Pedro Troglio

Pedro Troglio
Pedro Troglio in 2006
Personnel
Surname	Pedro Antonio Troglio
birthday	July 28, 1965
place of birth	Lujan ,  Argentina
size	172 cm
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1983-1988	River Plate	59 0(3)
1988-1989	Hellas Verona	32 0(1)
1989-1991	Lazio Rome	40 0(1)
1991-1994	Ascoli Calcio	106 (13)
1994-1997	Avispa Fukuoka	56 (20)
1997-2002	Gimnasia y Esgrima LP	124 0(4)
2002-2003	Villa Dálmine	31 0(4)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1987-1990	Argentina	21 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
at least 2004	CD Godoy Cruz
2005-2007	Gimnasia y Esgrima LP
2007-2008	CA Independiente
2008-2010	Cerro Porteño
2010-2011	Argentinos Juniors
2011-2016	Gimnasia y Esgrima LP
2016-2017	CA Tigre
2017-2018	Universitario de Deportes
2018-2019	Gimnasia y Esgrima LP
1 Only league games are given.

Pedro Antonio Troglio (born July 28, 1965 in Luján ) is a former Argentine football player and current coach . He played as an active player in Argentina and Italy , took part in the 1990 World Cup and is currently the coach of the Paraguayan club Club Cerro Porteño .

Player career

Club career

Pedro Troglio started playing soccer with CA River Plate , now Argentina’s record champions in soccer, coming from the capital Buenos Aires . For River Plate Troglio played six years from 1983 to the summer of 1988 and came to 59 league games in the Primera División with three goals, but mostly did not act as a regular.

In 1988 he left River Plate and Argentina and joined Hellas Verona in Italy's Serie A on. Under coach Osvaldo Bagnoli , Pedro Troglio became an integral part of the Hellas team and contributed with 32 games this season to reaching eleventh place in Serie A in 1988/89 . For the 1989/90 season he changed the club again and joined Lazio Rome , which had been at the same level of performance as Verona in the previous season. In 1989/90 Troglio finished seventh with Lazio, while Verona was relegated only five years after the club's first championship title. Pedro Troglio stayed with Lazio Rome until 1991 and made a total of forty league games for the Romans. For the season 1991/92 , he chose the jersey of Ascoli Calcio , just from the Serie B ascended. But you couldn't stay in the top division and were the last to be relegated again. Despite the relegation, Pedro Troglio remained loyal to Ascoli and accompanied the club to Serie B, where the promotion was not made until he left the brands in 1994.

In 1994 Pedro Troglio joined Avispa Fukuoka in Japan for three years and became Japanese soccer champions with the club in 1995. He made 56 league games with twenty goals between 1994 and 1997. In 1997 he returned to his homeland and from then on played for Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata , where he played 124 games in the league before ending his footballing career in 2003 after a year with the lower-class club Villa Dálmine.

National team

Between 1987 and 1990 Pedro Troglio was used 21 times in the Argentine national football team , where he achieved two goals. After being in 1989 upon reaching the third place in the Copa America was there, he was national coach Carlos Bilardo also in the squad for the 1990 FIFA World Cup appeal in Italy. Troglio was used in almost every game in the course of the tournament, only he missed the opening defeat against Cameroon (0-1) in Milan's Giuseppe Meazza Stadium . He then became an integral part of the Argentine midfield, but was also often active as a substitute or substitute. On July 8, 1990, he was then but in the starting lineup, as the Olympic Stadium of Rome , Troglios sporting home at club level at that time, in the final of the world championship Argentina to Germany met. In the re-edition of the 1986 final, Germany had the better day this time, winning 1-0 and becoming world champions for the third time.

Coaching career

After the end of his active football career, Pedro Troglio became a coach. His first position as person in charge on the sidelines he held at the then third division CD Godoy Cruz from Mendoza , who had made a rapid rise in recent years from the amateur area to the upper regions of the Primera División. Troglio coached the club in 2004 during Primera C times. After less than a year in office, he left Godoy Cruz again to accept an offer from the distressed Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata. 2005 led Troglio Gimnasia y Esgrima back to the Primera División and managed to stay in the league the following season. In 2007 he resigned after a series of defeats, including a 7-0 draw against local rivals Estudiantes de La Plata , as well as discrepancies with supporters of GELP and was replaced by Víctor Bernay. Shortly thereafter, he was introduced by President Jorge Burruchaga as a trainer at CA Independiente . After some bad results in March 2008, however, he was replaced by Miguel Ángel Santoro . In the same year Troglio signed a contract with the traditional Paraguayan club Club Cerro Porteño , which he led in 2009 to win the Apertura championship four points ahead of Club Libertad . Also in 2009 the semi-finals of the Copa Sudamericana were reached, but where the club failed again in the round of the last four teams. In 2010 Troglio's time as coach of Cerro Porteño ended, he was now responsible for the sporting success at the Argentinos Juniors , where he succeeded master coach Claudio Borghi . But Pedro Troglio could not build on the success of his predecessor and was dismissed after a bad start in the Apertura 2011. A little later he took over the post of head coach at Gimnasia y Esgrima, where he is still successfully employed today. In July 2014, he was still the coach there.

successes

• Vice world champion

1990 with Argentina

• Japanese Football Championship : 1 × (1995)
• Paraguayan Football Championship : 1 × (Apertura 2009)

Web links

• Pedro Troglio in the database of weltfussball.de
• Player biography
• Information about the player

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Se fue a hacer Gimnasia (Spanish) on www.aguantenche.com.uy from July 1, 2014, accessed on July 5, 2014