Gerardo Pelusso

Gerardo Pelusso, full name: Gerardo Pelusso Boyrie, ( born February 25, 1954 in Florida, Uruguay) is an Uruguayan football coach and former player.

• 2.1 training
• 2.2 stations

Playing career

Association

First club in Pelussos career was 1970-1971 Nacional Montevideo. From there he moved within the city to Colon Fútbol Club, where he played from 1972 to 1973. This was followed by another station in the Uruguayan capital, when he ran aground in 1975 for the Liverpool Fútbol Club. However, after he left his at the time designated by a civilian-military dictatorship home and went abroad. About Mexico, where he played from 1976 to 1977 for Atlético Potosino, he made his way to Ecuador. Here he was successively for the clubs Deportivo Quito ( 1978), Liga Deportiva Universitaria ( 1979-1980 ) and Emelec ( 1981-1982 ) worked.

National

From 1975 to 1976 Pelusso also belonged to the squad of the national team of Uruguay.

Coaching career

Training

After his playing career, he moved into coaching specialist. To this end, he first attended in 1982 a coach training course in Quito Ecuador. It was followed by further training in 1984 (Commonwealth of course the Olympic Committee and FIFA ) in Guayaquil and 1986 ( course of the Uruguayan Olympic Committee ) in Durazno. On 8 July 1992, he successfully completed the coaching education at the Instituto Superior de Educación Física del Uruguay. In the same year he also finished one held in the Brazilian San Pablo course with the contents tactics and strategy. In 1995 the visit of another, Miljan Miljanic, led by in Montevideo for 20 highly qualified trainers and hosted by FIFA, together with the Olympic Committee training course in Montevideo. 1996 his coach title was also recognized by the Comisión Técnica Nacional in Santiago.

Stations

His practical work as a trainer, he began where he finished his career as a player, the Ecuadorian club Emelec. From 1985, he worked for three years unterklassig in his hometown at Club Atlético. From 1988 to 1990 he coached the Departamento selection of Florida and won the national championship. In 1991, he was the coach of Liverpool Fútbol Club. 1992, in the service of Club Atlético Quilmes, took the championship on departamentaler level. In 1993 he had then to 1995 -ending coach Engagement at Cerro Uruguayan professional football. 1994, where he succeeded with his players winning the Uruguayan championship runner-up. He also played with the Copa Libertadores Cerro season 1995. Then made ​​his way to Chile for Club Deportes Iquique, where until 1997 he held the position of manager in 1996. In 1998, he coached the club likewise in Chile Everton de Viña del Mar. After returning to Uruguay, he was in the following year with the Frontera Rivera FC so-called Campeón del Interior. In 2000 he stood as coach at Racing Club de Montevideo under contract. From 2001 to 2002 he took over the coach position at SD Aucas in Ecuador and took part in the Copa Merconorte. After a further intermediate station in 2003 at Cerro, he led the 2004 Danubio FC to its second Uruguayan championship in club history, and also won the undefeated Torneo Torneo Apertura and the Clasificatorio that year. In Danubio he remained until 2005. Starting in 2006, he was in the service of the Peruvian club Alianza Lima. He added both the Apertura championship in 2006 as well as the overall champion title in 2006 its success statistics. At Nacional Montevideo, where he held as coach in the next three years, he completed a successful außerdordentlich time. He won the Torneo Apertura 2009 and was with the club in the season 2008 /09 Uruguayan champion. In addition, the Montevideaner won in 2009 under his direction and in the Copa Ricard, the Copa Suat and were masters of Liguilla Pre- Libertadores. The Copa Libertadores 2009 was finished in fourth place. Thus Nacional was so good no longer placed at the international level as before for 20 years. His time at Nacional ended after previously at the leadership level of the club carried out by secret ballot in early August 2009. Later that year he became a lasting until 2010 activity in CF Universidad de Chile. There he achieved by reaching the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores 2010, the best result in the club's history in this tournament. Since 20 June 2011, he coached the Paraguayan club Club Olimpia. Here he stood as an assistant coach the two former Uruguayan José Mauricio Larriera Dibarboure and Javier Carballo Díaz aside. In 2011, he won the Torneo Clausura with his team and thus the Paraguayan championship. In July 2012, he became coach of Paraguay. After the 1-2 defeat against Chile in qualifying for the 2014 World Cup on June 7, 2013 Pelusso resigned from his post. On December 16, 2013, it was announced that he follow Rodolfo Arruabarrena the coach of Nacional Montevideo.

Achievements

• Paraguayan Champion 2011 ( Torneo Clausura )
• Peruvian Champion 2006

Private

Pelusso, in addition to Spanish and speaks Portuguese and completed his education with the Bachillerato comunicaciones was married but is divorced.