean national team into the final of the Confederations Cup 2017 , after failing to qualify for the 2018 World Cup , he resigned from his post in October 2017. In November 2017 he was introduced as the new coach of the Saudi Arabian national team.

successes

As a player

As a trainer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Resolución de 7 de febrero de 1995, de la Dirección General de los Registros y del Notariado, por la que, en cumplimiento de lo dispuesto en el artículo 223 del Reglamento del Registro Civil, se acuerda publicar la relación de concesiones y aprobaciones de nacionalidad durante el segundo semestre de 1994 (span.)
  2. fifa.com: "Pizzi is the new national coach for Chile"