Néstor Clausen

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Néstor Clausen
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Personnel
Surname Néstor Rolando Clausen
birthday September 29, 1962
place of birth Arrufo ,  Argentina
position Defender
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1980-1988 CA Independiente 260 (7)
1989-1994 FC Sion 73 (2)
1994-1995 Racing Club 22 (0)
1995-1996 CA Independiente 15 (0)
1997-1998 Arsenal de Sarandí 12 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1983-1988 Argentina 26 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1999-2001 CA Independiente Juvenil
2001-2002 CA Independiente
2002-2003 Oriente Petrolero
2003-2004 Club The Strongest
2004-2005 Chacarita Juniors
2006-2007 FC Sion
2007-2008 Oman (assistant)
2008-2009 Neuchâtel Xamax
2009 Al Kuwait Kaifan
2010 Club Bolívar
2011 Club The Strongest
2011 Dubai Club
2012-2013 Club blooming
2013– Jorge Wilstermann
1 Only league games are given.

Néstor Rolando Clausen (born September 29, 1962 in Arrufo , Santa Fe ) is a former Argentine football player and current coach . He was a soccer world champion in 1986 and won the Copa Libertadores and the World Cup with CA Independiente in 1984 .

Player career

Club career

Néstor Clausen played the first nine years of his football career for his hometown club CA Independiente from the industrial Bonaren suburb of Avellaneda . From 1980 to 1988 he made a total of 260 league games for Independiente and scored seven goals. After the Metropolitano competition of the Argentine Primera División was won by a first place with one point ahead of CA San Lorenzo de Almagro in 1983 , Clausen was qualified for the 1984 Copa Libertadores with Independiente . At the tournament, coach José Pastoriza's team reached the final, where they met Brazilian representative Gremio Porto Alegre . The first leg was won 1-0 by a goal from Jorge Burruchaga in Porto Alegre , with Independiente's goalless draw in the second leg at their home country Estadio Almirante Cordero to win the Copa Libertadores for the seventh time in the club's history . A short time later, they also won the World Cup 1-0 against the winner of the 1983/84 European Cup , Liverpool FC . 1984 was the most successful for Néstor Clausen with Independiente. After that only one more title could be won, in the last year Clausen's at Independiente they became champions again. Néstor Clausen played in Avellaneda until 1989, before joining the Swiss first division club FC Sion for the 1989/90 season.

In the FC Sion jersey, Néstor Clausen made 73 games in the league of the Swiss football championship between 1989 and 1994. In 1990/91 he won the Swiss Cup with Sion, the Swiss Cup . The following year, you could also the first championship of the FC Sion at all celebrate that with a first place in the first football league Switzerland, Axpo Super League , then under the name of National League A known with a point before the Grasshoppers of Zurich won could be. The next few years were less successful for Clausen and FC Sion and he left the club in 1994 to return to Argentina to the Racing Club in Avellaneda, the greatest rival of his former club Independiente, to which he returned after 22 league games for Racing . After another year with Independiente, he played from 1997 to 1998 for the third club from Avellaneda, Arsenal de Sarandí , before ending his active career in 1998 at the age of 36.

National team

From 1983 to 1988 Néstor Clausen made 26 international matches in the Argentine national soccer team . The defender scored a goal. After he had already participated in the Copa America three years earlier , Argentina's national coach Carlos Bilardo Clausen appointed him to the squad for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico . At the tournament, Clausen was only used in the first group game, the 3-1 win against South Korea . His team, however, reached the final, where they met the German national team in the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City . The final was won 3-2 by Argentina, which meant the country's second world title.

Coaching career

After the end of his active football career, Néstor Clausen became a coach. After two years as youth coordinator and youth coach at CA Independiente, he became head coach of the first team of his home club in 2001. After a mixed season of Apertura, which ended in tenth place in the table, Independiente was last in the Clausura 2002, but did not rise because of the rule, according to which the relegated in Argentina's top division are determined by adding the results of the last three years. Nevertheless, Néstor Clausen had to take his hat off. A little later he became the coach of the Bolivian first division team Oriente Petrolero , where he worked for a year before he began a commitment at The Strongest La Paz and with the record champions of Bolivia in the Apertura 2003 and the Clausura in 2004 twice national champion of Bolivia, but in 2004 Club left to coach the Chacarita Juniors , with whom he was relegated in his first year to Primera B , the second Argentine division, and missed promotion the following year. In the 2006/07 season he coached FC Sion in the Swiss Super League and led the promoted team to third place and to qualify for the UEFA Cup . In the summer of 2007 his time in Sion ended, however, and he became assistant to Gabriel Calderón as the national coach of Oman . He then took over as coach at Neuchâtel Xamax in 2008 , with whom he reached seventh place in the championship. In the following years Néstor Clausen worked twice in Bolivia and trained for a short time at Club Bolívar and The Strongest. He also worked briefly for Al Kuwait Kaifan in 2009 . In 2011 he was the coach of Dubai Club , but was replaced by his assistant Umberto Barberis in September 2011 .

Néstor Clausen has been coach of the Bolivian club Club Blooming since 2012 .

successes

As a player

  • Argentine Championship : 2 × (Metropolitano 1983, 1988/89)
  • Swiss championship : 1 × (1991/92)

As a trainer

  • Bolivian championship : 2 × (Apertura 2003, Clausura 2004)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The National of October 3, 2011 , accessed November 7, 2011

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Clausen, Néstor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Clausen, Néstor Rolando (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 29, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Arrufo , Santa Fe , Argentina