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Juan Sara
Personal information
Full name Juan Manuel Sara[1]
Date of birth (1976-10-13)13 October 1976(age 47)
Place of birth Buenos Aires,Argentina
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Deportivo Maipú(manager)
Youth career
Almirante Brown
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1993–1997 Almirante Brown 30 (3)
1997–1998 Nueva Chicago 15 (4)
1998–1999 FC Hradec Králové 7 (0)
1999–2000 Cerro Porteño 34 (14)
2000–2003 Dundee 88 (28)
2003 →Coventry City(loan) 3 (1)
2004 Reggiana 2 (0)
2004–2005 Shelbourne 0 (0)
2005 Huracán 2 (0)
2006 Vaduz 30 (21)
2007 Gallipoli 2 (0)
2007 Lucena 6 (2)
2008 Locarno 24 (17)
2009 Cerro Porteño 7 (1)
2010 →River Plate Puerto Rico(loan) 2 (4)
2010–2011 Lobos de la BUAP 32 (22)
2011–2012 Correcaminos UAT 27 (11)
2012–2013 Ferro Carril Oeste 6 (2)
Total 317 (130)
Managerial career
2015–2016 Club Atlético Ituzaingó(assistant)
2016–2017 Cañuelas(assistant)
2018 Comunicaciones(assistant)
2018 Midland(assistant)
2018–2020 Estudiantes BA(assistant)
2020 Godoy Cruz(assistant)
2021 Tigre(assistant)
2021–2022 Deportivo Maipú
2022–2023 Ferro Carril Oeste
2023 Estudiantes BA
2023 Tigre
2024– Deportivo Maipú
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Juan Manuel Sara(born 13 October 1976, inBuenos Aires) is a retiredArgentinefootballerand currently the manager ofPrimera NacionalclubDeportivo Maipú.He also holds Italian nationality.

Playing career[edit]

Sara was playing with Argentine sideAlmirante BrownandNueva Chicago,CzechsideHradec Králové,ParaguayansideCerro Porteñobefore move to Scotland.

Sara moved toScottishsideDundeein 2000. Sara played 88 league matches during his three-and-a-half years with theDark Bluesbut left in November 2003 due to Dundee's threat of administration. He previously had a short loan spell withCoventry City,[2]where he scored once against Nottingham Forest.[3]

Sara moved on toReggianain December 2003.[4]Sara played the rest of that season before joining Irish sideShelbournein August 2004,[5]where he played for a year. In July 2005, Sara moved back to his homeland withHuracánbut stayed for only a few months, joiningLiechtensteinersideVaduzin January 2006. After a year with them, Sara moved to Italy withGallipoli,again spending only a few months before his departure in June 2007. Sara joined Lucena shortly afterwards, then returned toChallenge LeagueforLocarno.On 20 January 2009 joined toCerro Porteño.[6][7]In March 2010, he was loaned toRiver Plate Puerto Ricoof thePuerto Rico Soccer League.He officially retired from playing in 2014.

Coaching career[edit]

Sara entered coaching in 2015 withClub Atlético Ituzaingóunder managerDiego Martínez,before leaving the following year with Martínez and his coaching team toCañuelas.[8][9]In 2018, Sara again followed Martínez toEstudiantes de Buenos Airesas assistant coach.[10]He would later follow Martínez in roles atGodoy Cruzin 2020 andClub Atlético Tigrein 2021.[11][12]While withEl Matador,Sara helped the club win the2021 Primera Nacionaland achieve promotion to theArgentine Primera División.[13]In December 2021, Sara would leave Martínez and was named manager ofPrimera NacionalsideDeportivo Maipú.[14]At the end of the season, Sara became manager of his final club as a player and fellow Primera Nacional sideFerro Carril Oeste.[15]

Miscellany[edit]

In 2001 Sara attended a recording session to provide a reading ofThe Serenity Prayerwhich was used as a basis for the trackSara's Song (I Thank God)as part of the albumIt's My Dundee[16]to provide funds for the Dundee F.C. youth development fund.

Personal life[edit]

Sara is a devout Christian.[17]

References[edit]

  1. ^"Juan Sara".Barry Hugman's Footballers.Retrieved25 March2017.
  2. ^"Coventry sign Sara".BBC Sport website. 10 January 2003.
  3. ^"Nottm Forest 1–1 Coventry".BBC.13 February 2003.Retrieved28 March2010.
  4. ^"Sad Georgi heads home".Evening Telegraph.24 December 2003. Archived fromthe originalon 20 November 2008.
  5. ^"Shels suffer UEFA Cup blow".BBC Sport website. 15 September 2004.
  6. ^"Schweizerischer Fussballverband – SFV".
  7. ^"El Ciclón con dos postulantes a ocupar el puesto de" 9 "y" Cachi "mete presión".Cerro Porteño. 29 January 2009.Retrieved16 February2009.
  8. ^Sara, Juan (23 November 2015)."@juanmanuelsara on Twitter".Twitter.Retrieved12 May2020.
  9. ^Sara, Juan (1 July 2016)."@juanmanuelsara on Twitter".Twitter.Retrieved12 May2020.
  10. ^Sara, Juan (24 July 2018)."@juanmanuelsara on Twitter".Twitter.Retrieved12 May2020.
  11. ^"Godoy Cruz presentó a Diego Martínez, su nuevo DT"[Godoy Cruz presented Diego Martínez, their new manager] (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 10 August 2020.Retrieved20 December2020.
  12. ^Noticias, I. A. M. (12 January 2021)."Diego Martínez asumió en Tigre".IAM Noticias(in Spanish).Retrieved15 October2021.
  13. ^"Tigre le ganó la final de la Primera Nacional a Barracas Central y ascendió a Primera – TyC Sports".tycsports.com.Retrieved8 January2022.
  14. ^"Deportivo Maipú: Juan Manuel Sara firmó su vínculo como técnico del Cruzado | Vía Mendoza".Vía País(in Spanish).Retrieved8 January2022.
  15. ^"FERRO: Se confirmó oficialmente la llegada de Sara a Ferro".soloascenso.com.ar(in Spanish).Retrieved8 December2022.
  16. ^"It's My Dundee – Sara's Song".Joe Covenant Lamb.
  17. ^En Una Baldosa Profile

External links[edit]

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