Ricardo La Volpe

Ricardo La Volpe
Ricardo La Volpe (2008)
Personnel
birthday	February 6, 1952
place of birth	Buenos Aires ,  Argentina
size	180 cm
position	goalkeeper
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1971-1975	CA Banfield
1975-1988	CA San Lorenzo
1979-1982	CF Atlante	110 (0)
1982-1983	CF Oaxtepec	43 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1975-1988	Argentina	8 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1983-1984	CF Oaxtepec
1984-1986	Ángeles de Puebla
1988-1989	CF Atlante
1989-1990	Deportivo Guadalajara
1990-1991	Querétaro FC
1991-1996	CF Atlante
1996	Club America
1997-2001	Atlas Guadalajara
2001-2003	Deportivo Toluca
2002-2006	Mexico
2006	Boca Juniors
2007	Velez Sarsfield
2008	CF Monterrey
2000	Atlas Guadalajara
2010	Nacional Montevideo
2010-2011	Costa Rica
2011–2012	CA Banfield
2012-2013	Atlante
1 Only league games are given.

Ricardo Antonio La Volpe Quarchione (born February 6, 1952 in Buenos Aires , Argentina ) is a former football player and current coach . From 2002 to 2006 he was the head coach of the Mexican national team .

Career as a player

La Volpe played his professional career between 1970 and 1983 in Argentina and most recently in Mexico. For the 1978 World Cup , national coach César Luis Menotti appointed him as the third goalkeeper in the Argentine national team that won the tournament.

Career as a coach

In Mexico, La Volpe worked for numerous clubs before joining the association; He started as a coach at Oaxtepec from 1983 to 84, his subsequent stations in Mexico were Ángeles (1984 to 1986), Guadalajara (1989 to 1990), Querétaro (1990 to 1991), Atlante (1991 to 1996), America (during the season 1996/97), Atlas (1997 to 2001) and in Toluca (from 2001 to 2002). With Atlante he won the Mexican championship in the 1992/93 season. Through his coaching stations he was very familiar with Mexican football and was signed by the Mexican Association on February 4, 2003. The dark-haired man with a bushy mustache was the successor to Javier Aguirre Onaindia, who fell out of favor at the 2002 World Cup when he was out of favor in the second round against the USA .

Born in Buenos Aires, the Argentine, who has lived in Mexico for a long time and is married to a Mexican woman, was not very popular when he started out. On the one hand because Argentines are not exactly popular in Central and South America and on the other hand because La Volpe, as the former third national goalkeeper, could not bring a great reputation as a player. He started his coaching debut against his home country Argentina and lost just 0-1.

In the two years of his service, he had turned the Mexican team into a technically brilliant, tactically trained and athletically strong unit. Until the defeat in the Confederation Cup semi-finals in 2005 against Argentina (on penalties), his team were unbeaten in 20 games, the defeat against Brazil at the Copa America was also the last so far. The other four games of the last five meetings with the Brazilians were won, e.g. B. 1-0 in the second group game of the Confederations Cup 2005.

At the 2006 World Cup , Mexico made it to the round of 16, but then failed against Argentina with a 2-1 win after extra time. Due to this defeat, La Volpe could not improve in its public image.

After the World Cup he was coach of the Boca Juniors in his home country , but resigned after only a few months after his team had surprisingly lost the decider for the championship in 2006 against Estudiantes de La Plata . From 2006 to 2010 La Volpe failed to stay with one of his clubs for more than a calendar year. After leaving Boca Juniors, he trained Vélez Sársfield in quick succession in 2007 (contract signed in late December 2006), CF Monterrey in 2008 , Atlas Guadalajara in 2009 and Nacional Montevideo in 2010 . In September 2010 he was appointed head coach of the Costa Rican national team, but gave up this post in August 2011 due to differences of opinion with the players. On August 28, he succeeded Sebastián Méndez, who had been dismissed the day before, as coach at the Argentine first division club CA Banfield , whom he took over as bottom of the Apertura 2011 table. At the end of December 2011 he was replaced there by Jorge da Silva and at the beginning of January 2012 he dissolved his contract with the Argentines. From May 2012 until the end of January 2013 he was a coach at the Mexican club Atlante . He resigned from this post on health grounds because of an operation due to an aneurysm on the abdominal aorta .

Trivia

La Volpe is known to be a passionate chain smoker . In the German media he is therefore often called "El Fluppe" in German-speaking countries, while otherwise he is nicknamed Bigoton because of his eye-catching mustache .

Web links

• Ricardo La Volpe in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ La Volpe no longer communicates with Costa Rica , kicker.de from August 13, 2011 (accessed on August 13, 2011)
2. ↑ La Volpe se despide del fútbol tico , notice on the website of the Costa Rican Football Association of August 12, 2011 (Spanish, accessed August 13, 2011)
3. ↑ Da Silva empezó a trabajar en Banfield - Mucho ruido (Spanish) on www.futbol.com.uy of January 5, 2012, accessed on January 6, 2012
4. ↑ La Volpe needs success at Atlante ( Memento from May 30, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) from May 7, 2012, accessed on March 26, 2013
5. ↑ Soccer-Coach La Volpe quits Atlante for surgery on major artery (English) from January 29, 2013, accessed on March 26, 2013