Vicente Cantatore

Vicente Cantatore
Personnel
Surname	Vicente Cantatore Socci
birthday	October 6, 1935
place of birth	Rosario ,  Argentina
position	midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
	CA Talleres
	CA San Lorenzo
	CA Tigre
	Rangers de Talca
	Santiago Wanderers
	Deportes Concepción
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
before 1980	Lota's brother-in-law
1980-1984	CD Cobreloa
1984	Chile
1985-1986	Real Valladolid
1987-1989	Real Valladolid
1989-1991	Sevilla FC
1991-1992	Universidad Católica
1993	Rosario Central
1994	CSD Colo-Colo
1994-1995	CD Tenerife
1996-1997	Real Valladolid
1997	Sporting Lisbon
1998	Betis Seville
2000-2001	Sporting Gijón
1 Only league games are given.

Vicente Cantatore Socci (born October 6, 1935 in Rosario , Sante Fe ) is a former Argentine football player and later coach. As a player, Cantatore was not very successful in the jersey of CA San Lorenzo de Almagro , CA Tigre and the Chilean club CD Santiago Wanderers .

After the end of his active career as a football player Cantatore was coach and led CD Cobreloa twice in a row in the final of the Copa Libertadores , but both finals were lost. In addition to a brief stint with the Chilean national soccer team, he also coached for a long time in Spain , for example at Sevilla FC , Real Valladolid and Sporting Gijón .

Player career

Vicente Cantatore, born on October 6, 1935 in Rosario (Santa Fe), Argentina, in the province of Santa Fe , began playing football in Córdoba with CA Talleres , where he was under contract until 1955.

After that, Cantatore, who was found in the position of midfielder, played for CA San Lorenzo de Almagro for three years , but was only used very occasionally. His subsequent engagement at CA Tigre did not have many uses for Cantatore either, but he only stayed there for less than a year.

After the end of his time at Tigre, Cantatore left Argentina and went to Chile , where he would spend the rest of his playing career and later a significant part of his coaching career. In Chile, Vicente Cantatore played for a total of three clubs; these were one after the other the Rangers de Talca , Santiago Wanderers and Deportes Concepción , but he was not granted great success here. Vicente Cantatore's playing career ended at the latter club, after which he embarked on a thoroughly successful coaching career.

Coaching career

Great success with CD Cobreloa

Vicente Cantatore began his career as a football coach with the Chilean club Lota Schwager , where he was under contract until 1980. Lota Schwager, now long gone into the depths of lower-class Chilean football, played consistently in the Primera División at the time .

In 1980, Cantatore was signed by CD Cobreloa to succeed Andrés Prieto . Cobreloa, a club from the city of Calama in northern Chile , was founded only three years earlier and has since experienced a steep rise. Under the new coach Vicente Cantatore, Cobreloa managed to win the first championship in club history in 1980 after first place in the Primera División was occupied by three points over CF Universidad de Chile . For the first time in the club's history, Cobreloa was eligible to compete in the Copa Libertadores , the most important football competition for club teams in South America . In the Copa Libertadores 1981 they finished first in the first group stage in group five, ahead of Universidad de Chile and the two Peruvian representatives Sporting Cristal and Atlético Torino . To the general astonishment of the professional world, the second group stage was also successful when the underdog from Calama qualified for the final in front of the two Uruguayan teams from Nacional Montevideo and CA Peñarol . An opponent, Flamengo Rio de Janeiro, was waiting there , whom Cobreloa was ultimately unable to defeat. After Flamengo and Cobreloa had each won once in the two legs, a playoff had to decide the winner of the Copa Libertadores 1981. In Montevideo , Flamengo prevailed 2-0 against players like Zico , Tita or Júnior and finally won the Libertadores Cup.

"We are Chilean champions and they have to respect us!"

- Vicente Cantatore

In the league business CD Cobreloa was second behind CSD Colo-Colo in 1981 , which again entitled to participate in the Copa Libertadores. And this time too, Cantatore's team was very successful. In the first group phase, the team around players like Óscar Wirth , Enzo Escobar or Mario Soto Colo-Colo and the two Ecuadorian teams from LDU Quito and Barcelona SC Guayaquil left behind, in the second group phase they sat in front of Club Olimpia from Paraguay and Deportes Tolima from Colombia and secured another participation in the finals. This time the opponent was Peñarol Montevideo from Uruguay . After the first leg at the legendary Estadio Centenario in Montevideo had ended in a goalless draw, Cobreloa had justified hopes for a first-time triumph in the Copa Libertadores. The return leg in Santiago de Chile was also 0-0 for a long time, but Fernando Morena scored the 1-0 for Peñarol in the 89th minute of the game and thus secured his club victory in the Copa Libertadores 1982 . For the second time in a row, CD Cobreloa had missed at the last moment to win the most important continental title in South American football. To date, the club has not made it back into the final of this competition.

Vicente Cantatore remained the coach of CD Cobreloa until 1984 and was able to celebrate another championship title during this time. In the Primera División 1982 they finished first in the table with four points ahead of Colo-Colo after the end of all game days. The participation in the Copa Libertadores 1983 made possible by this ended, however, after the first group phase as second in group one behind Estudiantes de La Plata and ahead of Colo-Colo and Ferro Carril Oeste .

In 1984 Vicente Cantatore resigned at Cobreloa and succeeded Isaac Carrasco as the Chilean national coach . However, he was not granted any great successes and he lost his post after a few months.

First engagements in Europe

After the end of his work as Chilean national coach Vicente Cantatore left the South American football first and went to Europe , where he found a job at Real Valladolid in the Spanish Primera División . With the club from Castile and León he finished tenth in the 1985/86 Primera División , but was replaced by Xabier Azkargorta after the end of the season . Cantatore was subsequently out of work for a year before returning to Real Valladolid in 1987 and then working for the club for two years. In the league, Cantatore's team was eighth in 1987/88 , a year later they even ranked sixth place in the table at the end of all game days. Also in 1988/89, Real Valladolid, after successes against Real Zaragoza , Athletic Bilbao , FC Cádiz and Deportivo La Coruña , made it to the final of the Spanish cup competition, the Copa del Rey , where they met Real Madrid . Although Real Valladolid, where players like the young Fernando Hierro or Branko Miljuš were playing at the time, sold well, they were inferior to the star ensemble from Madrid with 0-1 goals, with Rafael Gordillo scoring the decisive goal after just five minutes played .

Vicente Cantatore announced his resignation as coach of Real Valladolid after the end of the 1988/89 season and was the new season coach at Sevilla FC . In their first year in Seville they qualified for the 1990/91 UEFA Cup , but they were eliminated in the second round against Torpedo Moscow from the Soviet Union . In the league, Sevilla FC finished eighth in 1990/91 . At the end of the season, Vicente Cantatore and his employer parted ways, and the coach then went back to his adopted Chilean home.

Return to South America

In 1991 Vicente Cantatore took over the vacant coaching position at CD Universidad Católica in Santiago de Chile. With Universidad Católica he won the Copa Chile , the cup competition of Chilean football in 1991 , after Cantarore's old club CD Cobreloa was defeated 1-0 in the final.

The tenure of Vicente Cantatore at Universidad Católica ended in 1992. A year later he was active for a short time as a person in charge on the sidelines at the Argentine first division club Rosario Central . This work ended prematurely and without great success was incidentally the only one in the coaching career of Vicente Cantatore in his Argentine homeland. He then returned to Chile and looked after Colo-Colo Santiago for a short time in 1994, before an offer from the Spanish club CD Tenerife brought him back into European football.

Another job in Spain

In Tenerife , Vicente Cantatore succeeded his compatriot Jorge Valdano , who had moved to Real Madrid, and subsequently worked for CD Tenerife for a year. In the Primera División 1994/95 they only landed on fifteen place in the table after all match days and only narrowly escaped the relegation ranks, whereupon Cantatore had to take his hat at the end of the season and was replaced by the German Jupp Heynckes, who was replaced by Tenerife a few later should lead to the semi-finals of the UEFA Cup .

In the summer of 1996 Vicente Cantatore took over the post of head coach at Real Valladolid for a third time and reached a respectable seventh place in the 1996/97 Primera División with the club, which qualified for participation in the UEFA Cup in the following season. But Vicente Cantatore no longer experienced that as coach of Real Valladolid, he left the club after the end of the 1996/97 season.

This was followed by a short, unsuccessful interlude at the Portuguese first division club Sporting Lisbon , where Cantatore was dismissed after a few months, followed by Carlos Manuel . In 1998 Cantatore returned to Spain for a brief period at Betis Sevilla , but here too an early dismissal brought the end of his tenure in his first year. After a year off, the Argentine had his last coaching position from 2000 to 2001 at Sporting Gijón in the Segunda División .

successes

• Chilean championship : 2 ×

1980 and 1982 with CD Cobreloa

• Chilean Cup victory :

1991 with Universidad Católica

• Finalists of the Copa Libertadores : 2 ×

1981 and 1982 with CD Cobreloa

• Finalists of the Copa del Rey : 1 ×

1988/89 with Real Valladolid

• Spanish coach of the year : 1 ×

1996/97 as coach of Real Valladolid

Web links

• Vicente Cantatore in the database of weltfussball.de
• Profile Cantatores
• Information about his career

Individual evidence

1. ↑ fifa.com History of CD Cobreloa
2. ↑ guioteca.com Cobreloa in the 1980s
3. ↑ rsssf.com Copa del Rey 1988/89