Julio César Falcioni
Julio César Falcioni ( born July 20, 1956 Buenos Aires ) is a former Argentine football goalkeeper and current coach.
Playing career
Julio Falcioni played from 1976 to 1980 for the CA Velez Sarsfield in the first Argentine league. He then moved to Colombia to América de Cali, where he played for eight years. At this time the goalkeeper with the Los diablos rojos won five times in a row, the Colombian championship. The now 34 -year-old Falcioni then went back to his native Argentina, where he hired Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata. After a brief interlude in the Colombian representative CD Once Caldas he finished his career in 1991 where he had begun 15 years earlier - at Velez Sarsfield.
National
From 1989 to 1990 Julio Falcioni completed three caps for the Argentina national football team.
Coaching career
Six years after the end of his career he moved Julio Falcioni again to the CA Velez Sarsfield, where he now works as a coach. In 2000 he resigned from his post and coached after a short break from 2002 to 2003 the league rivals Olimpo de Bahía Blanca. Furthermore, Falcioni was head coach from CA Banfield, Independiente CA and the CA Colón. In 2007, he went to his former club Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata, where he replaced Francisco Maturana as coach. However, he was just as unsuccessful as its predecessor with the team.
After this brief interlude at Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata Julio Falcioni was over a year without a job, before he took over in 2009 manager of Banfield, a first division club without great success in recent club history. Falcioni it could, the team's lead to very good performances, which culminated in winning the Argentine Football Championship in the Apertura 2009, two points ahead of CA Newell 's Old Boys. In the following years, however, Banfield was unable to match the performance of the Apertura 2009, was fifth in the 2010 Clausura and failed in the Copa Libertadores 2010 already in the second round to eventual winners SC Internacional of Brazil. Also get in the Apertura 2010 Banfield not have very good results.
On December 18, 2010 Julio Falcioni left the club to take over as successor to Claudio Borghi as coach at Boca Juniors, he exerts today. About a year after taking office, Julio Falconi Boca Juniors to their first championship since 2008. In the Apertura 2011 one stood with two games left in the season as a table first determines after Falconis former club Banfield was defeated 3-0.
Achievements
- As a player: Colombian masters: 5x (1982, 1983, 1984, 1985, 1986 )
- Argentine champion: 2x