Gerardo Daniel Martino Tata is a former
Argentina football player and current Coach was born in Rosario, November 20,
1962. And in July 23, 2013 he signed with Fc Barcelona to be his Coach.
His Career as Player
He played on bench as midfielder
, where he spent most of his football career as player in Newell’s Old Boys
team , which won with it the Championship in the year 1987/1988, 1990/1991 ,
and then in 1991/1992. He is the most players who played games with his team
with a set of 505 games, and in 2003 was named Soccer highlights of the club
history according to his history in recording goals for his team.
So He debuted in 1980 and played with his team
until 1995 although he played in 1991 and 1994 briefly at CD Tenerife and
Lanus.
In 1996 he moved to Deportivo O’Higgins
Club in Chile, and in the same year moved to continue his career at Barcelona
SC in Ecuador.
Also he played in the national
team of Argentine in the second chances.
His career as a coach
So through his good results in Argentine,
he began his career in Paraguay, by winning four championships, three titles
with Liberated and one with Cerro Porteno. This thing raised his name to be the
coach of Paraguay team in 2007, in this year he honored as the Best South
American coach of the year.
Gerardo Martino led trained
Paraguay team in a total of 742 games, where Paraguay reached to the
qualification of the World Cup in South Africa 2010. There he earned his best
historical classification, but he lost in front of Spain in the Quarterfinals
by a result 1-0.
After that in 2011 Paraguay reached to the
final in Copa America, where they lost the game in front of Uruguay 3-0, though
he left Paraguay after this tournament.
In 2012 he took the coaching of
Newell’s Old Boys, where the team was so weak to the extent that he was threatened
by the decline. But in the next year 2013 he reached with the team to win the
title of Torneo and semifinal of the Copa Liberatores, which lost in front of
Atletico Minerio. He lost in the final of Champion of Torneo Initial in front
of Velez Sarsfield on June 29, 2013 with 1-0.
In July 22, 2013, the board of Barcelona
football club signed with him to be the coach for two years.
He arrived this year to Barcelona
and started his good results through friendly matches of Barcelona and today
the team achieved his big win in the first day of La Liga in front of Levante
by 7-0 goals.
Martino is considered the fourth
Argentina Coach in the history of Barcelona after Helenio Herrera, Roquue
Olsen, and Cesar Luis Menotti.