Jorge Solari
Jorge Raúl Solari ( born November 11, 1941 in Buenos Aires ) is a former Argentine football player and later coach, who took part in the Football World Cup 1966 as a player and 1970 Copa Libertadores won as well as a coach, among others, for CD Tenerife and the national was in charge of Saudi Arabia.
Playing career
Club career
Jorge Solari began playing football in 1960 at CA Newell 's Old Boys in Rosario. Here he played for two years and made thirty-one league appearances for the club. In 1962 he moved to Buenos Aires, where he was born in 1941. In the following two years he was active for CA Velez Sarsfield and came to thirty-four league games for the club. For season 1964 Solari was from CA River Plate, the Nobel club of Argentina, obliged. A title win with the Argentine giants remained to him but denied because River Plate was located after the departure of the legendary Maquina in a small depth, while the 1957-1975 not a single title was won. A second place in the championship in 1965, River Plate qualified for the Copa Libertadores 1966, where the final was reached. There failed the team coached by Renato Cesarini, in the next Solari players like Óscar Mas, Luis Cubilla and Juan Carlos Sarnari there were, on the Uruguayan representative CA Peñarol.
Later in his career succeeded Jorge Solari a second time, to advance to the final of the Libertadores Cup. In the tournament of 1970, he reached, now playing for Estudiantes de La Plata, the final and scored again to Peñarol. This time Solaris team was victorious and was third Libertadores win in a row. Overall Solari played after his departure from River Plate in 1969 one year for Estudiantes, before rejoining the club and to Mexico to Torreón CF, a nowadays defunct club that was playing in the Primera División, went to there end his career to leave.
National
Jorge Solari came 1966-1969 to ten internationals in the Argentine national soccer team. From coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo, he was called to the squad for the World Cup 1966 in England. The tournament Solari was used in all four games of his team, but he succeeded in scoring not as in his entire international career. Argentina was second in the first round behind the eventual runners-up Germany, which they had wrested from a goalless draw, and in Spain and Switzerland. In the quarter finals they met England and was eliminated by a 0-1 defeat, Geoff Hurst was successful for the hosts after 78 minutes, from.
Coaching career
After the end of his active career as a football player Jorge Solari has also been successful as a coach. In his native Argentina, he coached several clubs, including the Newell 's Old Boys, CA Independiente and Rosario Central. On the continent of South America, he was also responsible for example for Barcelona SC Guayaquil in Ecuador, CD Los Millonarios in Colombia and Club América in Mexico. From 1990 to 1992 he also coached CD Tenerife in Spain. In 1994 he became coach of Saudi Arabia. With the Saudis he participated for the first time in the history of football in a World Cup finals, the World Championships in the United States in 1994 ended with a KO in the first round against Sweden. Prior to the Solaris team had survived the group stage, surprising and was second in the group behind the Netherlands and Belgium before and Morocco. Despite the good performance in the World Cup itself extended the contract of Jorge Solari not and he was later coach in Japan at Yokohama Marinos. After many more positions, he most recently worked for Atlético Tucumán.