Walter Olivera

Walter Olivera
Olivera (right) together with Fernando Morena after winning the Copa Libertadores 1982 .
Personnel
Surname	Walter Daniel Olivera Prada
birthday	August 16, 1952
place of birth	Parque del Plata ,  Uruguay
size	184 cm
position	Defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1972-1983	Club Atlético Peñarol
1983-1985	Atlético Mineiro	72 (8)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1973-1983	Uruguay	30 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1985	Atlético Mineiro
0000-1987	Rampla Juniors
1 Only league games are given.

Walter Daniel Olivera Prada (born August 16, 1952 in Parque del Plata ) is a former Uruguayan national soccer player and soccer coach. He embodied the robust Uruguayan defender of his era - “marcamos sucio, bien a la uruguaya” was his motto: “tough cover, the good Uruguayan way.” Between 1972 and 1982 he was the dominant person in the defense of CA Peñarol , with he won seven national championships as well as the Copa Libertadores and the World Cup in 1982 . Until the mid-1980s he was also able to achieve success as a player and coach with the Brazilian club Atlético Mineiro . With the national team he also won the "small world championship" in 1980 and the Copa America in 1983 with the Mundialito .

Player career

Early years

Walter "Indio" Olivera was born in La Palmita , a small town about ten kilometers from Atlántida in the hinterland of the Uruguayan Costa de Oro , the son of a farm laborer. Olivera also often worked as a farm laborer before joining the youth of the capital club Club Atlético Peñarol at the age of 17 .

From the age of 15 he played for the now defunct club of La Palmita , with which he competed in the local league. Originally he was used there as a center forward, but turned out to be less dangerous. After the failure of a defender, he was ordered to his position due to his stature. In 1969, when he was seventeen, scouts brought him to the capital, Montevideo, to join the youth of the top club Club Atlético Peñarol . In his early days, he found Montevideo quite uncomfortable and traveled from his hometown, about 40 km away, to training and games.

Successes with Peñarol and the national team

For his first use in the Uruguayan professional league, he came in 1972 when the team from Penãrol was on a European tour and the first championship games began with the reserve. The game against Cerro was lost 0-1. On May 17, 1973 he made his debut under coach Hugo Bagnulo for the Uruguayan national soccer team in a 1-1 draw in Buenos Aires against Argentina. In his third international match in Bogotá in June against Colombia for the World Cup qualification, he and his opponent were sent off the field in the 22nd minute - which was to remain his only red card in the national jersey. In the same year he won his first national championship with Peñarol.

In the following years, the bearded Olivera rose to captain Peñarols. A broken leg at an international match in Australia in April 1974 brought him out of the world championship of the same year. When he returned to the field, he broke the same leg again in a friendly. In total, he was busy with the injury for around seven months. Later in his career he would suffer fractures of the collarbone and shoulder blade.

With Peñarol, Olivera won the Uruguayan championship six more times until the early 1980s. The highlight of the black and yellow was winning the Copa Libertadores in 1982 . After Peñarol had won all four games in the semi-final group games against CR Flamengo from Rio de Janeiro and CA River Plate from Buenos Aires, it was only enough for a goalless draw in November in the final first leg against CD Cobreloa from Chile at home in the venerable Estadio Centenario . However, three days later in the second leg at the Estadio Nacional in the Chilean capital Santiago , Fernando Morena , who thus manifested himself as the top scorer of the competition for the third time, scored the goal in the penultimate minute with the 1-0 goal, which the club for the fourth time after 1960, 1961 and 1966 brought the most coveted South American club trophy.

In December of that year there was then a duel in the Japanese capital Tokyo against the European Cup winner Aston Villa FC from Birmingham , who had defeated FC Bayern Munich in its continental final. Also in this game, the back team around captain Olivera and Nelson Gutiérrez - "outstanding", as it was reported - did not concede a goal. The Brazilian Jair Gonçalves with a free kick and the young left winger Walkir Silva ensured victory for the team coached by Hugo Bagnulo, the most successful coach in the Uruguayan championship history.

In 1980 Walter Olivera celebrated his first major triumph with the national team. At the Mundialito held in Montevideo on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the first edition of the soccer World Cup , in which all previous world champions except England, which was replaced by the vice world champions Netherlands, took part, Uruguay defeated Brazil 2-1 in the final for the young Sócrates . In the 1983 Copa América won Uruguay to the great Enzo Francescoli by a 2: 0 victory in the final against Brazil the title of 1983 . Olivera was only used in two group games. His use With a 2-2 in a friendly against Israel on September 26, 1983 at Bloomfield Stadium in Jaffa , he gave his 30th and last performance for the Celeste , for whom he scored a goal in a 1980 friendly against Switzerland . As early as 1975, he took part in the Copa America with Uruguay. At the time, Uruguay had a bye to the semi-finals as the defending champion and failed there to Colombia, which in turn lost in the final against Peru. In qualifying for the World Championships in 1978 and 1982, he failed with Uruguay on Bolivia and Peru. In 1976 he also took part in a qualifier for the 1976 Olympic Games and scored a goal in the 1-1 draw against Chile. Uruguay qualified but decided not to participate.

Career finale in Brazil

From October 1983 Walter Olivera played in Belo Horizonte , capital of the Brazilian state of Minas Gerais with Atlético Mineiro , the semi-finalists of the Brazilian championship , and won with the club until the end of the state championship . In the following year Atlético did not excel in either the national championship or the state championship, but in August at the invitation tournament in Amsterdam after a victory against the Dutch champions and cup winner Feyenoord Rotterdam in the final, they also won the hosts Ajax Amsterdam around Marco van Basten and Ronald Koeman , albeit only on penalties, defeat and thereby achieve a respectable success.

In 1985 Atlético was eliminated from the national championship only in the semi-finals with results of 0: 1 and 0: 0 against the champions of the year, Coritiba FC . Then Atlético went on a big European tour again. After a win against Athletic Bilbao , Spanish double winner last year, this time the Amsterdam tournament was beaten 4-1 in the final against the new Dutch champions Ajax. Atlético also reached the final at a tournament in La Linea in Spain, but lost 3-1 to the Spanish champions FC Barcelona . The club's trip to Europe ended in a game against AS Roma in Rome in mid-August . Walter Olivera contributed two hits to the 4: 4 final result in the game with which he ended his career as a player.

Coaching

In October of that year he replaced Vicente Lage on the coaching bench at Atlético during the current state championship . In December Atlético defeated local rivals Cruzeiro Belo Horizonte 1-0 in front of almost 85,000 spectators at Mineirão and Olivera was also able to show a success as a coach.

Until December 1987 he was a trainer at the Rampla Juniors . In later years he also coached clubs in lower leagues in Uruguay. Around 2005 he was part of the coaching staff of Profesor Aníbal Matonte at Peñarol, where he made himself available as an interim coach for a few weeks in 1992 and was later also a youth coach .

He also supervised the selection of Pando in the OFI .

After that, Walter "Indio" Olivera also dealt with the purchase, restoration and sale of furniture. Before he turned pro he was a fan of Nacional , but has remained connected to CA Peñarol ever since. The bearded father of three daughters called his house Grape , short for Gracias Peñarol - "Thank you Peñarol!"

successes

With the national team

• Mundialito: 1980
• Copa America : 1983

At club level

• World Cup : 1982
• Copa Libertadores : 1982
• Uruguayan champions: 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979, 1981, 1982
• Minas Gerais State Championship : 1983, 1985

As a trainer

• Minas Gerais State Championship : 1985

Web links

• Gerardo Tagliaferro: Antes de ser futbolista profesional era hincha de Nacional (interview), Crónicas, June 16, 2008.
• Felipe Kalapalo, Gilmar T. de Oliveira, Jackass Molibidênio: O canto do galo (information on time from Atlético Mineiro / accessed on May 22, 2011)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ "Un Indio para recordar" ( Memento of the original from April 20, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was 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) 
2. ↑ CAPeñarol ( Memento of the original from May 10, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
3. ↑ A 25 años de su última Intercontinental (with picture from 1982), Diario UNoticias, Montevideo, December 11, 2007.
4. ↑ Luis Inzaurralde: Volver a empezar después de una fractura , El Observador , August 28, 2012.
5. ^ Copa Toyota 1982 , FIFA (accessed May 22, 2011)
6. ↑ Luis Fernando Passo Alpuin: Uruguay - Record International Players , Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation , April 21, 2011
7. ↑ 65 años de Juan Carlos Borteiro (Spanish) on ramplajrs.blogspot.de, accessed on February 9, 2015
8. ^ Marcos Silvera Antúnez: Club Atlético Peñarol - 120, "Directores Técnicos", Ediciones El Galeón, Montevideo 2011, p. 192f - ISBN 978-9974-553-79-8
9. ↑ Horacio Abadie: Garisto firmó y no habló de jugadores , El Pais , December 30, 2005.
10. ↑ ¿Por qué los técnicos uruguayos fueron defensas, goleros o mediocampistas? (Spanish) from lr21.com.uy on May 29, 2001, accessed October 27, 2016