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José Pekerman
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Argentine association football player and manager
Key facts
- 2009
- Tigres UANL
- Full name
- José Néstor Pékerman Krimen
- Date of birth
- ( 1949-09-03 ) 3 September 1949 (age 76)
- Place of birth
- Villa Domínguez , Argentina
- Height
- 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
- Position
- Midfielder
- Years
- Team
- 1970 1974
- Argentinos Juniors
- 1974 1977
- Independiente Medellín
- 1981 1982
- Chacarita Juniors (youth)
- 1982 1992
- Argentinos Juniors (youth)
- 1992 1994
- Colo-Colo (youth)
- 1994 2001
- Argentina U20
- 2004 2006
- Argentina
- 2007 2008
- Toluca
- 2012 2018
- Colombia
- 2021 2023
- Venezuela
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Argentina
- Place of birth
- Villa Domínguez
- Occupation
- association football coach
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Deportivo Independiente Medellín
- Position played
- midfielder
- Mass
- 74
- Image
- José Pekerman Deportivo Toluca 2007.jpg
- Height
- 176
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- date of birth
- 1949-09-03
- Commons category
- José Néstor Pékerman
- coach of sports team
- Venezuela men's national football team
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Encyclopedic overview
José Néstor Pékerman Krimen ( Spanish pronunciation: [xoˈse ˈpekerman]; born 3 September 1949) is an Argentine-Colombian professional football coach. His last team managed was the Venezuela national team. As a youth level coach for Argentina, he won the FIFA World Youth Championship three times, and the U20 South American Youth Championship twice. He coached the Argentina national football team in the 2006 FIFA World Cup and became coach of the Colombia national team in 2012. He subsequently managed the Colombia national team during the 2014 and 2018 FIFA World Cups where he led the team to their best result, the quarterfinals, in 2014, their first World Cup qualification after 16 years of absence.
Player career
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