Argentine former footballer and manager
Julio Daniel Asad (Arabic: خوليو أسد; born 7 June 1953) is an Argentine former football player and manager. He played as a midfielder, and participated with Argentina in the 1975 Copa América.
Asad was nicknamed "El Turco" due to his Syrian and Lebanese ethnicity.[2] In Argentina, Arabs were mistakenly called Turks, since they came to Argentina with Ottoman Turkish documents in the 1900s.[3] After he retired from professional football, he became a manager. He has coached clubs in Argentina, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, and El Salvador.
He is the uncle of Omar Asad, who was also a successful player for Vélez in the 1990s.[4]
Honours
Manager
Club Deportivo Riestra
- Champion: 1985
Defensores de Belgrano
- Champions: 1991–92
Club Leandro N. Alem
- Champions: Clausura 1996
Centro Deportivo Olmedo
- Champions: 2000
Club Deportivo Cuenca
- Champions: 2004
Al-Nassr
- Federation Cup: 2007
Personal
- Coach Of The Year in Ecuador: 2000, 2001
- Coach Of The Year in Saudi Arabia: 2003
References
- ^ As "sports director"
- ^ Recopilaron casi 200 años de los sirio libaneses en Argentina Archived 2014-09-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Recopilaron casi 200 años de los sirio libaneses en Argentina Archived 2014-09-08 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ 100 x 100 El Turco Asad", Diego Borinsky, El Gráfico, número 4398, maio de 2010, pp. 24-35
External links
- Julio Asad at BDFA (in Spanish)
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