Julio Cesar "El Pocho" Cortes (born March 29, 1941) is an Uruguayan football coach and former midfielder who participated in three World Cups with the Uruguayan national team.
At the club level, Cortes was most successful during the time he played for Uruguayan club Penarol, winning two league titles and the Copa Libertadores and the Intercontinental Cup in 1966.
He has spent the majority of his coaching career in Central America, managing several clubs, and having two tenures as coach of the Guatemala national team, which he led to win the 2001 UNCAF Nations Cup tournament.
Playing career
Cortes began his career with Sud America, and in 1962 he joined C.A. Cerro. He left the club in 1965 to play in Argentina for Rosario Central.Sources: , , .
Penarol and international success
After one season with Rosario, Cortes returned to Uruguay to join Penarol in 1966, and became part of a first team that included players like Pedro Rocha, Alberto Spencer, Julio Cesar Abbadie, and Omar Caetano. The team went on to win the Copa Libertadores in 1966, with Cortes scoring a decisive goal against arch-rivals Nacional in the semifinal playoff on April 23, 1966, which allowed the team to reach the final where they defeated Argentine's River Plate after three matches, obtaining their third Copa Libertadores.
Later that year, Cortes helped Penarol to defeat Spanish champions Real Madrid to win the Intercontinental Cup title. While Cortes was playing for the club, Penarol also won the domestic league championship in 1967 and 1968.Source: http://www.manya.org/historia/campeonesc.html
Uruguay national team (1962-1970)
From 1962 to 1970, Cortes appeared in 30 international matches for Uruguay, scoring 3 goals.
He made his international debut on May 2, 1962 in a 3-2 victory against Scotland in Glasgow shortly before the 1962 World Cup, at which he played in one match. He also appeared at the 1966 and 1970 finals, being one of six Uruguayan players to be part of three World Cup squads. As of the 2006 World Cup. The five other players are Pedro Rocha (with 4 World Cups), Ladislao Mazurkiewicz, William Martinez, Victor Esparrago, Luis Cubilla (3 each).
At the 1966 World Cup, Cortes scored the eventual match-winning goal against France, one of the two goals Uruguay scored in that match and in the entire tournament. Uruguay was eliminated in quarterfinals by West Germany.
Four years later in Mexico, he played all of Uruguay's six matches, as the team reached semifinals, where they lost to Brazil. With the consolation match against West Germany, Cortes reached an overall total of 11 World Cup matches played, Uruguay's second-highest mark behind goalkeeper and Penarol teammate Ladislao Mazurkiewicz's 13. The match against the Germans was also his last international match.
Coaching career
Having migrated to Guatemala in the early 1980s, Cortes has coached for more than two decades in that country, managing also teams in Costa Rica and El Salvador. In 1983, Cortes led Deportivo Suchitepequez to their only national title to date.
Other Guatemalan clubs he coached in the 1980s and 1990s are Juventud Retalteca, CSD Comunicaciones, Xelaju MC, Turrialba F.C, and Aurora FC. In Costa Rica, he coached Deportivo Saprissa in the 1990s, and in the 2000s, he coached C.D. Aguila of El Salvador and Deportivo Jalapa of Guatemala.
Guatemala national team (1987 and 2000-2003)
In 1987, Cortes was named head coach of the Guatemala national team, which he managed at that year's Pan American Games. His second period as Guatemala's manager began in June 2000, and ended three years later, in what is one of the longest uninterrupted tenures for a coach of the Guatemalan team. During that time, Guatemala failed to qualify to the 2002 World Cup, but won the 2001 UNCAF Nations Cup – its first international title in 34 years – and finished runner up of that tournaments two years later.
Dispute with the Guatemalan Federation
After being removed from the charge of national coach in April 2003, Cortes sued the Guatemalan footbal federation (FEDEFUT) for breach of contract, demanding payment of part of his remuneration as national team coach. The coach took the case before FIFA, whom in 2006 ruled that the FEDEFUT pay him part of what he demanded.
In September 2006, the FEDEFUT reacted against the coach, accusing him of fraud before a local court, whom dictated that Cortes – who was at the time living in Costa Rica and was at the moment in Guatemala – remained in the country.
Honours
Player
- Copa Libertadores winner: 1966
- Uruguayan Primera Division winner: 1967, 1968
- FIFA World Cup fourth place: 1970
Manager
- Guatemalan Liga Mayor winner: 1983 (with Suchitepequez)
- Guatemalan domestic cup winner: 1984-85 (with Juventud Retalteca) and 2005 (with Jalapa)
- 2001 UNCAF Nations Cup winner (with the Guatemala national team)
Notes and references
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