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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Fernando Castro Lozada | ||
| Date of birth | (1949-02-11)11 February 1949 (age 76) | ||
| Place of birth | Manizales,Caldas,Colombia | ||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Position | Defender | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | América de Cali | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1967–1974 | Once Caldas | ||
| 1975–1976 | Deportes Quindío | ||
| 1977–1981 | Deportivo Cali | ||
| 1982 | Santa Fe | ||
| 1983–1984 | Once Caldas | ||
| International career | |||
| 1979–1981 | Colombia | 15 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1987 | Deportes Quindío | ||
| 1989 | Deportes Quindío | ||
| 1991 | Cúcuta Deportivo | ||
| 1993–1994 | Envigado | ||
| 1995–1996 | Deportivo Cali | ||
| 1998 | Independiente Medellín | ||
| 1999–2001 | Santa Fe | ||
| 2002 | Deportivo Cali | ||
| 2002–2003 | América de Cali | ||
| 2005 | Millonarios | ||
| 2007 | Once Caldas | ||
| 2008 | Santa Fe | ||
| 2010–2012 | Deportes Quindío | ||
| 2014 | Atlético Huila | ||
| 2015–2016 | Deportivo Cali | ||
| 2017 | Atlético Bucaramanga | ||
| 2018–2019 | América de Cali | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Fernando "Pecoso" Castro Lozada (born 11 February 1949) is a Colombianfootball manager and former player. He has won twoPrimera A titles as a manager, most recently in 2015 withDeportivo Cali.[1] He most recently managedAmérica de Cali in theColombianCategoría Primera A.
Castro obtained his first win working as thetechnical director ofDeportivo Cali, in the 1995/96 season; with them he broke a bad series of 22 years without wins for the team "Azucarero".
Later, "El Pecoso" (Freckle Face) stood out in his work for another big name of Colombian football,Independiente Santa Fe, the club that he directed from 1999 to 2001. In the 2000 season, he took the team to the championship finals, contending the title against theAmérica de Cali (eventual champions),Junior of Barranquilla and Sports Tolima.
Castro also directed América de Cali]] from 2002 to 2003. This was a team with which he had a big campaign in the2003 Copa Libertadores, leading the "Escarlata" to the semi-finals, in which the team was knocked out by theBoca Juniors ofArgentina (eventually the champions).
In his second stage as the head of "Los Cardenales", in spite of having an exceptional performance in theTournament Opening, serious differences with the surroundings of the club motivated his exit in 2008. He was replaced by the coachHernán Darío Gómez.
In the second semester of 2010 he signed a contract with theDeportes Quindío team, and in spite of his economic limitations and staff to run an acceptable campaign, he brought the team to the quadrangular semi-finals of the tournament of that year. After the 2011 and 2012 seasons, he was not able to make any remarkable achievements, and he was driven to his dismissal due to economic problems, constant payroll cuts, and differences with the board of directors and some players.
Five days into the 2014 season's closing tournament, Castro took control of theAtlético Huila, replacing the technical directorVirgilio Puerto, who had been fired from the team due to bad results. Under his control for the rest of the competition,Atlético Huila recorded six victories, five ties and one defeat, achieving a total of 23 points in front of the four teams before they changed technical directors, which put them in the quadrangular tournament semi-finals. During the quadrangular semi-finals, against the leader of the firstIndependiente Santa Fe phase and the current championsAtlético Nacional, Castro'sAtlético Huila gained 11 points. They had the possibility to compete in the finals but five minutes before the end of the last game, theIndependiente Santa Fe were able to tie the game and surpass them in points only for having occupied a higher position in the first phase of the tournament.
After having finalized his commitments withAtlético Huila, he terminated his agreement with the club in December 2014 so he could be hired for the 2015 season byDeportivo Cali, the team that had returned like a helmsman after 12 years. His return to the Deportivo Cali was marked by a brief controversy due to contractual disputes with his old club, since thehuilense team did not arrive at an agreement with theDeportivo Cali to cease the agreement that Castro had until June 2015. Due to all this, he was banished from the field at the start of the league game, and had to direct from the grandstand until the legal lawsuit was resolved. After remaining in third place in the confrontation phase between all the teams of the 2015 tournament opening, theDeportivo Cali, directed by Castro, moved to the second phase of the competition, where they were able to surpassAtlético Nacional, resulting in their instant elimination in the quarter-finals. Playing againstMillonarios in the semi-final resulted in facingDeportivo Independiente Medellín for the title, where they would win and achieve the ninth title for Deportivo Cali and the second title in his professional career.
The trainer from Manizales has also headed to the teamsCúcuta Deportivo,Envigado FC, Independent Medellín,Millonarios andOnce Caldas, but he has not had as much success with these groups.
With theColombia national team he played 15 international games. He played 7 friendly games, 4 games in theAmerica Cup 1979 and 4 eliminatory games in 1981.
Source:[citation needed]
| Club | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Once Caldas |  Colombia | 1967–1974 |
| Deportes Quindío | Colombia | 1975–1976 |
| Deportivo Cali | Colombia | 1977–1981 |
| Santa Fe | Colombia | 1982 |
| Once Caldas | Colombia | 1983–1984 |
| Club[2] | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Deportes Quindío | Colombia | 1987 |
| Deportes Quindío | Colombia | 1989 |
| Cúcuta Deportivo | Colombia | 1991 |
| Envigado | Colombia | 1993–1994 |
| Deportivo Cali | Colombia | 1995–1996 |
| Independiente Medellín | Colombia | 1998 |
| Santa Fe | Colombia | 1999–2001 |
| Deportivo Cali | Colombia | 2002 |
| América de Cali | Colombia | 2002–2003 |
| Millonarios | Colombia | 2005 |
| Once Caldas | Colombia | 2007 |
| Santa Fe | Colombia | 2008 |
| Deportes Quindío | Colombia | 2010–2012 |
| Atlético Huila | Colombia | 2014 |
| Deportivo Cali | Colombia | 2015–2016 |
| Atlético Bucaramanga | Colombia | 2017 |
| América de Cali | Colombia | 2018 - currently |
