Víctor Púa

Víctor Púa
Personnel
Surname	Victor Haroldo Púa Sosa
birthday	March 31, 1956
place of birth	Paso de los Toros ,  Uruguay
position	Defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1970-1974	Liverpool Montevideo
1975	Colón Fútbol Club
1976-1977	Club Atlético Bella Vista
1978-1981	Defensor
1982	Club Olimpia
1983	Defensor
1984	Rampla Juniors
1985	River Plate Montevideo
1986	Club Atlético Bella Vista
1987	Club Deportivo Mandiyú (Argentina)
1988	Club Sportivo Italiano
1989	Cerrito
1990	South America
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1983	Uruguay (Pan America Team)	4 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1990-1993	River Plate Montevideo
1994-1999	Uruguay (Juniors / U-17, U-20)
1999, 2000-2002	Uruguay (senior team)
2004	Rosario Central
2009	Peñarol
2007–2012	Peñarol (youth coordinator)
1 Only league games are given.

Víctor Haroldo Púa Sosa (born March 31, 1956 in Paso de los Toros ) is a former Uruguayan soccer player and today's soccer coach.

Player career

society

At club level, central defender Púa began in Montevideo in 1970 at Liverpool Montevideo . There he played until 1974. The following year he was under contract with Colón . Bella Vista (1976-1977) and Defensor (1978-1981) were his next stops. Púa would later return to both clubs for one more engagement. In 1982 he went to Paraguay to the Club Olimpia and in 1983 was back in the Defensors ranks. After moving within the city, he ran for the Rampla Juniors in 1984 . The following year, urban competitor River Plate Montevideo secured its services. The second position in 1986 at Bella Vista was followed by another trip abroad. There Púa joined in 1987 in Corrientes Mandiyú, Argentina . Every year he then moved from Sportivo Italiano (1988) via Cerrito (1989) to Sud América (1990). It is also recorded that he was part of the Progeso team that took part in the Copa Libertadores .

National team

Púa was a member of the Uruguayan national team . With the Uruguayan team, he represented his home country at the Pan American Games in 1983 and won the football tournament there with the Celeste . In the course of the tournament he played all four games.

Coaching

He began his coaching career according to the Nicaraguan newspaper La Prensa at the Uruguayan club River Plate Montevideo , where he initially looked after the reserves and in 1991 took over the first team. The playerhistory database, on the other hand, locates him in the years 1990 to 1992 as a trainer at the traditional Argentinian club of the same name, River Plate . However, this is also contradicted by the Costa Rican daily newspaper La Nación , which cites a period from 1990 to 1993 with the Montevideans for him. In 1994, Púa became the national junior coach of the Uruguayan national team. There he looked after both the U-17 and the U-20. With the latter he finished the 1997 U-20 World Cup in second place. Two years later he participated with the U-17 in the U-17 World Cup in 1999 in New Zealand and with the U-20 in the 1999 Junior World Cup in Nigeria . According to La Prensa , he took over the Uruguayan senior national team for the first time in 1999 , although his work as national coach at the FIFA Confederations Cup in 1997 was also occupied by FIFA, and led it to second place at the 1999 Copa America . He then succeeded the Argentinean Daniel Passarella, who was now national coach, in this position again. At the Copa America 2001 he finished 4th with Uruguay. He finished the World Cup qualification with Uruguay in fifth place in the South America group and prevailed in the play-offs against Australia. At the 2002 World Cup , Uruguay met Denmark, the reigning world champion France and the later surprise team Senegal in group A. After a 2-1 defeat against Denmark and a 0-0 win against France, Uruguay absolutely needed a win in their last group game against Senegal to make it to the round of 16. Uruguay were already 3-0 down at half-time, but fought their way back into the game and equalized to 3-3. Richard Morales missed the chance to score shortly before the end, whereupon Uruguay finished Group A in third and eliminated in the preliminary round.

From June 2004 Púa briefly coached the Argentine first division team Rosario Central , where he replaced Miguel Angel Russo . After only two games, however, he left the club due to differences with the club's management and a defeat in the local derby against Newell's Old Boys on August 23, 2004, ten days after the start of the Torneo Apertura .

On September 2, 2012, Púa resigned from his post as youth coordinator Peñarols , which he had previously held for almost five years, after the youth teams of the five Clásicos that had just been played did not win any and three times emerged as losers from the games. In the meantime, he had stepped in for the Aurinegros in 2009 as coach of the first team.

Web links

• Púa formó 87 juveniles que fueron vendidos al exterior; 57 a Europe. In: Últimas Noticias . August 12, 2008, archived from the original on March 4, 2016 ; Retrieved April 18, 2018 (Spanish). 

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} page no longer available , search in web archives: Profile on www.playerhistory.com , accessed on November 18, 2012
2. ↑ ^{a b} Uruguay: Regreso de un gigante - El Director Técnico (Spanish) on wvw.nacion.com from April 7, 2012, accessed on November 18, 2012
3. ↑ ^{a b} VÍCTOR PÚA (Spanish) on www.colombia.com, accessed on November 18, 2012
4. ↑ Panamerican Games 1983 - Match details in the RSSSF database . Retrieved August 26, 2013.
5. Jump up ↑ Uruguay's squad for the 1997 Junior World Cup on fifa.com, accessed on November 18, 2012
6. ↑ Squad of the 1999 Junior World Cup on the FIFA website ( memo of November 23, 2007 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on January 6, 2012
7. ↑ Uruguay's squad for the 1997 FIFA Confederations Cup ( Memento from June 12, 2008 in the Internet Archive ) on fifa.com, accessed on November 18, 2012
8. ↑ Copa 2002 - Uruguay vuelve a una Copa del Mundo - El pequeño gigante ( Memento of the original from March 12, 2014 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. (Spanish) in La Prensa, June 7, 2002, accessed November 18, 2012 
9. ↑ Copa América 1999 at www.rsssf.com, accessed on November 18, 2012
10. ↑ Copa América 2001 at www.rsssf.com, accessed March 30, 2014
11. ↑ Víctor Púa es el nuevo entrenador de Rosario Central (Spanish) in El País on June 15, 2004, accessed on November 18, 2012
12. ↑ Víctor Púa abandona el Rosario Central ( Memento from April 16, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) (Spanish) on www.panamaamerica.com.pa from August 24, 2004, accessed on November 18, 2012
13. ↑ Page no longer available , search in web archives: Renunció Victor Púa (Spanish), on www.camaramanya.com from September 3, 2012, accessed on November 18, 2012
14. ↑ Púa renunció “para liberar a los botijas” (Spanish), on www.180.com.uy of September 3, 2012, accessed on November 18, 2012
15. ↑ Púa renunció en Peñarol - Coletazos (Spanish), on www.futbol.com.uy of September 3, 2012, accessed on November 18, 2012
16. ↑ Planteles Históricos (Spanish), accessed December 28, 2012
17. ^ Marcos Silvera Antúnez: Club Atlético Peñarol - 120, “Directores Técnicos”, Ediciones El Galeón, Montevideo 2011, p. 192f - ISBN 978-9974-553-79-8