Alejandro Sabella
Javier Alejandro Sabella ( born November 5, 1954 in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine coach and former Argentine footballer. On 29 July 2011 he was nominated to succeed Sergio Batista to the coach of the Argentine national soccer team.
Career
Playing career
Sabella began in the early 1970s in the youth team of his home club CA River Plate as an attacking midfielder. After the transfer of Norberto Alonso to Olympique Marseille, who had previously played on his position, he had a decisive share in the profits of the 1977 Torneo Metropolitano. But after returning Alonso he had yet again to make do with a place on the bench. In July 1978, he moved to Sheffield United for £ 160,000 in the second highest English league after they could not get the then 18 -year-old Maradona. In 1980 he moved to Leeds United for £ 400,000 in the first English league. In 1982 he returned to Argentina and played for Estudiantes de La Plata in the Primera División, with whom he again Torneo Metropolitano and 1983 won the national championship in 1982. In 1983 he was appointed four times in the Argentine national football team and took part in the Copa América 1983.
After that, he had engagements in Brazil ( Gremio ), Ferro Carril Oeste in and in Mexico (CD Irapuato ).
Because of its deliberate style of play, he was the player nicknamed Pachorra.
Coaching career
After the end of his playing days, he worked as an assistant coach Daniel Passarella of River Plate (1989-1994), the Argentine national football team (1994-1998), the Uruguayan national football team (2000-2001), FC Parma ( 2001), CF Monterrey ( 2003), Corinthians (2005) and again CA River Plate ( 2006-07).
In 2009, he became coach of Estudiantes de La Plata and won with them right off the bat the Copa Libertadores 2009, the South American equivalent of the UEFA Champions League. At the FIFA Club World Championship 2009 Estudiantes lost the finals to FC Barcelona in extra time with 1:2, giving him his second nickname el Mago ( the magician ) brought. In February 2011, he finished his commitment to Estudiantes and had already made an agreement with Al- Jazira Club, when he was appointed to succeed Sergio Batista in July 2011 after the Viertelfinalaus Argentina at the Copa America 2011.