Jorge Valdano

Jorge Alberto Valdano Castellano ( born October 4, 1955 in Las Parejas in the province of Santa Fe) is an Argentine football player, coach and manager, who has worked as a business consultant today.

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Playing career

National

He played for the Argentine national team, including at the Football World Cup 1982 and the 1986 World Cup, which was the crowning achievement of his career. In the tournament in Mexico, he was one of the outstanding players of the Argentine and with four goals to Diego Maradona 's top scorer of his team. He marked his probably most important goal in the final against Germany, when he succeeded the 2:0 ( Full 3:2 ). Valdano had been in meetings all the Argentines from the first to the last minute on the field.

Surprisingly, he settled in 1989, after the retirement, reactivate for the national team, although he no longer had a club for more than a year. The now 34 -year-old attempted a comeback, however, showed that even an exceptional footballer his previous performance after a certain time interval can no longer so readily retrieve. Valdano agonized for months, but the conditional gap with his teammates could not catch up. Shortly before the 1990 World Cup, he was dropped from the squad.

Club

Valdano played with 19 years in the Argentine top club Newell 's Old Boys in Rosario, where he stood out as a robust, ambitious striker with strong fighting skills. He was considered one of the " whiz kids " of Argentine football; long since European clubs had become aware of him. In addition to that Valdano wanted to leave his governed by a military junta homeland for political reasons. In 1975, he left Argentina and went to Europe to sign the Spanish second division side Deportivo Alavés. However, the promises that had been made to the young striker was not met. It is alleged that the club wanted to try Valdano as quickly as possible to transfer to a top club to get in this way a high transfer fee in the chronically cash-strapped. However, it took four years before he could change 1979 to Real Zaragoza in the La Liga. There he distinguished himself as a threader and enforcers alike. He had arrived in the Spanish football clubs. For a time he flirted with a move to Barcelona, which was coached by his compatriot César Luis Menotti, however, were dashed after his release such change intentions.

Instead, he moved in 1984 to Real Madrid. Although he was already 29 years old, he experienced in the following years at the " Royal " to the actual height of his club career. In 1985, he secured himself with his club to the UEFA Cup, which was defended a year later. In addition, Real was with Valdano 1986 for the first time after six years of Spanish football champions. At this title had the striking duo Jorge Valdano congenial and Hugo Sánchez significant proportion. Valdano was considered by coaches and peers as very team player who mitdachte. Thus he provoked in a few times, because he shared his sometimes contrarian views on tactics with his coaches. However, he never imagined their authority. After the FIFA World Cup 1986 his career suffered a kink. In early 1987, forced him to a protracted hepatitis a half years forced break. Then he could of his achievements, not able to go and ended his active career in 1988.

Today

After his active career as a footballer Jorge Valdano was coach. Real Madrid he led in 1995 to the Spanish championship and was then until his retirement in the summer of 2004 football director of the club. The purchases of world stars such as Luís Figo, Ronaldo, David Beckham and Zinedine Zidane came about under his leadership. The club made ​​Valdano into a global business enterprise. Because he frequently reported in newspaper columns about his Fußballobsession and about quoting William Shakespeare, he is called in Spain and Latin America, the " philosopher of football". His book "On Football " was honored at the award ceremony of the German Football Culture Prize in 2006 as " football book of the year".

Valdano studied law and worked as a management consultant in Madrid. In June 2009, he returned as CEO to Real Madrid. After disagreements with José Mourinho his office was abolished in May 2011.

Escuela de Estudios Unversitarios

From October 2006 he took over the management of the Escuela de Estudios Unversitarios, a kind of football university founded by Real Madrid and the European University of Madrid.

Trivia

One of the four sons Raul's is named after him.