 Aldabe on the cover ofEl Gráfico in July 1942 | |||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||
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| Date of birth | January 1, 1919 (1919-01) | ||||||||||
| Date of death | October 16, 1998 (1998-10-17) (aged 79) | ||||||||||
| Position(s) | Defender | ||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||
| 1939–1944 | Platense | 119 | |||||||||
| 1941 | →Independiente (loan) | ||||||||||
| 1945–1946 | Quilmes AC | 75 | (1) | ||||||||
| 1949 | CD Los Millonarios | ||||||||||
| 1950–1951 | Ceclista de Peru | ||||||||||
| 1952 | Santa Fe CD | ||||||||||
| 1953 | Universidad | ||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||
| 1949 | CD Los Millonarios | ||||||||||
| 1953–1954 | Quilmes AC | ||||||||||
| 1956 | CD Universidad Católica | ||||||||||
| 1957–1958 | Everton de Viña del Mar | ||||||||||
| 1960 | CA Talleres | ||||||||||
| 1960–1961 | Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata | ||||||||||
| 1961 | Argentinos Juniors | ||||||||||
| 1962 | Club Almagro | ||||||||||
| 1963–1964 | Estudiantes de La Plata | ||||||||||
| 1965 | CA Excursionistas | ||||||||||
| 1966 | Ferro Carril Oeste | ||||||||||
| 1968 | CA Talleres | ||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||
Carlos Roberto Aldabe (January 1, 1919 – October 16, 1998) was an Argentineassociation football player and coach. He is mostly known for leading the then prominently staffedColombian clubCD Los Millonarios asplayer-manager to their first championship.[1]
As player Aldabe was from 1939 to 1944 a defender withCA Platense in theArgentine first division and from 1945 to 1946 withQuilmes AC in the second divisionPrimera B. Both clubs are located in theProvince of Buenos Aires.
He joinedCD Los Millonarios in the Colombian capitalBogotá where he was player-manager in 1949. After the professionalisation of the Colombian football in the previous season the Argentine starEl MaestroAdolfo Pedernera fromCA River Plate inBuenos Aires joined the club in June 1949. Two months later he was followed byNéstor Rossi andAlfredo Di Stéfano from the same club. The acquisition of top stars from Argentina was aided by player strikes in Argentina in the years 1947 and 1948 which disrupted regular play and Colombia accepting players that were not formally released from there previous clubs. In practical terms this meant that Millonarios and the other Colombian clubs did not have to pay any transfer fees, which in turn led to a suspension of the country fromFIFA-membership.
Still in 1949 CD Los Millonarios won its first Colombian championship title. In the following year Adolfo Pedernera took on the responsibilities as player-manager – a position in which he would lead the side, then known asBallet Azul, the "Blue Ballet" until 1954 to further titles. Aldabe initially continued playing for Millonarios, but later in the year moved on to Peru where he joinedCiclista Lima, a club which has just rejoined the first division after relegation two years earlier. Star of the side in this phase was the strikerJuan Emilio Salinas. From mid-1952 he played a few more matches in Colombia forSanta Fe CD and in the following year forUniversidad from Bogotá.
After his return to Argentina he coached there between 1953 and 1968 several professional clubs, albeit none of the top sides. After an engagement with second division sideQuilmes AC between 1953 and 1954 he worked inChile. In 1956 he coachedCD Universidad Católica in the capitalSantiago, where the legendary keeperSergio Livingstone stood in the goal mouth. In the previous season Universidad happened to be relegated as the incumbent champions, but by the end of 1956 managed to return to the top flight. Between 1957 and 1958 he coachedEverton de Viña del Mar in the north of the country.
Between 1960 and 1968 he held six more relatively short-term engagements with Argentine first and second division clubs – without adding to his trophy tally.
