Ondino Viera

Ondino Viera - in Brazil Ondino Vieira - ( born September 10, 1901 in Cerro Largo, Uruguay, † June 27, 1997 in Montevideo) was an Uruguayan football coach. In his long career he won between the 1930s and 1960s important titles with club teams in Argentina, Brazil, Uruguay and Paraguay. With the national team of Paraguay he reached at the Copa América in 1963 and second place in the 1966 World Cup in England, he led the national team of Uruguay in the quarterfinals.

Career

Beginnings in Uruguay and Argentina

As a player, he was off the big ramp light in the Uruguayan province. As a coach, he led in 1928 the national team of the Northeast Uruguayan departments of Cerro Largo by that time still held as Amateuerwettbewerb national championship of Uruguay and reached a respectable fourth place here. In 1930, he deepened his knowledge at one of Professor Alberto Suppici, the Uruguayan champion coach from 1930, designed course at the Escuela Nacional de Educación Física di Montevideo.

Since 1932, the Championship of Uruguay will be played professionally. During this time, Viera was also active for the first time at the top club Club Nacional de Football in Montevideo. In the main, then, was the Hungarian Américo Szigeti coach of the team that his time with the nickname la Maquina Blanca ("The White Machine" ) was provided, and its players among other international stars such as the " Field Marshal " (Gran Mariscal ) José Nasazzi and Héctor Scarone belonged, who were also part of the Uruguayan world Cup team of 1930. Ondino Viera was involved as a coach at one of the two championships of 1933 and 1934.

In 1936 he took over on the other side of the Rio de la Plata, the fortunes of CA River Plate in Buenos Aires. He won the club championships of 1936 and 1937. Viera had this great player personalities on hand, which established the club as the Millonarios. Should have existed for 20 years - - Bernabé Ferreyra, whose access River Plate a Weltrrekordablösesumme was worth, Carlos Peucelle, José Manuel Moreno and Adolfo Pedernera are still sounding names of the Argentine football history.

Successes in Brazil

1938 he moved to eliminate the effects of Brazilian capital Rio de Janeiro where he sat until 1941 in the dugout of the local top club Fluminense FC. There he broke in November during the final phase of the ongoing state championship in Rio de Janeiro 's suffering from physical exhaustion compatriot Carlo Carlomagno from and thus became the third Uruguayans in series on the bench Fluminense. He led the club without making any significant changes for the third title in a series. In addition, he won the tournaments between 1940 and 1941. The tournament in 1941 was the first that took place after the official FIFA rules, that is, without substitutions, without substitution of the field referenced players and two halves of 45 minutes each instead of the hitherto 40 minutes. In those years, no national competitions were held in Brazil by the way. Of the 264 games under Viera Fluminense won 158 and hit it 765 times, ie nearly three times per game.

In 1942 he became coach of the CR Vasco da Gama, who was still behind Fluminense, Flamengo, Botafogo FR América FC and the number 5 was in town. Viera led not only which has since become typical diagonal sash - inspired by River Plate - on the jerseys of a Vasco, but also brought a tactical innovations such as the 4-2-4 system. The former boxer Mário Américo joined in 1942 Vasco da Gama as a massage therapist and physical caregivers - he should accompany away from 1950, the national seven world championships as a physical Managers and gain worldwide fame as a factotum itself.

By 1945, succeeded Ondino Viera a powerful team together had to shy away from any comparison and the club unbeaten sixth state championship in club history conquered. He thus laid the foundation of the Expresso da Vitória ( " Victory Express" ), as that went in the team from 1945 to 1952 in the history and benefited especially from his forward line Ademir scorer Lele, Isaías, Jair da Rosa Pinto and Chico on the left wing. Mid-1946 by, third win in series of relatively insignificant city tournament Taça da Prefeitura do Distrito Federal Viera was replaced by Ernesto Santos, but was unsuccessful. In the years that it should be the big Flávio Costa led the club through the most successful period in its history, the same with Viera the end of the 1930s Izidor furrier to Brazil imported WM system to a system based on an irregular diamond shape in midfield system has transposed ..

1947 Ondino Viera was with Botafogo on the bench and led the club to its third state championship runner-up in the series - behind Flávio Costa's Vasco da Gama. Stars of Botafogo in that year included the striker Heleno de Freitas, the Viera originally wanted to get rid of because he did not meet his expectations regarding discipline and team spirit, and Octávio. His successor Zezé Moreira 1948 should finally succeed in the long-awaited title. Viera even coached from 1948 to 1949 again the Fluminese FC, ​​with whom he after three finals against Flavio Costa's Vasco da Gama won the city tournament in Rio, the Municipal Torneio 1948.

Viera himself followed in 1950 Zezé Moreira's brother Aymoré Moreira as manager of Bangu AC after, where he remained until the end of the state championship from 1952 in January 1953. With the club from the factory area in the west of the city 1951, he was vice - champion of Rio de Janeiro. In the two hard-fought decision games - a total of three field references - lost Bangu against Fluminense FC, ​​in which Zezé Moreira trained now. When Torneio Rio - São Paulo Bangu reached a respectable 3rd place. Star at that time in Bangu were the national team Zizinho and Menezes, 1952 were shared with 19 hits scorers, as well as the Argentine Rafanelli. The well-known journalist Mário Filho - after the Maracanã stadium is officially named - titled at the time an article about the association with "The new player in football in Rio ". When Tim was Bangu, the Viera began in 1951 as a youth coach, successor.

March 1953, he joined São Paulo at the time of SE Palmeiras, where he Jair da Rosa Pinto had again as a player. After Palmeiras Viera but was already at the sectionally disappointing Torneio Rio - São Paulo replaced in September during the Games to the state championship in São Paulo. From May 1954 to February 1955 Viera was at Atletico Mineiro in Belo Horizonte. He led the club in the crucial matches to that time still held as Campeonato Municipal de Belo Horizonte State Championship of Minas Gerais of the year 1954., But it was his compatriot Ricardo Diéz reserved finally four games against arch-rivals Cruzeiro EC, which until May 1955 were enough to secure the 17th league title for Atlético.

Return to Uruguay, coach of Paraguay and Uruguay

Later that year he returned to Uruguay. With Nacional he won until 1960 with the championships in 1955, 56 and 57 a hat-trick - the third of the club's history. In 1958 he was again runner-up and took in June with a 2-1 victory in the Spanish La Coruña against CR Flamengo from Rio with Nacional for the first time the Trofeo Teresa Herrera after Uruguay.

In 1963 he joined again the country and was in coach of Paraguay. In the Copa América Ton took second place behind the hosts and Sensation winner Bolivia. Then followed a commitment at Club Guaraní in the capital Asunción, with whom he won the championship in 1964, the sixth in club history. He laid the foundation for the golden era of the association that lasted until 1970 and two more league titles and two runner-up earned. 1965 Viera returned back to Uruguay and coached the CA Cerro in the capital Montevideo.

In the same year he was but already coach of the Uruguayan national football team and accompany them through the 1966 World Cup in England. In this tournament, he became the first coach as part of a World Cup his own son - Brazil-born Milton Viera - sent to the field. Uruguay came here with a 1 -4-4 -1 system in which a Libero acted behind a back four. In the group stage thus succeeded Uruguay in their opening match of the tournament to the eventual champions England at Wembley wrest a 0-0 - the only game that England did not win in this tournament. Using a 2-1 victory against France and another goalless draw Uruguay succeeded advance into the quarter-finals, where the later vice world champion Germany clearly won 4-0. From this point of view Uruguayan German victory was not without controversy. 1-0 in the 12th minute was preceded by a seeming deliberately handling the ball by Karl- Heinz Quick Inger. Before the three other hits of the German, the English referee Jim Finney pointed between the 49th and 54th minute, two Uruguayan players of the field. After the German referee Rudolf Kreitlein had also refereed controversial in the English victory against Argentina in another quarter-final pairing and thus all South American teams were eliminated, some conspiracy theories arose. In 1967, Enrique Fernández successor of Viera at the Celeste.

1967 Viera returned again shortly to Bangu AC back to Rio. In 1969 a commitment in the Argentine province of Santa Fe at the local CA Colón, who in 1966 was the first time risen to the excellence. In the years 1971 and 1972 Ondino Viera still engagements with the Uruguayan capital clubs Liverpool FC and CA Peñarol had. With Liverpool he reaches the third place in the championship, the hitherto best result in the club's history. The Aurinegros its premiere fell on the coach chair on January 28, 1972, a 2-0 victory over Boca Juniors in the Copa Atlántico Sur also positive. However, he was replaced there by Nestor Goncalves in the current year.

From Ondino Viera is the sentence " Other countries have their history, Uruguay has its football " survived. He is together with César Viera as co -author of the book published in 2002 El futbol: listed: arte de América ( "The Art America Football ").

Ondino Viera died on 27 June 1997 of heart failure. The Parliament of Uruguay praised his work.

Clubs

Achievements

  • Cup of Uruguay: 1934, 1955, 1956, 1957 (? )
  • Championship of Argentina: 1936, 1937
  • Cup of Paraguay: 1964
  • State Championship in Rio de Janeiro: in 1938, 1940, 1941, Torneio Extra 1941 1945
  • Copa América: 1963 (2nd place)
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