Juan Manuel Sara (born 13 October 1976) is an Argentine football manager and former player who manages Primera Nacional club Deportivo Maipú. He also holds Italian nationality.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Juan Manuel Sara[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 13 October 1976 | ||
| Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Deportivo Maipú (manager) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Almirante Brown | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1993–1997 | Almirante Brown | 30 | (3) |
| 1997–1998 | Nueva Chicago | 15 | (4) |
| 1998–1999 | FC Hradec Králové | 7 | (0) |
| 1999–2000 | Cerro Porteño | 34 | (14) |
| 2000–2003 | Dundee | 88 | (28) |
| 2003 | → Coventry City (loan) | 3 | (1) |
| 2004 | Reggiana | 2 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | Shelbourne | 0 | (0) |
| 2005 | Huracán | 2 | (0) |
| 2006 | Vaduz | 30 | (21) |
| 2007 | Gallipoli | 2 | (0) |
| 2007 | Lucena | 6 | (2) |
| 2008 | Locarno | 24 | (17) |
| 2009 | Cerro Porteño | 7 | (1) |
| 2010 | → River Plate Puerto Rico (loan) | 2 | (4) |
| 2010–2011 | Lobos de la BUAP | 32 | (22) |
| 2011–2012 | Correcaminos UAT | 27 | (11) |
| 2012–2013 | Ferro Carril Oeste | 6 | (2) |
| Total | 317 | (130) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2015–2016 | Club Atlético Ituzaingó (assistant) | ||
| 2016–2017 | Cañuelas (assistant) | ||
| 2018 | Comunicaciones (assistant) | ||
| 2018 | Midland (assistant) | ||
| 2018–2020 | Estudiantes BA (assistant) | ||
| 2020 | Godoy Cruz (assistant) | ||
| 2021 | Tigre (assistant) | ||
| 2021–2022 | Deportivo Maipú | ||
| 2022–2023 | Ferro Carril Oeste | ||
| 2023 | Estudiantes BA | ||
| 2023 | Tigre | ||
| 2024– | Deportivo Maipú | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Playing career
editSara was born in Buenos Aires. He played for Argentine side Almirante Brown and Nueva Chicago, Czech side Hradec Králové, Paraguayan side Cerro Porteño before move to Scotland.
Sara moved to Scottish side Dundee in 2000. Sara played 88 league matches during his three and a half years with the Dark Blues but left in November 2003 due to Dundee's threat of administration. He previously had a short loan spell with Coventry City,[2] where he scored once against Nottingham Forest.[3]
Sara moved on to Reggiana in December 2003.[4] Sara played the rest of that season before joining Irish side Shelbourne in August 2004,[5] where he played for a year. In July 2005, Sara moved back to his homeland with Huracán but stayed for only a few months, joining Liechtensteiner side Vaduz in January 2006. After a year with them, Sara moved to Italy with Gallipoli, again spending only a few months before his departure in June 2007. Sara joined Lucena shortly afterwards, then returned to Challenge League for Locarno. On 20 January 2009 joined to Cerro Porteño.[6][7] In March 2010, he was loaned to River Plate Puerto Rico of the Puerto Rico Soccer League. He officially retired from playing in 2014.
Coaching career
editSara entered coaching in 2015 with Club Atlético Ituzaingó under manager Diego Martínez, before leaving the following year with Martínez and his coaching team to Cañuelas.[8][9] In 2018, Sara again followed Martínez to Estudiantes de Buenos Aires as assistant coach.[10] He would later follow Martínez in roles at Godoy Cruz in 2020 and Club Atlético Tigre in 2021.[11][12] While with El Matador, Sara helped the club win the 2021 Primera Nacional and achieve promotion to the Argentine Primera División.[13] In December 2021, Sara would leave Martínez and was named manager of Primera Nacional side Deportivo Maipú.[14] At the end of the season, Sara became manager of his final club as a player and fellow Primera Nacional side Ferro Carril Oeste.[15]
Miscellany
editIn 2001 Sara attended a recording session to provide a reading of The Serenity Prayer which was used as a basis for the track Sara's Song (I Thank God) as part of the album It's My Dundee[16] to provide funds for the Dundee F.C. youth development fund.
Personal life
editSara is a devout Christian.[17]
References
edit- ^ "Juan Sara". Barry Hugman's Footballers. Retrieved 25 March 2017.
- ^ "Coventry sign Sara". BBC Sport website. 10 January 2003.
- ^ "Nottm Forest 1–1 Coventry". BBC. 13 February 2003. Retrieved 28 March 2010.
- ^ "Sad Georgi heads home". Evening Telegraph. 24 December 2003. Archived from the original on 20 November 2008.
- ^ "Shels suffer UEFA Cup blow". BBC Sport website. 15 September 2004.
- ^ "Schweizerischer Fussballverband – SFV".
- ^ "El Ciclón con dos postulantes a ocupar el puesto de "9" y "Cachi" mete presión". Cerro Porteño. 29 January 2009. Retrieved 16 February 2009.
- ^ Sara, Juan (23 November 2015). "@juanmanuelsara on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ^ Sara, Juan (1 July 2016). "@juanmanuelsara on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ^ Sara, Juan (24 July 2018). "@juanmanuelsara on Twitter". Twitter. Retrieved 12 May 2020.
- ^ "Godoy Cruz presentó a Diego Martínez, su nuevo DT" [Godoy Cruz presented Diego Martínez, their new manager] (in Spanish). TyC Sports. 10 August 2020. Retrieved 20 December 2020.
- ^ Noticias, I. A. M. (12 January 2021). "Diego Martínez asumió en Tigre". IAM Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved 15 October 2021.
- ^ "Tigre le ganó la final de la Primera Nacional a Barracas Central y ascendió a Primera – TyC Sports". tycsports.com. 23 November 2021. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- ^ "Deportivo Maipú: Juan Manuel Sara firmó su vínculo como técnico del Cruzado | Vía Mendoza". Vía País (in Spanish). 7 December 2021. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
- ^ "FERRO: Se confirmó oficialmente la llegada de Sara a Ferro". soloascenso.com.ar (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 December 2022.
- ^ "It's My Dundee – Sara's Song". Joe Covenant Lamb.
- ^ En Una Baldosa Profile
External links
edit- Juan Sara at WorldFootball.net
- Juan Sara at BDFA (in Spanish)
- Juan Sara at Football.ch at the Wayback Machine (archived 25 May 2011)
- Juan Sara at Soccerbase
