Edgardo Bauza
Edgardo Bauza ( born January 26, 1958 in Granadero Baigorria, Santa Fe Province ) is a former Argentine football player, who in his time, above all in the jersey of Rosario Central successfully showed was with the club twice Argentine champion and also as Argentine national team participated in the Football World Cup 1990 in Italy.
After his football career Bauza became a coach and led in this function the Ecuadorian club Liga de Quito to the surprising victory in the Copa Libertadores 2008. After a two year hiatus, he is currently since 2010 stands for Liga Quito as a coach under contract.
- 3.1 As a player
- 3.2 As a coach
Playing career
Club career
Edgardo Bauza, born in 1958 in the small town Granadero Baigorria in the province of Santa Fe, started playing football at the club CA Rosario Central. This club he belonged for a long time in his career at first in a first period from 1977 to 1982 at this time. Rosario Central flourished in football. Under coach Ángel Tulio Zof the equipped with a number of talented young players team in 1980 succeeded in winning the Torneo Nacional of Argentina's football championship. In this semi-annual season we sat down in the final, the surprise team of Racing de Córdoba with 5:1 and 0:2 by and thus won the first title since 1973 for Rosario Central. However, only four years after the championship title from 1980 had completely surprising take the course in the second division Rosario Central. Equally surprising one came after the direct revival better than ever in the first League back and secured in the 1986/87 season - the Argentine Championship was now held in European mode from summer to summer - once again the championship by a single point on Newell's Old Boys, the biggest rival of Central. To this day, the championship of 1987 the last national title by Rosario Central is nowadays one finds the once successful club nurmehr in the lowlands of the second division. Edgardo Bauzo was also directly involved in the profits of the Championship 1986/87, after he had left the club before 1982. In the meantime, the defender had kicked two years for Atlético Junior in Colombia and one year for CA Independiente, great successes were made , however.
After his return to Rosario Central in 1986 Edgardo Bauza played three more years for the club, the number of its operations in the jersey of Rosario amounts to 310 games, with him quite reach considerable eighty Torerfolge for a defender. In winter 1989/90 Edgardo Bauza Rosario Central left a second time and went to Mexico, where he end his career in the next two years at the local first division club CD Veracruz.
National
Between 1981 and 1990 it brought Edgardo Bauza to a total of three international appearances in Argentina's national soccer team. A hit did not jump out of it. From Argentina coach Carlos Bilardo, under whose direction the Albiceleste 1986 world champion had become Bauza nominated in 1990, something of a surprise in the squad for the World Cup in Italy, where the contract in Mexico under contract defender but was then not used. The Argentine team, however, reached the final, where, however, was defeated by the German team of Franz Beckenbauer 0-1 at the tournament after rather bumpy start.
Coaching career
After the end of his active career as a football player Edgardo Bauza became a coach. His first stop in this position, he had from 1998 to 2001 with whom he after thirteen years missed the re winning the championship by just one point at his hometown club Rosario Central, in the 1999/2000 season in the Torneo Apertura second behind CA River Plate. In 2001, Bauza the club and became the new coach of CA Velez Sarsfield, but where as in his subsequent involvement with CA Colón only midfield placings were achieved exactly always.
After his stint at the Colón Santa Fe Edgardo Bauza left Argentina and was in charge of new on the sidelines of the Peruvian First Division Clubs Sporting Cristal. In the Torneo Clausura of the Primera División in Peru in 2005 it took first place with four points ahead of Club Deportivo Universidad San Martín de Porres. A short time later they sat down against the winner of the Torneo Apertura, the Club Sportivo Cienciano, 1-0, which meant the first championship win in the coaching career of Edgardo Bauza.
After another year as coach at Colón de Santa Fe Bauza took over in 2006 the vacant coaching job at the Ecuadorian top club Liga de Quito and worked in the following two years very successfully in Ecuador. After the Ecuadorian championship was won in 2007, they were qualified for the Copa Libertadores in 2008 and reached in this competition after wins against Estudiantes de La Plata, CA San Lorenzo de Almagro Club América and the final, in which one Brazilian on the representatives Fluminense Rio de Janeiro met. Here Liga de Quito won the first leg at the Estadio La Casa Blanca home safe and surprisingly confident with 4:2, but the return game in Maracanã Stadium in Rio de Janeiro turned out to be a cliffhanger. Despite early leadership was subject Bauza's team were in, among other players such as Paul Ambrossi, Enrique Vera or Agustín Delgado, even with 1:3, the extension had no more goals. In the ensuing penalty shootout became a hero and Quito goalkeeper parried three of the four penalty of Brazilians, while transformed Liga de Quito three of four and left the place as the winner in the end. This one was the first Ecuadorian winner in the Copa Libertadores at all. A few months later they stood against the winner of the UEFA Champions League 2007 / 08, the English representatives of Manchester United in the final of the FIFA Club World Cup, but lost 0-1 with a goal from Wayne Rooney in the 73 minutes. After this game, Edgardo Bauza announced his resignation as manager of Liga de Quito. In December 2009, Bauza was voted third best coach of the year in the world, only behind Alex Ferguson and Dick Advocaat. In South America, however, he was voted coach of the year.
2009 Bauza was briefly in Saudi Arabia working for al -Nasr, this work ended prematurely, however, and unsuccessful. In 2010, he instead returned to the dugout Liga de Quito and won with the club immediately Recopa Sudamericana the 2010 after his club under Bauza's predecessor Jorge Fossati the Copa Sudamericana 2009 - had won - again against Fluminense Rio de Janeiro. Also in 2010, Edgardo Bauza reached with Liga de Quito a second time winning the Ecuadorian football championship. To this day, this title win last for Liga de Quito dar. In the years after 2010, one had to be beaten other clubs almost every year, the coach since 2010 but remained constant with the Argentine Edgardo Bauza.
Achievements
As a player
- Argentine Championship: 2x
As a coach
- Copa Libertadores: 1x
- Recopa Sudamericana: 1x
- Peruvian Championship: 1x
- Ecuadorian Championship: 2x
- South American Coach of the Year: 1x