Pedro Troglio

Pedro Troglio in 2006

Pedro Antonio Troglio ( born July 28, 1965 in Luján ) is a former Argentine football player and current coach. He played as a player in Argentina and Italy, took part in the World Cup in 1990 and practices currently the coach of the Paraguayan club Club Cerro Porteño from.

Playing career

Club career

Pedro Troglio began coming to play soccer at CA River Plate, today's record champions Argentina in football, from the capital Buenos Aires. For River Plate Troglio played six years from 1983 to the summer of 1988 and it came to 59 league games in La Liga with three goals, but mostly did not act as a regular force.

In 1988 he left River Plate and Argentina and Hellas Verona joined in Italy's Serie A. Under coach Osvaldo Bagnoli Pedro Troglio became an integral part of the Hellas team and contributed 32 season games to reach eleventh place in Serie A 1988/89 at. For the 1989/90 season he joined the club again and joined Lazio Rome, which had been in the preseason about the same performance level as Verona. 1989/90 but Troglio was with Lazio seventh, while Verona descent only five years after the first league title in club history. Pedro Troglio remained until 1991 when Lazio and clocked up forty league appearances for the Romans. In the season 1991/92 he chose the jersey of Ascoli Calcio, just risen from the B series. But you could not keep them in the premier league and got the last one once again. Despite the descent Pedro Troglio Ascoli remained faithful and accompanied the club to Serie B, where until his retirement from the Marches in 1994, the re-emergence was not done.

In 1994, Pedro Troglio joined for three years Avispa Fukuoka in Japan and has been with the club in 1995 Japanese soccer champions. He made between 1994 and 1997 56 league games with twenty hits. In 1997 he returned to his homeland and played from then on for Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata, where he came to 124 games in the league operated until after a year he ended his footballing career in 2003 when unterklassigen club Villa Dálmine.

National

Between 1987 and 1990, Pedro Troglio 21 times was used in the Argentine national football team, where he scored two Torerfolge. After he already was in 1989 when reaching the third place in the Copa América with it, he was also appointed to the squad for the FIFA World Cup 1990 in Italy by coach Carlos Bilardo. Troglio was used during the tournament in almost every game, only the defeat against Cameroon (0-1) in Milan's San Siro Stadium, he missed. After that, he was an integral part of the Argentine midfield, but was often take a one-or substitutes. On July 8, 1990 but he was then in the starting lineup, as the Olympic Stadium in Rome, Troglios sporting home at club level at that time, in the final of the World Championship Argentina met Germany. In the rematch of the 1986 Finals, this time Germany had the better day, won 1-0 and was crowned world champion for the third time.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career as a football player was Pedro Troglio coach. His first post as Responsible on the sidelines, he held the then third division side CD Godoy Cruz Mendoza, who had taken División in recent years a rapid ascent from amateur to the upper regions of the Primera. However Troglio coached the club in 2004 still Primera C times. After less than a year in office, he left Godoy Cruz but again, in order to accept an offer of are in trouble Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata. 2005 Troglio Gimnasia y Esgrima led back to the Primera División and managed in the following season in the league. In 2007 he resigned after a series of defeats, including a 0-7 against local rivals Estudiantes de La Plata, as well as discrepancies with the followers of GELP and was replaced by Víctor Bernay. Shortly thereafter, he was introduced by President Jorge Burruchaga as Coach for CA Independiente. After some poor results in March 2008, however, he was then replaced by Miguel Ángel Santoro. In the same year Troglio signed a contract with the Paraguayan traditional club Club Cerro Porteño, the on winning the Apertura 2009 he led four points ahead of Club Libertad. Also in 2009, the semifinals in the Copa Sudamericana was reached where the club but once again failed in the round of four teams. 2010 ended Troglios time as coach of Cerro Porteño he was now responsible for the sporting success with Argentinos Juniors, where he became the successor to coach Claudio Borghi master. But Pedro Troglio failed to match the success of its predecessor, and was released after a poor start to the Apertura 2011. A little later, he returned to the dugout Cerro Porteño, where he has the office of the coach still.

Achievements

• Japanese football championship: 1x (1995 )
• Paraguayan soccer championship: 1x ( Apertura 2009)