In thisSpanish name, the first or paternal surname is Oblitas and the second or maternal family name is Saba.
Juan Carlos Oblitas Saba (16 February 1951 inMollendo,Arequipa) is a retiredPeruvianfootballer, who is a football manager, who isnicknamedEl Ciego ("The Blind One"). Oblitas was an extraordinary outside left wing forward at the national team level for Peru back in the 1970s and 1980s.
Juan Carlos Oblitas, elCiego, was born in Mollendo, Arequipa on 16 February 1951.He is married to Virginia Villamarin and has three children (Gisella, Juan Fernando, and Vanessa). He has six grandchildren. His son Juan Fernando has three daughters: Paula, Ariana and Andrea.
After Manuel Burga resigned following a long period of criticism, the new FPF leadership ofEdwin Oviedo appointed him as technical director for the national team. There, in January 2017, he helped the new FPF leadership to design the "Minors Plan" project, with the aim to improve the youth football of Peru which has been weaker than most of other CONMEBOL nations, in order to rebuild and reform football development in Peru for the future.[1] He also aimed to make Peru one of major youth football power in South America, hoping to achieve more frequent qualification to theFIFA U-17 andFIFA U-20 World Cups. He also helped designing the Centennial Plan 2022, with its goal is to achieve more World Cup qualification successes, and making the Peruvian youth league one of South America's strongest, as well as the construction of new FPF Academy, the Center of National Teams. ->[2]
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