Abel Picabea
Personal information
Full name Abel Picabea Allero
Date of birth (1906-06-20)20 June 1906
Place of birth Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date of death (1993-06-20)June 20, 1993
Place of death Rio de Janeiro
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1925 San Lorenzo
1926–1927 Estudiantil Porteño
1928 Almagro
1931 Barracas Central
1932 Rosario Central 12 (1)
1937–1941 São Cristóvão
Managerial career
1941 Canto do Rio
1942–1944 São Cristóvão
1945–1946 Madureira
1946–1947 Santos
1948 Portuguesa Santista
1949–1950 América Mineiro
1951 Olaria
1952 Palmeiras
1953 Ferroviária
1954 Portuguesa
1956–1957 Sporting CP
1957–1959 Oviedo
1959–1960 Sporting Gijón
1960–1961 Vasco da Gama
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Abel Picabea Allero (20 June 1906 – 1993) was an Argentine football manager and player. He played as a midfielder.

Career

Born in Buenos Aires, Picabea started his career with San Lorenzo before representing Estudiantil Porteño and Rosario Central in his homeland. In 1937, he moved to Brazil and joined São Cristóvão, where he retired in 1941.

Immediately after retiring Picabea took up coaching, with his first managerial club being Canto do Rio. He subsequently returned to São Cristóvão and won the Taça da Prefeitura do Distrito Federal in 1943.[1]

In 1946, after being in charge of Madureira, Picabea was appointed manager of Santos, becoming the club's first Argentine manager;[2] he is also the foreign manager who managed the club for the most times.[3] He subsequently worked at Portuguesa Santista, América Mineiro, Olaria, Palmeiras, Ferroviária and Portuguesa, winning the Fita Azul with the latter.[4]

Picabea arrived at Sporting CP in the later stages of the 1955–56 season, he was in charge of the club during the whole 1956–57 campaign before taking over Real Oviedo in the Spanish Segunda División. After winning the second division with the club, he was later in charge of neighbouring Sporting de Gijón before returning to Brazil in 1960 with Vasco da Gama.

Honours

Manager

São Cristóvão

Oviedo

References

  1. ^ "São Cristóvão, 1943: um ano marcante em sua história" [São Cristóvão, 1943: a remarkable year in their history] (in Brazilian Portuguese). Caderno dos Esportes. 16 September 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  2. ^ "Sampaoli é o terceiro técnico argentino do Santos" [Sampaoli is the third Argentine manager of Santos] (in Brazilian Portuguese). Santos FC. 18 December 2018. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  3. ^ "Técnicos Estrangeiros" [Foreign managers] (in Brazilian Portuguese). Acervo Santos FC. 23 December 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
  4. ^ "Portuguesa Tri-Fita Azul (1954)" [Portuguesa third time champion of the Fita Azul (1954)] (in Brazilian Portuguese). Acervo da Bola. 9 May 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2020.

External links

Abel Picabea – Managerial positions
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