Miguel Ángel López (soccer player)

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Miguel Ángel López Elhall (born March 1, 1942 in Ticino, Province of Córdoba , Argentina ), also known by the nickname el Zurdo , is an Argentine football coach and former player.

biography

player

Zurdo López began his professional career at Club Estudiantes de La Plata , soon switched to CA Ferro Carril Oeste and then to the Argentine record champions River Plate , with whom he was runner-up only three times in a row between 1968 and 1970. In the summer of 1970 López moved to CA Independiente , with whom he celebrated the greatest successes of his playing career. With this club he won the Argentine championship in 1971 , the Copa Libertadores four times in a row from 1972 to 1975 and finally the World Cup in 1973 . After five years at Independiente, López moved to the Colombian clubAtlético Nacional de Medellín , with whom he won the championship straight away in 1976 .

Trainer

At Atlético Nacional, Zurdo López also began his work as a coach, where he was responsible for the junior division in the 1977/78 season. The following season he coached Junior de Barranquilla's team for the first time , before receiving an offer from Argentinos Juniors in 1979 to coach their first team, which included a young talent named Diego Maradona . Together they became Argentine runners-up in 1980. After further positions at Independiente, Nacional de Medellin and the Boca Juniors , he came to Mexico in 1984 , where he won his first two important titles as a coach in 1985. With Club America he was twice in a row champion of the Primera División .

Immediately after these triumphs he returned to South America to train for the second time the CA Ferro Carril Oeste (1987/88) and then the Club Junior de Barranquilla. An offer from Chivas Guadalajara lured him back to Mexico in 1990, where he first coached this club and then returned to his former club América, with which he won his third title as coach in 1992: the CONCACAF Champions' Cup .

Since then he has coached various Mexican clubs; most often the Club Santos Laguna , where he worked in three stages between 1994 and 1998. He also worked once each for Club León (1996), Atlético Celaya (2001), Puebla FC (2002) and Club San Luis (2009).

López was also in Argentina at CA Independiente (1994/95) and Arsenal de Sarandí (2006), in Saudi Arabia at Club Al-Ahli (2000/01) and in the Spanish Tercera División at CD Badajoz (2002/03) under contract.

Most often, however, López worked in the service of the Colombian club Junior de Barranquilla , for which he worked in six stages (1978, 1988, 1992, 1998–1999, 2004–2005 and the last time in 2007). With this club he won the Torneo Finalización at the end of 2004 . It was the fifth and so far last championship title of this club.

successes

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personal data
SURNAME López, Miguel Ángel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES López Elhall, Miguel Ángel
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Ticino (Córdoba) , Province of Córdoba (Argentina)