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.jpg) Hugo de León in 2019 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Hugo Eduardo de León Rodríguez | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1958-02-27)27 February 1958 (age 67) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Rivera, Uruguay | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft1+1⁄2 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Defender | |||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1977–1980 | Nacional | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1981–1984 | Grêmio | 83 | (2) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1984–1985 | Corinthians | 24 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1986–1987 | Santos | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1987–1988 | Logroñés | 16 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1988–1989 | Nacional | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1989–1990 | River Plate | 12 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1991 | Botafogo | 12 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1991–1992 | Toshiba SC | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1992–1993 | Nacional | |||||||||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1979–1990 | Uruguay | 48 | (0) | |||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1996 | Ituano | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1997 | Fluminense | |||||||||||||||||||
| 1998–2001 | Nacional | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2003 | Monterrey | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Nacional | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Monterrey | |||||||||||||||||||
| 2005 | Grêmio | |||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||||||||
Hugo Eduardo de León Rodríguez (born 27 February 1958) is a Uruguayanfootball coach and former player, who played as adefender.
De León joinedNacional in 1977. With Nacional, he won two Uruguayan league titles, in 1977 and 1980, and theCopa Libertadores in1980. In 1981, he left Nacional to play forGremio missing the final game of the1980 Intercontinental Cup which Nacional would subsequently win. With Gremio he won theCopa Libertadores and theIntercontinental Cup in 1983. After spells in Brazil and Spain he returned to Nacional in 1988, to win theCopa Libertadores andIntercontinental Cup in that year, and theCopa Interamericana andRecopa Sudamericana in 1989. At the end of the year, he left Nacional to play forRiver Plate ofArgentina, where he won the 1989/1990 league title. He returned to Nacional in 1992 and won his third Uruguayan league title as a player. He retired in 1993.
The 187 cm defender wascapped 48 times forUruguay between July 1979 and June 1990, including four games at the1990 World Cup. De León helped the Uruguay national team win the1980 Mundialito, a tournament celebrating the 50th anniversary of the first World Cup. De Leon also led Uruguay to a 2nd place finish at the 1989 Copa America hosted in Brazil.
As a coach, De León was in charge of several clubs in Uruguay, Brazil and México, including Nacional, Gremio andMonterrey. As coach of Nacional, they won the Uruguayan league titles of 1998, 2000 and 2001.
Because of a conflict with the Uruguayan coaches' association, who does not validate the coach course he took in Brazil, De León has not worked in Uruguay since 2004.
De León was a candidate for Vice President of Uruguay, alongsidePedro Bordaberry, in the2009 Uruguayan general election.[1][2]
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