Osvaldo Escudero

Osvaldo Escudero

Personal information
Full name	Osvaldo Salvador Escudero
Date of birth	(1960-10-15) October 15, 1960 (age 63)
Place of birth	Paso de los Libres, Argentina
Height	1.60 m (5 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1978–1979	Chacarita	37	(6)
1979	Vélez Sársfield	9	(0)
1980	Chacarita
1981	Boca Juniors	41	(5)
1982–1985	Unión	137	(20)
1986	Independiente	26	(5)
1986–1989	Rosario Central	116	(16)
1989–1990	Racing Club	52	(6)
1991	Barcelona
1991–1992	Urawa Reds	30	(4)
1993	Platense
1993–1994	For Ever
International career
1979	Argentina U-20	5	(1)
Managerial career
2012	Santa Tecla FC
2014–2016	Santa Tecla FC [1]
2016–2017	CD FAS [2]
2017–2018	CD Águila [3] [4] [5] [6] [7] [8] [9] [10]
2020	Santa Tecla FC [11]
2022-2023	Atletico Marte
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Osvaldo Salvador Escudero (born October 15, 1960, in Paso de los Libres, Corrientes) is a former Argentine professional footballer. ^{[12] [13] [14] [15] [16] [17] [18] [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]} He was part of the Argentina Under-20 team that won the 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship in Japan.

Escudero started his career with Chacarita Juniors in 1978, he also played for Boca Juniors where he won the Metropolitano 1981 and at Rosario Central where he won the 1986–1987 championship. He played abroad for Barcelona SC (Ecuador) and Mitsubishi Motors (Japan).

His other clubs include Vélez Sársfield, Unión de Santa Fe, Independiente, Racing Club, Platense and Chaco For Ever.

His younger brother Sergio Escudero is also football player.

The Story of a champion

With 12 different teams in his 16-year career as a professional footballer, Pichi Escudero was the beginning of his career in 1978, when 17 Aprils behind debuted with the first team of Chacarita Juniors in his native Argentina.

Escudero good participation in this campaign helped him be summoned to the FIFA U-20 World Cup and Argentina national under-20 football team albiceleste, that it would be world champion that played in Japan in 1979, with the help of Diego Armando Maradona and Ramon Diaz category.

"We were very young (with Maradona), where we hardly had the illusion of success in first. Diego always had very good appreciation for me, we were very good friends. On the court always interpreted the game well and movements Diego, he also mine and did a very good duo. Also with Ramon Diaz (scorer of the tournament). We got along all three, "said Escudero, recalling the exploits with the Argentina youth.

After a short time in Vélez and return to Chacarita Juniors, recently it took to Boca Juniors will set eyes on the young striker. In the Boca Juniors team he returned to share dressing room with Maradona, who Escudero described as the greatest player he saw in his life.

Subsequently, their experiences Independiente de Avellaneda, Rosario Central and Racing Club, helped to "Pichi" out of Argentina to go on loan in 1991 to Barcelona from Ecuador, where he was champion after six months in which he participated.

After passing the Japanese football, he retired with Tiger. And as exfutbolista two kindergartens and a personal business in his country gave a comfortable and peaceful life Escudero. It gave him enough to get on with life, leaving aside the professional football until Jaime appeared "the Chelona" Jaime Rodríguez, who sought his advice for tryout in ADFAS.

"I never thought to be technical. Never. I came to El Salvador and Jaime is a close friend of Guillermo Figueroa (official of) Santa Tecla and he was joking if I would lead Santa Tecla. Jokingly he said yes too. I had no vocation to be technical, because I did not like being technical. Communicate always cost me. I was always very quiet and a technician must talk much, convey their ideas, "Escudero confessed, saying that something that helped him develop the talent strategist was the fact of directing veteran teams in Argentina".

In the same way, Escudero admits that despite fogueando go in the league veterans adjust to the technical direction of Santa Tecla was not easy. Today makes a contrast of the first tournament (Apertura 2012) that came with the tournament that has now led. Expresses feel more confident and solvency to convey ideas to his players in a better way.

The first stage ended with Santa Tecla, according to his opinion, not by the fact of making a bad role, but because "he was not comfortable with my assistant Guillermo Rivera. It was not faithful to me and the board gave him the right (trust) to it and if so is because they did not trust me", said Escudero.

Today, with its second phase with Santa Tecla, besides being the first coach to steer in first division, it has become the first coach who gave the team a title of the hills. The challenge is now bigger. CONCACAF Champions League on the horizon.

Escudero is very clear and is aware of the inferiority against teams with higher return and better foreigners. However, leaving an image worthy of national football, but especially yours, it is the main objective.

Coaching career Club

From June 2012, Escudero was the new coach of the Santa Tecla of First Division of El Salvador.

October 31, 2012, left the Santa Tecla by problems with Guillermo Rivera (former Salvadoran selected), but returned for the title of the Clausura 2015 tournament champion.

Clubs

Club	Country	Year
Chacarita Jr.	Argentina	1978–1979
Vélez Sarsfield	Argentina	1979–1980
Chacarita Jr.	Argentina	1980
Boca Juniors	Argentina	1981
Santa Fe	Argentina	1982–1985
Independiente	Argentina	1986
Rosario Central	Argentina	1986–1989
Racing Club	Argentina	1989–1990
Barcelona	Ecuador	1991
Red Diamonds	Japan	1991–1992
Platense	Argentina	1993
For Ever	Argentina	1993–1994

Footballer honours

achievements	Club	season
Argentine Primera División	Boca Juniors	1981
Argentine Primera División	Rosario Central	1987
Serie A	Barcelona	1991

Managerial stats

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	%
Aguila	El Salvador	2017	2018	29	10	10	9	45
Santa Tecla	El Salvador	2020	2020	11	2	5	4	33.33
Atletico Marte	El Salvador	June 21, 2022	March 4, 2023	20	3	9	8	30

Clubs

Club	Country	Year
Santa Tecla	El Salvador	2015
Santa Tecla	El Salvador	2014–2016

Honours football coach

achievements	Club	season
Salvadoran Primera División	Santa Tecla	2015

International football player selection

Club	Year
Argentina national under-20 football team	1979

Footballer honours

achievements	Club	season
FIFA U-20 World Cup	Argentina national under-20 football team	1979

References

1. "Deportes | Noticias de El Salvador". Archived from the original on February 19, 2023. Retrieved January 31, 2017.
2. "Deportes | Noticias de el Salvador".
3. "Escudero no ve cuesta arriba la serie".
4. ""Perica" Benítez aclaró la discusión con "Pichi" Escudero | elsalvador.com". Archived from the original on December 25, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
5. "Osvaldo "Pichi" Escudero: "Alianza es hoy por hoy el mejor equipo de el Salvador, pero tenemos con qué ganarle" | elsalvador.com". Archived from the original on December 26, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
6. "Los refuerzos que pide Escudero para Águila en el Clausura 2018".
7. "Osvaldo Escudero retornó al país para reiniciar entrenos con Águila". El Gráfico.
8. ""Pichi": 'De a poco vamos agarrando ritmo' | elsalvador.com". Archived from the original on January 8, 2018. Retrieved January 8, 2018.
9. "Águila todavía busca un volante y un delantero".
10. "Osvaldo Escudero lamenta la falta de puntería en derrota ante Alianza".
11. "Osvaldo "Pichi" Escudero dirigirá al Santa Tecla en el Clausura 2020". El Gráfico (in Spanish). December 30, 2019. Retrieved January 1, 2019.
12. ""Pichi" Escudero: "No es una utopía el campeonato" | elsalvador.com". Archived from the original on December 26, 2017. Retrieved December 25, 2017.
13. "Los "requisitos" de Osvaldo Escudero para su continuidad en Águila".
14. "La foto del nuevo colombiano del Águila que le hace ganar seguidores". El Gráfico.
15. "Osvaldo Escudero: "Estoy conforme con el rendimiento del equipo"". January 9, 2018.
16. "Osvaldo Escudero: "Deris Umanzor merece un homenaje del Águila"".
17. "El Águila sonríe después del empate con el subcampeón". El Gráfico.
18. "Osvaldo Escudero: "Estamos creciendo como equipo"". January 25, 2018.
19. "Águila daría a conocer hoy sus bajas".
20. "Las claves de Escudero para vencer al Alianza".
21. "¿Se le acabó el margen de error al Águila en el Clausura 2018?".
22. "Osvaldo Escudero, técnico de Águila, lanzó críticas al árbitro del juego ante Audaz".
23. "Águila despide a "Pichi" Escudero a dos días del clásico nacional". February 23, 2018.

External links

• laprensagrafica.com at the Wayback Machine (archived May 26, 2015)
• laprensagrafica.com
• Osvaldo Escudero at BDFA (in Spanish)
• Osvaldo Escudero – FIFA competition record (archived)
• Osvaldo Escudero at J.League ( archive ) (in Japanese)