COPA AMERICA 2019 MANAGERS-THEN AND NOW

Copa America 2019 is starting soon which will be 46th edition of that tournament. It will be held in Brazil. Guest nations are Qatar and Japan. Chile are two-time defending champions, having won the 2015 and 2016 editions of the tournament. Most successful nation is Uruguay with 15 titles.

Here on this post you can see all teams managers during their playing days and now as managers. Some of them never played football professionally like Qatar manager Felix Sanchez Bas who started working as a Barcelona youth team coach. He worked there for 10 years and then moved to Qatar. Since 2017 he is a Qatar national team manager and lead them to Asian Cup title earlier this year. Chile manager Reinaldo Rueda also never played football professionally. He started his coaching career in 1994 with Cortulua.

GROUP A:

Tite: Guarani and Brazil

Eduardo Villegas: Club San Jose and Bolivia

Rafael Dudamel: Venezula (56 matches as national team player) and Venezuela

Ricardo Gareca: Argentina (20 matches) and Peru

GROUP B:

Lionel Scaloni: Deportivo La Coruna (7 matches for national team) and Argentina

Carlos Queiroz: Ferroviario and Colombia

Eduardo Berizzo: Marseille (13 matches for Argentinian national team) and Paraguay

Felix Sanchez Bas: Qatar

GROUP C:

Oscar Tabarez: Sud America and Uruguay

Hernan Dario Gomez: Antioquia and Ecuador

Hajime Moriyasu: Sanfrecce Hiroshima and Japan

Reinaldo Rueda: Deportivo Cali (coach) and Chile