Vicente Cantatore
Vicente Cantatore Socci ( born October 6, 1935 in Rosario, Santa Fe ) is a former Argentine football player and later coach. As a player Cantatore acted with little success, among other things in the jersey of San Lorenzo de Almagro, CA Tigre and the Chilean club Santiago Wanderers CD.
After the end of his active career as a football player Cantatore became a coach and led CD Cobreloa twice in the final of the Copa Libertadores, both finals would be lost. In addition to a brief involvement with the Chilean national soccer team he coached for a long time in Spain, for example, when Sevilla FC, Real Valladolid and Sporting Gijon.
Playing career
Vicente Cantatore, born on October 6, 1935 at Rosario, Argentina (Santa Fe) in the province of Santa Fe, began playing football in Córdoba at CA Talleres, where he rose to 1955 under contract.
Then played Cantatore, who was found on the position of a midfielder, three years for San Lorenzo de Almagro, but only got very used occasionally. His following exposure to CA Tigre did not have many uses for Cantatore left, he lingered there, but only less than a year.
After the end of his time at Tigre Cantatore left Argentina and went to Chile, where he was to spend the rest of his playing career and later also a significant part of his coaching career. In Chile, Vicente Cantatore played for three clubs; these were successively the Rangers de Talca, Santiago Wanderers and Deportes Concepción, great successes were him here, however, not granted. In the latter clubs Vicente Cantatores playing career ended then, he hit a then its quite successful coaching career.
Coaching career
Great success with CD Cobreloa
Vicente Cantatore began his career as a football coach for the Chilean club Lota Schwager, where he stood up to the year 1980 under contract. Lota Schwager, now long since disappeared into the depths of the unterklassigen Chilean football played at the time consistently in La Liga.
1980 Cantatore was obliged CD Cobreloa as successor Andrés Prieto. Cobreloa, a club from the city of Calama in northern Chile, was only three years earlier and has since experienced a steep climb. Under the new coach Vicente Cantatore managed Cobreloa to bring the first championship of the club's history in 1980, when in the Primera División, the first place with three points ahead of CF Universidad de Chile was occupied. This was also the first time Cobreloa in club history for the Copa Libertadores, the most important football tournament for club teams in South America, to start. In the Copa Libertadores, in 1981 it ranked first in the first group stage in group five first place in front of Universidad de Chile and the two representatives of the Peruvian Sporting Cristal and Atlético Torino. The second group phase could be successfully designed for general amazement of the experts, as the underdog from Calama before the two Uruguayan team Nacional Montevideo and CA Peñarol failed to qualify for the final. Was waiting with Flamengo Rio de Janeiro an opponent, the Cobreloa finally could not overcome. After Flamengo and Cobreloa had in return game ever won once, had to choose a play about the winner of the Copa Libertadores in 1981. In Montevideo to Flamengo continued to players like Zico, Tita or Júnior then 2-0 and won the Libertadores Cup after all.
"We are Chilean champions and they have to respect us! "
In league play CD Cobreloa in the year 1981 was second behind CSD Colo- Colo, which authorized again to participate in the Copa Libertadores. And this time is Cantatores team was very successful. In the first group stage the team around players like Oscar Wirth, Enzo Escobar or Mario Soto Colo -Colo and the two Ecuadorian Teams Liga de Quito and Barcelona SC Guayaquil left behind, in the second group stage, they sat down in front of Club Olimpia of Paraguay, and Deportes Tolima of Colombia through and secured a renewed finals. This time was called the enemy Peñarol Montevideo from Uruguay. After the first leg had ended at the legendary Estadio Centenario in Montevideo with a goalless draw to Cobreloa could make quite legitimate hopes for the first triumph in the Copa Libertadores. In the return leg in Santiago de Chile, it was a long time 0:0, but Fernando Morena scored in the 89th minute for the 1-0 Peñarol and secured his club thus the victory in the Copa Libertadores 1982. CD Cobreloa had it the second time missed in series at the last minute to win the most important continental title of South American football. To date, the club not the advance again managed to reach the final of this competition.
Vicente Cantatore remained until 1984 Coach of CD Cobreloa and was able to celebrate another championship title at this time. In the Primera División in 1982 they finished after the end of all game days the first place in the table with four points ahead of Colo -Colo. However, by allowing participation in the Copa Libertadores 1983, ended after the first group stage in second group one behind Estudiantes de La Plata and in Colo -Colo and Ferro Carril Oeste.
In 1984, Vicente Cantatore resigned at Cobreloa and took over as the successor of Isaac Carrasco the post of the Chilean national team coach. Great successes were, however, this is not granted to him and he lost his job a few months back.
First engagements in Europe
After leaving the office as Chilean coach Vicente Cantatore left the South American football first and went to Europe, where he in the Spanish Primera División a job at Real Valladolid found. With the association of Castile and Leon, he finished in the Primera División 1985/86 the tenth place in the table, but was replaced after the season by Xabier Azkargorta. Cantatore was subsequently for a year without a job, before he returned in 1987 to Real Valladolid and then worked for the club two years. In league play Cantatores team was doing 1987/88 aft, a year later it was ranked by the end of all game days even on a surprising sixth place. Also in 1988 /89 managed to Real Valladolid, after wins over Real Zaragoza, Athletic Bilbao, FC Cadiz and Deportivo La Coruña, in the final of the Spanish cup competition, Copa del Rey, go where they met Real Madrid. Although Real Valladolid, where at that time players such as the young Fernando Hierro or Branko Miljuš played, quite well sold, it was inferior to the star-studded Madrid 0-1 goals, with Rafael Gordillo scored the decisive goal after only five minutes of play.
Vicente Cantatore announced after the end of the 1988/89 season his resignation as coach of Real Valladolid and became the new season trainers at FC Sevilla. In the first year in Sevilla qualified for the UEFA Cup in 1990/91, where, however, already in the second round against the From Torpedo Moscow from the Soviet Union was successful. In league play the Sevilla FC was 1990/91 aft. After the end of the season, parted ways Vicente Cantatore and his employer, the coach then went once back to his Chilean adopted home.
Return to South America
In 1991, Vicente Cantatore the vacant coaching job at CD Universidad Católica in Santiago de Chile. With Universidad Católica he won in 1991, the Copa Chile, the cup competition of the Chilean football after the finals Cantarores old club CD Cobreloa 1-0 was defeated.
The term of office of Vicente Cantatore at Universidad Católica ended in 1992. A year later, he was for a short time as the person responsible on the sideline during the Argentine first division club Rosario Central active. This ended prematurely and without much success work was, moreover, the only one in the coaching career of Vicente Cantatore in his native Argentina. Then he returned to Chile and supervised Colo-Colo Santiago in 1994 for a short time before brought him an offer from the Spanish club CD Tenerife again in European football.
Once again work in Spain
In Tenerife was Vicente Cantatore succeeded his compatriot Jorge Valdano, who moved to Real Madrid, and worked subsequently for one year for CD Tenerife. In La Liga 1994/95 they finished once all game days, but only on the fifteen table space, escaping the relegation zone just barely, prompting Cantatore had to take his hat at the end of the season and was replaced by the German Jupp Heynckes, the Tenerife a few later to should lead to the semifinals of the UEFA Cup.
In summer 1996, Vicente Cantatore took over a third time the office of the head coach at Real Valladolid and reached with the club in La Liga 1996/97, a quite respectable seventh place in the table, the person entitled to participate in the UEFA Cup in the following season. But the experienced Vicente Cantatore not more. Than coach of Real Valladolid, he left the club after the end of the 1996/97 season
There now followed a brief, unsuccessful interlude with the Portuguese first division side Sporting Lisbon, where Cantatore was released after a few months, his was succeeded by Carlos Manuel. 1998 worked Cantatore as short back in Spain at Real Betis, but also brought an early dismissal, the end of the term in the first year. After a year break, the Argentine coach his last station from 2000 to 2001 had División at Sporting Gijon in the Segunda.
Achievements
- Chilean Championship: 2x
- Chilean Cup victory:
- Finalists of the Copa Libertadores: 2x
- Finalists of the Copa del Rey: 1x
- Spanish Coach of the Year: 1x