Alfredo Tena
Alfredo Tena Garduño ( born November 21, 1956 in Mexico City), also known by the nickname Capitán Furia, is a former Mexican football player who acted usually in the position of central defender. After his retirement he worked as a football coach. He is the father of the currently active footballer Alfredo Omar Tena. His younger by a little more than a year brother Luis Fernando Tena was in the 1970s and 1980s also active as a football player and brought it to more than 300 appearances in the highest Mexican soccer league.
- 2.1 As a player
- 2.2 As a coach
Biography
Association
" Capitán Furia " Tena began his professional career in the 1973/74 season in the service of his home club América, with whom he enjoyed the most successful period in their history and in the nearly two decades of his active Mitwirkens won a total of 15 national and international titles; including six national championships and two victories in the prestigious final Copa Interamericana about the Boca Juniors (1978) and Olimpia Asunción (1991). With the exception of his last season in 1992/93, which he, a club from the metropolitan area of Guadalajara spent in the service of Tecos de la UAG, he was only at Club América under contract. The Tecos but he completed only a few games and eventually served for the rest of the season as an assistant coach Alberto Guerra.
His first job as head coach he had at Puebla FC in the season 1993/94. From 1995 to 1998 he coached Santos Laguna and won with this club in the Torneo Invierno 1996 his first championship title. 1998/99 he again took an engagement with Puebla FC and then returned to his long -time regular club América. At the beginning of the season 2001/ 02 he went to CF Pachuca, with whom he won the Torneo Invierno thus in 2001 and his second championship title. This success eligible to participate in the CONCACAF Champions ' Cup in 2002, which was also won.
Immediately after his separation from Santos Laguna, he coached in the 2003/04 season the team of Querétaro FC. This time, the hoped-for success was, however, and after a lean balance sheet of just one win and six draws from 15 games, the collaboration was terminated prematurely. His next engagements as head coach at CF Pachuca (2005) and the CD Vera Cruz ( 2006) were disappointing and short-lived.
At the beginning of the season 2006/ 07 he moved again to America; this time not as a head coach, but as an assistant coach for his brother Luis Fernando Tena.
National
Between 1977 and 1990, Alfredo Tena graduated a total of 30 international appearances for the Mexican national soccer team. He belonged to the Mexican World Cup squad in 1978, where he worked in the group matches against Germany ( 0:6 ) and Poland (1:3) participated.
His international debut was on February 1, 1977 a two- minute appearance in a friendly against Yugoslavia ( 5-1 ). A week later he had his first use of the full 90 minutes against the same opponents (0-1). His last international match, he completed on 17 April 1990 relating to a discharged in the U.S. friendly against Colombia, the " El Tri " won 2-0.
Achievements
As a player
- Mexican champion: 1976, 1984, 1985, Prode 85, 1988, 1989
- Supercup: 1976, 1988, 1989
- CONCACAF Champions ' Cup: 1977, 1987, 1990, 1992
- Copa Interamericana: 1978, 1991
As a coach
- Mexican masters: Invierno 1996 Invierno 2001
- CONCACAF Champions ' Cup: 2002