Jorge Fossati

Jorge Fossati
	Fossati in 2016
Personal information
Full name	Jorge Daniel Fossati Lurachi
Date of birth	22 November 1952 (age 71)
Place of birth	Montevideo, Uruguay
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Peru (head coach)
Senior career*
Years	Team
1970–1971	Rampla Juniors
1972	Central Español
1973–1980	Peñarol
1980–1981	Independiente
1982	Millonarios
1982–1983	Olimpia
1983–1985	Green Cross Temuco
1985–1987	Rosario Central
1987–1988	Mandiyú de Corrientes
1988–1989	Avaí
1989–1990	Coritiba
International career
1975–1985	Uruguay
Managerial career
1993–1995	River Plate Montevideo
1996	Peñarol
1997	Cerro Porteño
1998–2001	Danubio
2001–2002	Colón de Santa Fe
2002–2003	Danubio
2003–2004	LDU Quito
2004–2006	Uruguay
2006–2007	Al-Sadd
2007–2008	Qatar
2009	LDU Quito
2009–2010	Internacional
2010	Al-Shabab
2010–2012	Al-Sadd
2012–2013	Cerro Porteño
2013	Al-Ain
2014–2015	Peñarol
2015–2016	Al Rayyan
2016–2017	Qatar
2019	Al-Ahli
2019–2021	River Plate Montevideo
2021–2022	Danubio
2023	Universitario de Deportes
2023–	Peru
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jorge Daniel Fossati Lurachi (born 22 November 1952 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan football manager and former player who played as a goalkeeper. He is the current manager of the Peru national team.

Club career

Fossati played mainly in Peñarol, where he helped the club win five league titles. He also had spells in Argentina with Independiente and Rosario Central, in Colombia with Millonarios, in Paraguay with Olimpia, in Chile with Green Cross Temuco (currently Deportes Temuco) and in Brazil with Coritiba.

He played for Mandiyú de Corrientes, of Argentina in 1987 and in 1988, and for Brazilian club Avaí in 1989.^[1]

Managerial career

Having played as a goalkeeper during his footballing tenure, Fossati states that he had the opportunity to view matches through the perspective of a spectator and the ability to interpret the plays. He began coaching his teammates as a goalkeeper, under the supervision of the coach. As Fossati aged, he started to write analyses of the games and coaches, noting which facets he would have adjusted.^[2]

After retiring as a player, he decided to take up management. In the beginning, Fossati had spells in charge of River Plate Montevideo, Peñarol (where he won a league title) and Danubio F.C. in Uruguay. He also had spells as manager of Colón de Santa Fe in Argentina, Cerro Porteño in Paraguay and LDU Quito in Ecuador.

Fossati became manager of the Uruguay national team in 2004,^[3] signing at a time in which the team was about to miss qualifying to the 2006 World Cup. He managed to take Uruguay out of the lower places in the qualifying table and into the inter-confederation play-off spot. Despite his and the players' efforts, Uruguay lost the play-off against Australia on penalties. Fossati was then replaced as manager of Uruguay by Óscar Tabárez.

He next coached Al-Sadd in Qatar and, after winning all four domestic titles with them, was unveiled as the new Qatari national team manager in 2007.^[4] In late 2008, it was announced that Fossati would undergo surgery. Subsequently, the Qatar FA ended their cooperation with him, who supposedly needed too long to recover from surgery.

In 2009, he signed with LDU Quito from Ecuador to manage the team for the second time, replacing Edgardo Bauza. Fossati helped LDU Quito win the Recopa Sudamericana 2009 matches against Sport Club Internacional de Porto Alegre. LDU Quito won both games of the Recopa 1–0 and 3–0, respectively. This gave LDU Quito their second international title. In December 2009, Fossati and LDU won the Copa Sudamericana after defeating Fluminense 5–4 on aggregate in the finals.

After Internacional and Mário Sergio parted ways, as per their previous agreement, the Brazilian club reached a deal with Fossati. On 13 December 2009, he joined Internacional for one year. Following negative results, he was fired on 28 May 2010. Fossati left Internacional in the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores after defeating reigning champions Estudiantes de La Plata in the quarter-finals; Internacional would go on to win the Libertadores.

After that, he was named as head coach of Al-Shabab and nearly reached that season's AFC Champions League final with the team. Fossati was sacked by Al-Shabab in December 2010, but returned for another crack at the continental title, after being put in charge of Al-Sadd for a second time between 2010 and 2012, during which he won the 2011 AFC Champions League and reached the semi-finals of the 2011 FIFA Club World Cup. Fossati left Al-Sadd on 19 May 2012 and joined Club Cerro Porteño.

On 26 July 2013, he signed a two years contract with United Arab Emirates champions Al Ain to replace Cosmin Olăroiu.

He became coach of the Qatar national football team in 2016. Like Fossati, all of the football management of 'The Maroons' were Uruguayan.

In June 2019, the River Plate Athletic Club of Uruguay asked for help, and that the club take command, in order to resurface it, in four months it led the club to a significant improvement in football.

In March 2023, he joined Club Universitario de Deportes, after the departure of Carlos Compagnucci. His contract would end in December 2023 amid rumours of Fossati signing over to the Peru national football team.^[5] On 27 December, 2023, Peru would officialize the signing of Fossati as head coach.^[6]

Managerial statistics

As of match played 19 November 2024

Managerial record by team and tenure
Team	From	To	Record
Team	From	To	P	W	D	L	Win %
Al-Sadd	30 June 2006	25 May 2007	44	25	9	10	056.82
Al-Shabab	30 June 2010	30 December 2011	12	7	4	1	058.33
Peru	28 December 2023	Present	13	4	4	5	030.77
Total			69	36	17	16	052.17

Honours

Player

Club

Peñarol

Uruguayan Primera División: 1973, 1974, 1975, 1978, 1979

Olimpia

Paraguayan Primera División: 1983

Rosario Central

Argentine Primera División: 1986–87

Avaí

Campeonato Catarinense: 1988

Manager

Club

Peñarol

Uruguayan Primera División: 1996

LDU Quito

Al-Sadd

Cerro Porteño

Paraguayan Primera División: 2012

Al-Rayyan

Qatar Stars League: 2015–16

Universitario de Deportes

Peruvian Primera División: 2023

International

Uruguay

Copa América third place: 2004

References

^ "El debut de Jorge Fossati" (in Spanish). Ten Field Digital. 1 June 2004. Retrieved 27 August 2008. ^{[dead link‍]}
^ "In my past I find the recognition I'm looking for". Qatar Stars League. 19 February 2012. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012.
^ "BBC Football". 28 March 2005. Archived from the original on 19 May 2006. Retrieved 27 March 2008.
^ "FIFA.com - Fossati out to fulfil Qatari dreams". 29 February 2008. Archived from the original on 29 February 2008. Retrieved 10 December 2021.
^ "A la selección: Universitario oficializó la salida de Jorge Fossati". Trome (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 December 2023.
^ "Jorge Fossati: Conmebol le da la bienvenida como técnico de la selección peruana". Andina (in Spanish). 28 December 2023. Retrieved 28 December 2023.

[career-1] "El debut de Jorge Fossati" (in Spanish). Ten Field Digital. 1 June 2004. Retrieved 27 August 2008. ^{[dead link‍]}

[2] "In my past I find the recognition I'm looking for". Qatar Stars League. 19 February 2012. Archived from the original on 4 March 2012.

[3] "BBC Football". 28 March 2005. Archived from the original on 19 May 2006. Retrieved 27 March 2008.

[4] "FIFA.com - Fossati out to fulfil Qatari dreams". 29 February 2008. Archived from the original on 29 February 2008. Retrieved 10 December 2021.

[5] "A la selección: Universitario oficializó la salida de Jorge Fossati". Trome (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 December 2023.

[6] "Jorge Fossati: Conmebol le da la bienvenida como técnico de la selección peruana". Andina (in Spanish). 28 December 2023. Retrieved 28 December 2023.

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