Manuel Fleitas Solich

Manuel Fleitas Solich
Manuel Fleitas Solich 1924
Personnel
Surname	Manuel Agustin Fleitas Solich
birthday	December 30, 1900
place of birth	Asunción ,  Paraguay
date of death	March 24, 1984
Place of death	Rio de Janeiro ,  Brazil
size	193 cm
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1918-1926	Club Nacional
1927-1931	Boca Juniors	99 (15)
1932	CA Platense
1933	CA Talleres
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1917-1932	Paraguay	at least 32 (6)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1922-1929	Paraguay
1932	CA Lanus
1933	Newell's Old Boys
1934-1935	Quilmes AC
1936	CA Talleres
1937	CA Lanus
1937-1938	Club Nacional
1939	Paraguay
1940-1941	River Plate Asunción
1942	Club Olimpia
1942	Paraguay
1943-1944	Club Libertad
1944-1945	Newell's Old Boys
1945-1946	Paraguay
1946	CA Lanus
1947	Quilmes AC
1947-1953	Paraguay
1953-1957	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro
1958-1959	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro
1959-1960	real Madrid
1960–1962	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro
1962-1965	Paraguay
1963-1964	Fluminense Rio de Janeiro
1966	Palmeiras São Paulo
1967-1968	Atlético Mineiro
1970-1971	EC Bahia
1971	Flamengo Rio de Janeiro
1 Only league games are given.

Manuel Agustin Fleitas Solich (born December 30, 1900 in Asunción , Paraguay , † March 24, 1984 in Rio de Janeiro , Brazil ) was a Paraguayan football player and coach .

Career as a player

Manuel Agustin Fleitas Solich was the son of an important Paraguayan journalist , but he preferred to become a soccer player instead of following in his father's footsteps. Always polite and courteous, he was popular and became captain of the Paraguayan national team at the age of 17 . As a club footballer, he was able to win the Paraguayan championship with Club Nacional in 1924 and 1926 . In 1927 he moved to the Boca Juniors in neighboring Argentina. He led the team in 1930 as captain to the last championship title of the amateur age before 18 clubs split off from the Argentine Football Association in 1931 and founded a professional league. In the same year Fleitas Solich stopped due to his many injuries, but tried briefly a comeback in 1932 at CA Platense and CA Talleres. During his time as an active soccer player, he was given countless nicknames. He was best known under el brujo (the witcher ), el altísimo (the giant) and Alfagía .

Career as a coach

During his time as an active soccer player, from 1922 to 1929 he was coach and player of the Paraguayan national team. So it was not surprising that, after he had ended his active career in 1932, he was back in the football business as a coach as early as 1933. From 1933 to 1937 he coached several Argentine clubs before returning to Paraguay in 1937 to manage his parent club from the bank. In 1939 he took over the leadership of the Paraguayan national team again. It would not be the last time that he led the fortunes of Albirroja - he was their national coach a total of six times and led the team to their first international title, the 1953 Copa America . From 1937 to 1944 he headed several clubs, where he was Paraguayan champion with Club Libertad in 1943 . Then he went back to Argentina to do his coaching job. After winning the Copa América in 1953, he was hired by the traditional club CR Flamengo in Rio de Janeiro and immediately managed a title hat-trick in the state championship of Rio de Janeiro after a ten-year drought between 1953 and 1955 .

In 1959 he became the first Paraguayan coach to venture across the Atlantic and coached Real Madrid for one season , where he brought the Brazilian world champion from 1958 Valdir Pereira "Didi" to the club. After this European interlude, he returned to Brazil and coached several clubs until 1971. The last successes were the two national championships in Bahia in 1970 and 1971. In June 1971 he returned to Flamengo to Rio where he ended his career on December 12th of that year with a 1: 4 defeat against Fluminense.

Rio de Janeiro remained his hometown and he died there of cancer in 1984 at the age of 83. He was buried in the presence of numerous former players and colleagues such as Flávio Costa and Zezé Moreira in the São João Batista cemetery in the south of Rio. The coffin was covered with the Flamengo club flag. "Don Fleitas", as he was also called in Rio, left three sons.

Success as a player

• Paraguayan champions : 1924, 1926
• Argentine champion : 1930

Success as a trainer

• Copa America : 1953
• Paraguayan champion : 1943
• Torneio Rio-São Paulo : 1961
• National Championship of Rio de Janeiro : 1953, 1954, 1955
• Bahia State Championship : 1970, 1971

Web links

Commons : Manuel Fleitas Solich  - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Niels-Oliver Walkowski: Manuel Fleitas Solich ( Memento of the original from November 13, 2007 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . In: albigol.com , 2006. Retrieved June 22, 2010.