Oscar Washington Tabarez Sclavo
was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, March 3, 1947. Is a teacher by profession, a
former player and current coach of the Uruguayan football? As a player played
in five Uruguayan teams all of them in the Second Division and one in Mexico. As
coach, he coached ten teams in five different countries, in addition coaching
twice the Uruguayan U-20 team and also the senior team.
Biography of Oscar Tabarez
He worked as a teacher in the
schools of the Hill, Paso de la Arena and La Teja, combining for several years,
his passion was for football with teaching. As a player, he served in the
positions of center back and right side between 1967 and 1978. He began his
coaching career in 1980 in the lower divisions of Bella Vista. In 1987, Tabarez
led Peñarol to win the champions of the Copa Libertadores.
Oscar Tabarez became the Coach of
the Uruguay national football team during the World Cup South Africa 2010, where
Uruguay reached fourth place with an outstanding performance. He also led the
Uruguayan national team in the 1990 World Cup held in Italy, reaching the
second round and losing against the hosts.
In 2010, due to the significant
participation of the Uruguayan national team in the World Cup in South Africa,
Tabarez was nominated, with ten other coaches, a Coach of the Year at the FIFA
and received the award for best coach of the season, presented by Fox Sports.
In 2011, the teacher gets to the fifteenth Copa America Uruguay for his
country, for the edition in Argentina. It stands also for directing three of
the biggest clubs in the history of international football: Peñarol, Boca
Juniors and Milan.
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