Nelson Acosta

Nelson Bonifacio Acosta López ( * June 12, 1944 or July 1, 1953 in Paso de los Toros, Uruguay ) is a former Uruguayan football player and current coach. Since 1984 he also has the Chilean citizenship.

  • 3.1 as a player
  • 3.2 as coach

Playing career

Association

Acosta, who was born in Uruguay landlocked country in Paso de los Toros and grew during its first 14 years of life in Estación Francia, the son of the local stationmaster with his parents and five siblings, first played los Toros for the club Colón in Paso de, where he from the age of 14 also worked on the railways. Then he moved to Montevideo and started his footballing career at club level in 1970, first at the local club Huracán Buceo. From there, the Acosta since childhood, as well as almost all of its remaining family arch rivals Nacional Montevideo connected as fans joined in 1972 Peñarol. Here he could three times ( 1973, 1974, 1975) celebrate the win of the Uruguayan championship. From 1977 until his retirement in late 1984 he played in the Chilean clubs Everton (1977 ), O'Higgins ( 1978-1981 ) and Arturo Fernández Vial ( 1982-1984 ).

National

In the Uruguayan national team, he made ​​his debut on 10 February 1971, completed a total of up to April 28, 1976 five internationals. A goal he did not achieve it.

Coaching career

In his career as a coach, he assisted in three terms, the Chilean national football team (1993, 1996-2001 and 2005-2007). He was instructor of Chileans at the Copa América 2007., Where his team failed in the quarterfinals. In addition, he led the La Roja to attend the FIFA World Cup 1998, in which his team was eliminated in the second round against Brazil, secured with her winning the bronze medal at the Summer Olympics in Sydney in 2000 and managed it well in the World Cup qualification for the tournament in 2006. between, he coached from 2003 to 2004 less successful in the selection of Bolivia. As a club coach stations are Arturo Fernández Vial for him ( 1984-1988 ), O'Higgins (1988 to 1991), Unión Española (1992 ), the Mexican club Cruz Azul, he coached in the 1992/93 season until the 17th game day, again Unión Española ( 1993-1996 ) and Cobreloa (2002 to 2003 and 2004 to 2005) to book. With Unión Española he won here in 1992 and 1993 respectively, the Copa de Chile. At his first stop in Cobreloa he brought his team to victory in the Torneo Apertura 2003. In September 2007 he took over the training line at that time located in danger of relegation club Everton, and led the club to the semi- Series Championships in the Torneo Apertura 2008. Upon his mid-October 2010 ending time at Everton he held from December 2010 again the trainer chair Cobreloas. Equipped with a two-year contract ended his tenure at times but the Chileans already in April 2012, after he had announced not to want to extend his contract and his team also was in a sporting crisis. In May 2012, he signed as a successor Carlos sciatica when Ecuadorian club Deportivo Quito. Already about three months and six completed matches later he left there, however, end of July 2012 out of the office.

Achievements

As a player

  • 3x Uruguayan champion ( 1973, 1974, 1975)

As coach

  • Bronze medal Olympic Summer Games 2000
  • World Cup qualifying and reaching the World Cup knockout round with Chile in 1998
  • 2x Master of the Torneo Apertura (2003 and 2008) ( Chile)
  • 2x Copa de Chile (1992 and 1993)
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