Carlos Aldabe

Carlos Roberto Aldabe (* 1919 in Roberts, Buenos Aires Province) was an Argentine football player and coach. He is best known as the player-coach who led the most of his time with prominent Colombian team CD Los Millonarios to the first championship in club history.

As a player, Roberto " Cacho " defended Aldabe in the province of Buenos Aires from 1939 to 1944 at CA Platense in the Premier League and from 1945 to 1946 in Quilmes AC in the sub-prime Primera B. From 1949 he was player-manager of CD Los Millonarios in Colombia capital Bogotá. After the introduction of Professionalsimus in Colombia, he traveled to look for Argentine Stars out on behalf of the club president Alfonso Senior to Buenos Aires. On his initiative came in June 1949, El Maestro Adolfo Pedernera of CA River Plate, and in the wake of his team-mates in August Néstor Rossi and Alfredo Di Stéfano the club.

This was favored on the one hand through an ongoing player strike in Argentina there affected the operation of gambling heavily and, second, that in the Colombian league players were allowed to accumulate without prior approval by their Vorvereine, so the clubs practically one parten the overdue replacement income. This phase, in which stars from around the world homed to the country is referred to as the El Dorado of the Colombian football and led to his early exclusion of the country from the world governing body FIFA.

Even in 1949 won the Millonarios their first football championship of Colombia. From the end of May 1950, only Aldabe more players. In the trainer function inherited him Pedernera and should be much celebrated Ballet Azul ( "Blue Ballet " ) lead the club until the end of El Dorado 1954 another great success. Aldabe joined later in the year but in Peru the straight again ascended to the first division club Ciclista Lima, where formerly the striker Juan Emilio Salinas star of the team was. From the middle of 1952, he completed a few games in Colombia for Santa Fe and the following year for Universidad of Bogotá.

On his return to Argentina, he coached there until 1968 at several clubs in the professional field, although no top clubs. From 1953 to 1954 he coached Quilmes AC in the second division. Anschliesend he was from 1956 to 1958 in Chile worked and trained there at first in the second division CD Universidad Católica - where formerly the legendary Sergio Livingstone the ball landed - and Everton de Viña del Mar with the Paraguayan striker Máximo Rolón. Between 1960 and 1968 he coached another half a dozen clubs in Argentina. His engagements as a coach were more short-term nature and new titles profits did not materialize. At Universidad Católica he may have been the coach of the club, the decline in 1955 as the reigning champion, led back to the first division.

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