Antonio Mohamed
Antonio Mohamed ( born April 2, 1970 in Buenos Aires ), because of his Arab ancestors also known by the nickname El Turco (Spanish for The Turk ), is an Argentine football coach and former player, who acted in the midfield.
- 2.1 As a player ( in the club )
- 2.2 As a player ( in the team)
- 2.3 As a coach ( at national level)
- 2.4 As a coach ( at international level )
- 3.1 Serious accident
- 3.2 heart's desire
Life
Career as a player
Mohamed began his career as a professional football player in 1988 at his hometown club Huracán, who at the time played in the Nacional B second-rate. After Huracán was still failed in the 1988/89 season in the promotion round to Colón de Santa Fé, succeeded in the following season 1989/90 Championship and the associated return of the club in the Primera División. In this league, Mohamed played in the next three seasons for Huracán (1990/ 91), the Boca Juniors (1991 /92) and Independiente (1992/ 93) before he División joined the Mexican Primera, where he in the next five years at the Toros Neza was under contract and developed into an icon of the club.
In his first season, 1993/94 in Mexico, he played 37 of 38 possible games for the Toros and lacked only the 2:8 debacle against Cruz Azul, which had taken place on 9 February 1994 at the Estadio Hidalgo Pachuca, in which the Toros had to move with their own stadium at times because of problems in that season.
In just his second game, one on 27 October 1993 86 discharged even at the Estadio Neza home game against the Tiburones Rojos Vera Cruz, which was won thanks to his " brace " 3-1, he scored his first two of that season eleven gates. Also in the 1995/96 season scoring eleven goals Mohamed, its rate was even better because he ( of 34) games completed in only 33 of these. In the same number of hits he also came in the 1996/97 season, which was first divided into a round-trip round-robin tournament, in which he here also scored a goal in the Liguillas so that he "only" came in the point round on ten hits. In the second half of this season, the Torneo Verano 1997, he was also involved in the best result in the history of the Toros, when the team failed to qualify for the finals for the Mexican Championship, there, however, with the total score of 2:7 (1: 1 and 1:6 ) clearly defeated by giants Chivas.
After his departure from the Toros in the summer of 1998, Mohamed remained in the land of the Aztecs and finished his career there in the summer of 2003, the second division Zacatepec.
A total of four times for the Argentine national team came Mohamed, a field that scored a goal. He also belonged to the Albiceleste squad at the Copa América in 1991, was there not, however, be used.
Career as a coach
The cañeros de Zacatepec he also began his career as a trainer before he was with the Jaguares de Chiapas in use in the Clausura 2004 temporarily as head coach at Monarcas Morelia and in the Clausura 2005.
In the summer of 2005 he returned to Argentina and took over his heart club Huracán, with whom he also managed the rise as coach in 2007 to the first division, which was previously managed him 17 years as a player.
From then on he alternated between Argentina and Mexico, coached in the 2007/ 08 season the Mexican club Tiburones Rojos Veracruz and between 2008 and 2011 the Argentine teams Independiente and Colon. With the Diablos Rojos he also won the Copa Sudamericana 2010.
Currently, Mohamed is active in Mexico again, where he promoted the stumbling Xoloitzcuintles del Caliente Tijuana took over in September 2011 and remained undefeated with his team in the last eight games under his supervision the Apertura 2011. Just one year later he crowned his successful work in Tijuana with the surprising winning the Mexican soccer championship in Apertura, 2012.
Achievements
As a player ( in the club )
- Argentine second division champions: 1989 /90 ( with Huracán )
- Mexican runner: Verano 1997 ( with Toros Neza )
As a player ( in the team)
- Winner of the Copa América: 1991 ( with Argentina)
As a coach ( at national level)
- Argentine second division champion: 2007 ( with Huracán )
- Mexican masters: Apertura 2012 ( with Tijuana)
As a coach ( at international level )
- Winner of the Copa Sudamericana: 2010 ( with Independiente )
Miscellaneous
Serious accident
After the quarter-final match of his home country Argentina against hosts Germany in the World Cup 2006, Mohamed had looked with some compatriots, their car ran at a speed of 190 km / h on the way from Berlin to Frankfurt on the A4 near Weimar in a serious car accident in which his nine- year-old son Faryd was so badly injured that he died shortly afterwards in a Jena hospital and Antonio Mohamed's leg suffered a compound fracture in such a way that an amputation threatened.
Heart's desire
When he later his coaching job at the nail depends, Mohamed wants club president of his favorite football club Huracán be, with whom he has already ascended once each as a player and as a coach in the first football league in Argentina.