DANIEL ALBERTO PASSARELLA
Date of Birth: May
25th 1953
Place of Birth: Chacabuco,
Province of Buenos Aires, Argentina
Titles won with River Plate:
As a Player:
* Metropolitan 1975
* National 1975
* Metropolitan 1977
* Metropolitan 1979
* National 1979
* Metropolitan 1980
* National 1981
As a Coach:
* Championship 1989/90
* Opening 1991
* Opening 1993
The "Great Captain" started in the team Argentino
de
Chacabuco. In 1973 he went to Sarmiento de
Junín, and
in 1974 he reached River Plate. He was considered
one
of the greatest defenders of all times in
the history of
the Argentinian football due to his strong
personality
and to his hability to solve difficult situations
in
the millionaire's field. Those skills gave
him the
nickname of "Great Captain", which he received
because of his temper inside the stadiums.
He left
River Plate in 1981 and went to the Italian
team
Fiorentina, and later on to the Interazionale
de
Milan. He came back to River in 1988, and
retired
wearing the millionaire's uniform the following
year, in 1989.
He is the maximun scorer among the defenders
in the history
of the Argentinian football, altogether he
scored 99 goals,
which make him the nineth maximun scorer in
the history of
River Plate along with Carlos Manuel Morete.
Passarella was
the captain of the Argentinian national team
which won the
World Cup in 1978, and was part of the teams
which played
the World Cups of Spain '82 and México
'86 (which Argentina
also won, but he didn't play in any of the
games).
(Picture: Américo Rubén Gallego
and Daniel Alberto Passarella)
Besides his remarkable career as a football
player, Daniel
Alberto Passarella has a lot of experience
as the team's
coach, he was champion with River Plate in
three ocasions.
Being a coach who expected discipline and
good behaviour
from his players, Daniel earned a new nickname,
the "Kaiser".
His reputation grew so much that he became
the Argentinian
national team's manager, which he led through
the Olympic
Games in 1996 (the team was runner-up that
time), the
America Cup in 1997, and the World Cup of
France '98.
He is nowadays leading the Uruguayan national
team which
he hopes to take to the World Cup of Corea/Japan
2002.
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