Juan Carlos Lorenzo

Juan Carlos Lorenzo
Juan Carlos Lorenzo (1987)
Personnel
birthday	October 22, 1922
place of birth	Buenos Aires ,  Argentina
date of death	November 14, 2001
Place of death	Buenos Aires ,  Argentina
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1940-1945	Chacarita Juniors	79 (20)
1945-1947	Boca Juniors	25 0(8)
1947-1952	Sampdoria Genoa	77 (19)
1952-1953	FC Nancy	56 (23)
1954-1957	Atlético Madrid	12 0(3)
1957-1958	Rayo Vallecano
1958	RCD Mallorca
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1958-1960	RCD Mallorca
1961–1962	San Lorenzo
1962	Argentina
1962-1964	Lazio Rome
1964-1965	AS Roma
1965	San Lorenzo
1966	Argentina
1966	River Plate
1967	RCD Mallorca
1968-1971	Lazio Rome
1972	San Lorenzo
1973-1975	Atlético Madrid
1975-1976	Unión de Santa Fe
1976-1979	Boca Juniors
1980	Racing Club
1981	Argentinos Juniors
1981-1982	San Lorenzo
1982-1983	Velez Sarsfield
1983	Club Atlético Atlanta
1984-1985	Lazio Rome
1985	San Lorenzo
1987	Boca Juniors
1 Only league games are given.

Juan Carlos Lorenzo (born October 22, 1922 in Buenos Aires ; † November 14, 2001 ibid) was an Argentine football player and later coach. Not particularly successful as an active player, he coached the Argentine national soccer team at two soccer world championships and was also active in Spain , where he reached the final of the European Cup with Atlético Madrid , and in Italy . He also won the Copa Libertadores twice with Boca Juniors .

Player career

Juan Carlos Lorenzo began playing football in 1940 with the Chacarita Juniors , a smaller first division club from the Argentine capital Buenos Aires , where he was born in 1922. For the Chacarita Juniors Lorenzo was active in the following six years and came to 79 missions and twenty goals in the league of Argentine football. In 1945 he moved to the Boca Juniors , where he was under contract for two and a half years and made twenty-five league appearances. In the summer of 1947 he was signed by the still young Italian club Sampdoria Genua , which had only been founded a year earlier from a merger of SG Andrea Doria and SG Sampierdarenese , and played for Sampdoria in the next few years until 1952. However, it did not achieve great success, in most years placements in the middle of the ranking were achieved at the end of the seasons, with a fifth place in the Serie A 1948/49 particularly noteworthy. For the 1952/53 season, Juan Carlos Lorenzo moved to France and joined FC Nancy , a football club that no longer exists today and that played in Division 1, now Ligue 1 , in the 1950s . From 1952 to 1953 Lorenzo made 56 league appearances for the Nancy club , scoring twenty-three goals. In 1954 he changed clubs again and then played for Atlético Madrid in Spain . Here, however, he could not assert himself and came in three years only to twelve league appearances with three goals, which prompted him to change club membership again in 1957. Between 1957 and 1958 Lorenzo was active for the third largest club in Madrid, Rayo Vallecano , but after only one year he went on to RCD Mallorca , where he ended his active career in 1958 and soon after became a coach.

Coaching career

Beginnings in Mallorca

After the end of his active football career, Juan Carlos Lorenzo became a coach. Immediately after the end of his career, he took over the position of coach at his last club as a player, the Spanish third division club RCD Mallorca. Lorenzo worked extremely successfully on Mallorca and in his first year made it to the Segunda División by taking first place in the Tercera División , which was then the third highest football league in Spain. For the first time since relegation in 1954, Mallorca was second class again in the 1959/60 season. Juan Carlos Lorenzo's team also presented itself very well in the Segunda División and, with a first place in season two, made it one point ahead of Córdoba CF from third to first division, which marked the first promotion of RCD Mallorca in the first division ever meant.

But even before the first division season 1960/61 began, Juan Carlos Lorenzo left RCD Mallorca and went back to his home country Argentina, where he coached CA San Lorenzo de Almagro , which he would coach four more times in the further course of his coaching career. Lorenzo, whose work was very much based on that of Helenio Herrera , the famous coach of the Grande Inter of Internazionale Milan , who placed great emphasis on a solid defense, remained great successes, but was denied at CA San Lorenzo de Almagro. After two years in the Almagro district of Bonaren, he returned to Europe in 1962 and was employed in Italy's Serie A at Lazio Rome .

Short-term work as a national coach

Juan Carlos Lorenzo coached the national soccer team of his home country twice for a very short time. In 1962 he took over the position of national coach from José D'Amico and looked after the team around Antonio Rattín , José Sanfilippo and Silvio Marzolini at the world championship in the same year in neighboring Chile . The world tournament ended for Argentina with the disappointing elimination after the preliminary round with a third place in Group 3 behind Hungary and England and before Bulgaria . After the end of the tournament, Juan Carlos Lorenzo was replaced by Néstor Rossi , who did not stay in office for long and was soon replaced by D'Amico, his predecessor to Lorenzo.

After in the meantime, in addition to Rossi and D'Amico, José Maria Minella and Osvaldo Zubeldía held the office of national coach of Argentina, in 1966 Juan Carlos Lorenzo was again responsible for the sporting success with the gauchos . In contrast to the 1962 World Championships in Chile, the 1966 World Cup in England was more successful for Argentina, reaching second place in the group stage behind Germany , which was wrested in a goalless draw with the help of an over-tough game and a field reference against José Albrecht , and ahead of Spain and Switzerland . In front of 90,000 spectators at Wembley Stadium in London , Lorenzo's team was eliminated in the quarter-finals against the hosts and eventual world champions from the motherland of football.

Activity in Rome

Shortly after the 1962 World Cup and his expulsion from the Argentine national soccer team, Juan Carlos Lorenzo took over the position of coach at the traditional Italian club SS Lazio from the capital Rome . However, at the beginning of the sixties to Lazio was in a period of lack of sporting success, were spent since Erstligaabstieg in the season 1960/61 , following two seasons in Italy's second highest football league, the series B . After the direct resurgence in 1962 was not successful, the management of the club signed Juan Carlos Lorenzo as coach for the 1962/63 season. This led the Romans back to Serie A by finishing third in Serie B behind FC Messina and AS Bari , but three points ahead of fourth-placed Brescia Calcio , who did not rise . The Serie A 1963/64 finished Lorenzo's team in ninth place in the table, with which relegation was safely achieved. At the end of the season, Lazio separated three points from FC Modena , the first relegated team. The following season 1964/65 could not be made nearly as successful and Lazio played in the lowest regions of the table from the start. Due to sporting failure, Juan Carlos Lorenzo was dismissed during the first half of the 1965/66 season and replaced by the Italian Umberto Mannocci , who saved the club from relegation.

A little later, Juan Carlos Lorenzo became the coach of AS Roma , Lazio's greatest rival. With Juan Carlos Lorenzo the Roma reached the participation in the Messestädte-Pokal 1965/66 , where the elimination came in the first round against the English top club Chelsea . AS Roma had already taken part in the Cup of Exhibition Cities in the preseason and had been coached by the new coach Lorenzo at some games. After victories over Aris Thessaloniki from Greece and NK Zagreb from Yugoslavia, the third round was reached, where they failed against the Hungarian record champions Ferencváros Budapest , who won the Exhibition City Cup a few weeks later against Juventus Turin . Despite the success at international level and the ninth place in the Serie A 1965/66 Lorenzo's contract in Rome was not extended and he was replaced by Oronzo Pugliese in the 1966/67 season .

Many clubs in a few years

In 1966 Juan Carlos Lorenzo was coached for the second time by CA San Lorenzo de Almagro. However, he was only active here for a very short time, as he was also the national coach of his home country for the second time in the same year. At the World Cup in England, four players from CA San Lorenzo de Almagro, whom Lorenzo had received positively, were in the South American squad. These four were José Varacka , already experienced in the national team , who was already in the squad for the 1962 world tournament, and José Albrecht, as well as Oscar Calics and Mario Chaldú , who traveled to England without having made an international match, and later no longer played a major role in National team played.

Overall, Juan Carlos Lorenzo coached various clubs towards the end of the 1960s, but was only responsible for sporting success for a relatively short time. But great ones do not succeed. Among other things, Lorenzo was coach at River Plate in 1966 , where he succeeded Renato Cesarini , who had led the prestigious club into the final of the Copa Libertadores for the first time in its history , but was defeated by CA Peñarol from Uruguay's capital Montevideo . But Lorenzo did not bring the desired success and soon lost his job to José D'Amico. In 1967 Juan Carlos Lorenzo returned to the coaching bench of the RCD Mallorca, which had meanwhile been relegated to the Segunda División. The plan to rise again to the Primera División failed, however, and Lorenzo went to Lazio Rome in 1967, which he coached again from 1968 to 1971. In his first season as a Lazio coach, he led the club back into Serie A in 1968/69, where in the 1969/70 season he stayed in class through an eighth place including participation in the 1970/71 Messestädte Cup , the last of its kind before the introduction of the UEFA Cup , at all. Here, however, as in the entire 1970/71 season, there were no great successes. In the league, Lazio occupied the penultimate place after all match days and had to relegate to Serie B, whereupon Juan Carlos Lorenzo was relieved of his office.

A little later he signed a contract with San Lorenzo de Almagro for the third time and was again coach of the first division team of the Buenos Aires club for a year. In that one year, 1972, Juan Carlos Lorenzo was enormously successful with San Lorenzo and won both Argentine championship titles, the season was then, as now, with a slightly different mode, played in two half-yearly championships, each of which determined a title holder. In 1972, San Lorenzo managed to win both the Torneo Metropolitano and the Torneo Nacional. In the Metropolitano they came first with a six point lead over the Racing Club from Avellaneda . In the Nacional they were victorious in the final 1-0 against River Plate. After winning this title, Juan Carlos Lorenzo announced his departure from Almagro. After half a year of unemployment, he became coach of the reigning Spanish champions Atlético Madrid in the summer of 1973 .

Success at Atlético Madrid

In 1973, Juan Carlos Lorenzo took over the coaching position at Atlético Madrid from the Austrian Max Merkel , who had led the club in the Primera División 1972/73 to win the Spanish football championship. As a result, Atlético was eligible to compete in the 1973/74 European Cup . After defeating Galatasaray Istanbul from Turkey in the first round, Dinamo Bucharest from Romania in the second round , Red Star Belgrade from Yugoslavia in the quarter-finals and Celtic Glasgow from Scotland in the semifinals , they met FC Bayern Munich in the final , which was for both Teams the first participation in a final in the Cup of national champions meant. In the first leg at the Heysel Stadium of Brussels had the team of Juan Carlos Lorenzo, where players like to Luis Aragones , Adelardo Rodríguez and José Eulogio Gárate were, Munich on the brink of defeat when Georg Schwarzenbeck until the 120th game minute the opening goal could equalize by Aragonés. The second leg two days later in the same place ended with a clear 4-0 for Bayern, which won them the European Cup.

Reaching the final of the 1973/74 European Cup was the greatest success for Juan Carlos Lorenzo at Atlético Madrid. During the 1974/75 season he was dismissed and replaced by Luis Aragonés, which meant the first coaching station for this. In 1975 Juan Carlos Lorenzo signed a contract with Unión de Santa Fe in Argentina's Primera División. At the club from Santa Fe he worked until 1976 before he began to work for the Boca Juniors .

Triumphs with Boca Juniors

In his first year at Boca Juniors, Juan Carlos Lorenzo was able to repeat what he had done in 1972 at CA San Lorenzo de Almagro, namely winning the Metropolitan and National Championships in the same year. In the Metropolitano competition of 1976 they took first place in the championship playoff with three points ahead of CA Huracán , who had ranked before Boca at the end of the normal season. A short time later, the juniors won their second league title within a year, and the Nacional won the final against eternal rivals River Plate 1-0. Due to the success at national level, the Boca Juniors were qualified for the Copa Libertadores 1977 . There they finished first in the preliminary round ahead of River Plate and the Uruguayan teams Club Atlético Defensor and Peñarol , and later paved the way to the final with a first place in the second group phase ahead of Deportivo Cali from Colombia and Club Libertad from Paraguay . There you met the Brazilian representative Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte . After both teams had won once each, a playoff had to decide the winner in the Libertadores Cup and the Boca Juniors prevailed on penalties at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo . After winning the Copa Libertadores for the first time, the Boca Juniors played successfully for the World Cup a few months later . The winner of the 1976/77 European Cup , Borussia Mönchengladbach , was defeated 2-2 and 3-0. A year later, Boca was again eligible for the Copa Libertadores. Again, the team played around players like Hugo Gatti , Francisco Sá and Rubén Suñé very successfully and reached the final again after successes against River Plate and Atlético Mineiro . Against Deportivo Cali, the first Colombian finalist in the Copa Libertadores, the team of coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo held their own with 0-0 in Cali and 4-0 at their home stadium La Bombonera . The subsequent World Cup game did not take place because both the Juniors and Liverpool FC refused to participate.

Overall, Juan Carlos Lorenzo's commitment to Boca Juniors was the most successful of his career. He won a total of five important titles with the club from the working-class district of La Boca , and this at a time that was unfavorable for the club, as the club had great dislike on the part of the totalitarian military regime Jorge Rafael Videlas because of the Boca Juniors have always been viewed as an association of the working class and the junta was critical of it.

Last years as a coach

After his departure from Boca Juniors in 1979, Juan Carlos Lorenzo's time of greater success also ended. The coach managed to win a single title in the following years of his career. In 1983 he led the traditional club Club Atlético Atlanta to win the second Argentine division, but was only responsible for the first twelve league games before he was fired and his successor ended the season. In general, the last ten years of Lorenzo's coaching career were characterized by frequent club changes. He briefly coached the Racing Club from Avellaneda (1980), the Argentinos Juniors (1981), Atlanta (1983), CA San Lorenzo de Almagro (1985) and the Boca Juniors (1989). For two years each he was a trainer at San Lorenzo de Almagro (1981 to 1982), CA Vélez Sársfield (1982 to 1983) and Lazio Rome (1984 to 1985). Juan Carlos Lorenzo's last coaching position was Boca Juniors in 1989.

After leaving the football business, Juan Carlos Lorenzo lived in Buenos Aires. He died there on November 14, 2001 at the age of 79.

successes

• World Cup : 1 ×

1977 with the Boca Juniors

• Copa Libertadores : 2 ×

1977 and 1978 with the Boca Juniors

• Argentine Football Championship : 4 ×

Metropolitano 1972 and Nacional 1972 with CA San Lorenzo

Metropolitano 1976 and Nacional 1976 with the Boca Juniors

• Primera B Nacional : 1 ×

1983 with CA Atlanta

• Coppa Italia : 1 ×

1963/64 with AS Roma

• Series B : 1 ×

1968/69 with Lazio Rome

• Segunda División : 1 ×

1959/60 with RCD Mallorca

Web links

• Juan Carlos Lorenzo in the database of weltfussball.de
• Lorenzo biography
• Bio on the RCD Mallorca website
• Information about the player career
• Data on Lorenzo

Individual evidence

1. ↑ latimes.com Juan Carlos Lorenzo dies (English)