Américo Gallego

Américo Rubén " El Tolo " Gallego ( born April 25, 1955 in Morteros ) is a former Argentine footballer. He completed 73 games for the Argentina national football team and participated with this at the Football World Cup in 1978 and 1982.

Career

Club career

Américo Gallego, born on 25 April 1955 in Morteros, began his career as a football player at CA Newell 's Old Boys from Rosario. In the club with which he started after the 1974 tournament in the year, he played along with other former Argentine football greats such as Jorge Valdano, Juan Ramón Rocha and Ricardo Giusti, but did not win a title with Newell's Old Boys and left the club in 1980 towards Buenos Aires and joined CA River Plate, the club of the rich of Buenos Aires, on. After several unsuccessful years in the early eighties Américo Gallego won with River Plate, where were active at the time also, among others, Mario Kempes, Enzo Francescoli and Nery Pumpido, with his club at the end of his career back again some titles. His first National Championship title Gallego in the 1985/86 season, when they won ahead of his previous club Newell 's Old Boys football championship in Argentina with ten points. The following season River Plate could not indeed repeat this success, but it was successful in the Copa Libertadores, the highest competition for club teams in South America and won the final match against América de Cali first 2-1 at the Estadio Olimpico Pascual Guerrero in Colombia and then in the domestic Estadio Monumental 1-0. Two years later, Américo Gallego then ended his active career.

National

Américo Gallego came from 1975 to 1982 to 73 missions in Argentina's national soccer team. In these 73 games he scored three goals. With the national team of his native country, he participated in the World Cups in 1978 and 1982. In 1978 at the World Cup in their own country thanks to the support of the junta, the manipulated some games under coach César Luis Menotti winning the title. Américo Gallego was used by Menotti in all seven World Cup matches, the Argentines, but not quite able to score. Four years later, in Spain it looked like out of Gallego. Once again, he belonged to the tribe formation Menotti. Solely a game he missed in this World Cup, he missed when he had to take place on the bench in the intermediate round match against Brazil (1:3). Since this game was the last of Argentina at the World Tournament in Spain, Américo Gallego completed his last international match also in the second round at 1-2 against the eventual champions Italy, because after the World Cup, he finished his career in the national team.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career as a football player to Américo Gallego dedicated to the coaching profession. His first trainer Stadium in 1994 at his last club as a player, at CA River Plate. After only one year as interim coach and winning the Apertura he coached the team again from 2000 to 2001, where he won the Apertura and this time also the Clausura, but after a year left the club and then on as coach of CA Independiente in Avellaneda, an industrial suburb of Buenos Aires, held. There he won the Apertura. In its next coach station, his hometown club CA Newell 's Old Boys, he won again this competition. Despite his numerous victories in the Apertura him but a real championship as a coach in Argentina has so far been denied. After two stations in Mexico with Club Toluca and Tigres UANL, where Gallego once the Apertura won, he was again in 2009 manager of CA Independiente, where he was but was released after persistent failure in 2010. After Diego Cagna, the then coach of the Chilean Vice- Champion 2010 CSD Colo -Colo had declared for sporting reasons of his resignation, Gallego was there committed on 23 February 2011 as a coach, but was released a few months later. Last time was again Américo Gallego 2012-2013 Independiente Avellaneda active.