Néstor Clausen

Néstor Rolando Clausen ( born September 29, 1962 in Arrufo, Santa Fe ) is a former Argentine football player and current coach. He was a player in 1986 football World Cup and won with CA Independiente 1984, the Copa Libertadores and the Intercontinental Cup.

• 3.1 As a player
• 3.2 As a coach

Playing career

Club career

Néstor Clausen played the first nine years of his footballing career for his hometown club CA Independiente from the industrial suburb of Avellaneda bonarenser. From 1980 to 1988 he made ​​a total of 260 league appearances for Independiente and scored seven goals in it. After 1983, the Metropolitano Competition of the Argentine Primera División was by a first place one point ahead of San Lorenzo de Almagro won, Clausen was qualified with Independiente for the Copa Libertadores 1984. In the tournament the team of coach José Pastoriza reached the final, where they met representatives of the Brazilian Gremio. The first leg was won by a goal from Jorge Burruchaga 1-0 in Porto Alegre, which Independiente a goalless draw at home in Estadio Almirante Cordero handed in the second leg to win for the seventh time in the club's Copa Libertadores. A short time later they won then also in the World Cup with a 1-0 win over the winner of the European Cup of Champions 1983/84, Liverpool. The year 1984 was the most successful for Néstor Clausen with Independiente. Then just another title could still be won in the last year Clausen at Independiente one was again champion. Néstor Clausen played until 1989 in Avellaneda, before the 1989/90 season the Swiss first division club FC Sion joined.

In the jersey of FC Sion Néstor Clausen made ​​between 1989 and 1994 73 games in league play, the Swiss football championship. 1990/91 he won the cup competition with Sion Switzerland, the Swiss Cup. The following year, you could also the first championship of the FC Sion celebrate at all, which won first place in the first football league in Switzerland, Axpo Super League, at that time still under the name of National League A is known, one point ahead of the Grasshoppers of Zurich could be. However, the next few years designed for Clausen and the FC Sion less successful and he left the club in 1994 to return to Argentina to Racing Club after Avellaneda, the biggest rivals of his former club Independiente, which he claimed 22 league games for racing again returned. After another year with Independiente he played from 1997 to 1998 nor for the third club from Avellaneda, Arsenal de Sarandi, before he ended his active career in 1998 at the age of 36 years.

National

From 1983 to 1988 Néstor Clausen came to 26 international matches in the Argentine national football team. In this case, the defender scored a goal. After this had been three years earlier taken part in the Copa América, Argentina coach Carlos Bilardo called Clausen in the squad for the FIFA World Cup 1986 in Mexico. The tournament Clausen was used only in the first group match, a 3-1 win against South Korea. His team, however, reached the final, where they met at the Azteca stadium in Mexico City on the German national team. The final was won by Argentina 3-2, which meant the second world title for the country.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career as a football player Néstor Clausen became a coach. After two years as a youth coordinator and youth coach at CA Independiente 2001, he became head coach of the first team of his home club. After a mixed Apertura season, which ended on the tenth place in the table, was Independiente Last in the Clausura 2002, but rose because of the rule according to which the losers in Argentina's highest league in addition to the results of the last three years will be determined, not from. However, Néstor Clausen had his hat. But a little later he was coach of the Bolivian first division club Oriente Petrolero, where he worked for a year before he began an engagement with The Strongest La Paz and has been the most successful club in Bolivia in the Apertura 2003 and Clausura 2004 twice national champion of Bolivia, 2004 club left to become coach of the Chacarita Juniors, with whom he in his first year in the Primera B, the second Argentine league, relegation and missing out on promotion in the following year. In the 2006/07 season he coached FC Sion in the Swiss Super League and led the newly promoted to third place and to participate in the qualification for the UEFA Cup. In the summer of 2007, his time in Sion ended, however, and he became an assistant to Gabriel Calderon as coach of Oman. He then took over as coach in 2008 at Neuchâtel Xamax, with whom he reached the seventh place in the championship. In the following years Néstor Clausen was still working twice in Bolivia and trained each Club Bolívar and The Strongest for a short time. Furthermore, in 2009, he worked briefly for Al Kuwait Kaifan. In 2011 he was coach of Dubai club was, however, replaced in September 2011 by his assistant Umberto Barberis.

Currently, Néstor Clausen since 2012 Trainer of the Bolivian Association Club Blooming.

Achievements

As a player

• World Cup: 1x (1986 )

• Argentine Championship: 2x ( Metropolitano 1983, 1988 /89)

• Copa Libertadores: 1x (1984 )

• World Cup: 1x (1984 )

• Super Copa Sudamericana: 1x (1995 )

• Swiss Championship: 1x (1991 /92)

• Swiss Cup: 1x (1990/ 91)

As a coach

• Bolivian Championship: 2x ( Apertura 2003, Clausura 2004)