 Maturana in October 2017. | |||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1949-02-15)February 15, 1949 (age 76) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Quibdó, Colombia | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Defender | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Atletico Nacional (sporting director) | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1970–1980 | Atlético Nacional | 359 | (15) | ||||||||||||||
| 1981 | Atlético Bucaramanga | 22 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1982 | Deportes Tolima | 32 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 413 | (15) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1981 | Colombia | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1986 | Once Caldas | ||||||||||||||||
| 1987–1990 | Atlético Nacional | ||||||||||||||||
| 1987–1990 | Colombia | ||||||||||||||||
| 1990–1991 | Real Valladolid | ||||||||||||||||
| 1992–1993 | América de Cali | ||||||||||||||||
| 1993–1994 | Colombia | ||||||||||||||||
| 1994 | Atlético Madrid | ||||||||||||||||
| 1995–1997 | Ecuador | ||||||||||||||||
| 1998 | Millonarios | ||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Costa Rica | ||||||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | Peru | ||||||||||||||||
| 2001 | Colombia | ||||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Al-Hilal | ||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Colombia | ||||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Colón de Santa Fe | ||||||||||||||||
| 2007 | Gimnasia La Plata | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Trinidad and Tobago | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Al Nassr | ||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Once Caldas | ||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Venezuela (assistant) | ||||||||||||||||
| 2019 | Royal Pari | ||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Independiente Medellín | ||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Atlético Nacional | ||||||||||||||||
| 2021– | Atletico Nacional (sporting director) | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Francisco Antonio Maturana García, also known asPacho Maturana (born February 15, 1949) is a Colombian ex-football player and football manager. Under his management,Atletico Nacional was the first team of the nation to win theCopa Libertadores in 1989, and theColombia national football team to win Colombia's first ever International title: theCopa America in 2001.
He is currently a member of theFIFA Football Committee.[1]
Born inQuibdó,Chocó, Francisco Maturana moved with his family at an early age to the city ofMedellín. Here he played professional football while attending theUniversity of Antioquia, where he later obtained a degree in dentistry. He began his professional career in 1970 atAtlético Nacional, where he became a starting defender until 1980. During his time atAtlético Nacional he won two Colombian League Championships in 1973 and 1976. In 1981, he transferred toAtlético Bucaramanga and also played 6 matches with the Colombia National Team during the qualifying matches for the 1982 World Cup. In 1982, he played his last year withDeportes Tolima until he retired at the end of the season.
Motivated by Uruguayans Aníbal Ruíz and Luis Cubilla, he started managing the Colombian teamOnce Caldas in 1986. The following year, the Colombian Football Federation hired him to manage the national team's youth squad and was quickly promoted to manage the Senior Squad to compete in the 1987Copa América, where they reached third place by beating the host Argentina. During this time, he was also hired to manage his former team,Atlético Nacional. Then, in 1989, he had his most successful year in his career. He ledAtlético Nacional, composed of many Colombian legends, to win theCopa Libertadores for the first time for any Colombian club. UsingAtlético Nacional players as a base for the National Team, he qualified the team for the 1990 World Cup after 28 years of absence. In December, he lost theIntercontinental Cup toAC Milan at the last minute of overtime. An upset to what would have been the perfect season. The following year he led Colombia to its best performance in World Cup competition until 2014 by reaching the second round and losing to Cameroon.
After the World Cup, he was hired as coach of Spain'sReal Valladolid. He was rumored to be the nextReal Madrid coach for the 1991–92 season. In 1993, he was voted as the South American coach of the year by El Pais and he was ranked third in Spanish Newspaper Marca's list of the world's greatest managers.
He returned to Colombia in 1992. and got his teamAmérica de Cali champion of Colombia. In 1993, he got Colombia qualified for a second time in a row to a World Cup, with a historic triumph over Argentina in Buenos Aires by 5–0. That score made Colombia a surprising favorite for the 1994 World Cup, but the performance there was disappointing, as the team was eliminated in the first round, being defeated by United States and Romania, although it was understood that the team's make-up had been heavily influenced by rampant threats from the cartel groups at the time.
He later had a brief stint as coach ofAtlético Madrid and in 1995 he was hired as the trainer of Ecuador National Football Team. After failing to get Ecuador qualified for the1998 FIFA World Cup, he returned to Colombia to coachMillonarios.
In 1999, he briefly coached Costa Rica, and in 2000 he also coached Peru for a few months.He would later return to coach Colombia for the 2001 Copa América, winning it for the first time. His latest jobs as a coach would include Saudi Arabian sideAl-Hilal, where he won the domestic league and the Asian Champions League and a new stint for Colombia and Argentina'sColón de Santa Fe.
He worked forFIFA as a technical adviser where he has held various coaching seminars around the world with the likes ofFabio Capello andCesar Menotti.
In April 2007 Maturana accepted an offer fromArgentineClub de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata. He directed his first game on April 22, 2007, the derby againstEstudiantes de La Plata. In August 2007 Maturana ended his relationship withClub de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata
As of February 1 he took up the position of head coach of Trinidad and Tobago's National Team.[2]His first game in charge was against Guadeloupe on February 6 at the Queens Park Oval in Trinidad. However, on April 8, 2009, Maturana was sacked as manager of Trinidad and Tobago.[citation needed]
In June 2019, he was appointed as a technical advisor for the national team ofVenezuela in the2019 Copa América.[3]
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