Sebastián Beccacece

Sebastián Andrés Beccacece (born 17 December 1980) is an Argentine football manager. He is a free agent after resigning as head coach of Racing Club.[1]

Sebastián Beccacece
Personal information
Full name Sebastián Andrés Beccacece
Date of birth (1980-12-17) 17 December 1980
Place of birth Rosario, Argentina
Height 1.78
Position(s) Right back
Youth career
Team
Lavalle
1995–2001 Juan XXIII
Teams managed
Years Team
2003 Sport Boys (assistant)
2004–2006 Coronel Bolognesi (assistant)
2007 Sporting Cristal (assistant)
2008–2009 O'Higgins (assistant)
2010 Emelec (assistant)
2011–2012 Universidad de Chile (assistant)
2012–2015 Chile (assistant)
2016 Universidad de Chile
2016–2017 Defensa y Justicia
2017–2018 Argentina (assistant)
2018–2019 Defensa y Justicia
2019 Independiente
2020–2021 Racing Club

Career

Early career

Beccacece played for Argentine amateur club Juan XXIII as a right back when he was teenager. After failing to have success as footballer, he involved in football management, beginning at Newell's Old Boys football academy in 2001.

Since 2003, aged twenty three, he worked as Jorge Sampaoli’s assistant coach, joining alongside him to Peruvian side Sport Boys from Callao. After four years at the Peruvian football, in 2008, they moved to Chilean top-level club O'Higgins, staying there until August of the incoming year. Weeks later, they signed for Emelec, Ecuadorian giant.

In 2010, following the World Cup, he had the possibility to work with Marcelo Bielsa in the Chile national football team. Nevertheless, Beccacece refused the offer and remained as Sampaoli’s assistant. Then, in December, they returned to Chile, joining powerhouse club Universidad de Chile to face the 2011 season. There, together reached the two league titles (Apertura and Clausura) and the Copa Sudamericana.

Following their success at Universidad de Chile, in 2013, Beccacece and Sampaoli were signed by the ANFP to led the Chile national team, finally arriving there after rejecting Bielsa’s offer.[2] At Chile they achieved the qualification to the 2014 World Cup finals and the first ever Copa América title in the country’s history. In 2015, they resigned from the Chile national team amid the FIFA corruption case where they were involved alongside Federation’s president Sergio Jadue.[3]

Universidad de Chile
Beccacece with Universidad de Chile’s 2011 Copa Sudamericana champion team at Moneda Palace with the then president Sebastián Piñera.

On 11 January 2016, after putting an agreed end to his years as assistant coach of Sampaoli, Universidad de Chile signed him as first-team coach, replacing former coach Martín Lasarte.[4] During his first days at the club, the team received as signings the Argentine playmaker Luis Fariña on 12 January,[5] and a week later, the Chilean international Gonzalo Jara[6] and the also Argentine Fabián Monzón from Calcio Catania.[7]

On 24 January, in his second league game since his debut for this competition at the bench (a 1–1 away draw with Deportes Antofagasta), Beccacece impressed following the team’s 8–1 home thrash over O'Higgins at the Estadio Nacional.[8] After of that great victory nevertheless the team reaped three draws and one loss against Palestino (2–1). During February’s first days, the team was eliminated of the Copa Libertadores first stage by Uruguay’s River Plate F.C., which was his first failure and it meant being the target of criticism from the press and the team’s supporters.[9] On 28 February, the 4–1 away victory over Cobresal would be a balm of the team’s moment.[10] Following a 0–0 draw with Unión Española and two losses (3–1 with Universidad de Concepción as local and 5–4 against Santiago Wanderers as visitors), he back to draw, now in the Chilean football derby with Colo-Colo, which was again a goalless where both teams were criticized for its game level.[11] Finally, Beccacece would end in the tenth place with three wins, seven draws and five losses and his continuity was heavily questioned during the Copa América Centenario break.[12]

For the purpose of the 2016 Torneo Apertura, the club hired to Luis María Bonini as fitness coach[13] and were appointed ten players which joined the club, between the most important figured Jean Beausejour from archi-rivals Colo-Colo, Christian Vilches from Atlético Paranaense (former Colo-Colo too) and the Argentine playmaker Gastón Fernández from Estudiantes de La Plata.[14] He began the tournament losing 1–0 with Wanderers at Valparaíso, and drawing 1–1 as locals with Deportes Antofagasta on 7 August, date where again his continuity was questioned.[15] Nevertheless he would return to victory, reaching two consecutive triumphs with San Luis de Quillota (4–2) and Universidad de Concepción (3–1), that this time saw their end on 27 August after being defeated 3–0 by Universidad Católica.[16] Highlighting, that game he kicked a freezer next to the bench during the moment that the referee Roberto Tobar took penalty which finally was Católica’s third goal.[17]

References
  1. "Coach of Argentina's Racing Club announces departure". Xinhua. 26 December 2020. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
  2. "El carismático cuerpo técnico que acompañará a Sampaoli en la Roja". El Gráfico Chile. 3 December 2012. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  3. "ANFP acudirá a la FIFA por demanda de Sebastián Beccacece". La Nación (Chile). 13 July 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  4. "Sebastián Beccacece fue presentado en la U y aclaró 'error' que cometió con Martín Lasarte". Emol. 11 January 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  5. "Luis Fariña aprueba exámenes y Monzón se acerca a la U". AS Chile. 12 January 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  6. "Gonzalo Jara ya entrena junto a Universidad de Chile". T13.cl. 19 January 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  7. "Monzón destraba su situación y será el tercer refuerzo de la U". AS Chile. 19 January 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  8. "La U es pura fiesta y humilla a O'Higgins en el Nacional". AS Chile. 24 January 2016. Retrieved 7 September 2016.
  9. "River Plate de Uruguay elimina a Universidad de Chile y avanza en Copa Libertadores". El Universo. 10 February 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  10. "La U golea a Cobresal en el norte y Beccacece respira". AS Chile. 28 February 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  11. "La U y Colo Colo igualan en un Superclásico para el olvido". AS Chile. 21 March 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  12. "Heller ratifica a Beccacece como DT de la U, pero aclara que se irá a fin de año si vuelve a fracasar". AS Chile. 11 May 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  13. "Comienza la era Bonini en la U de Beccacece". La Tercera. 23 May 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  14. "¡Fin de la película! Universidad de Chile selló finalmente a su último refuerzo". AS Chile. 27 July 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  15. "Dirigencia de Azul Azul confirma continuidad de Beccacece en el banco de la 'U'". T13.cl. 8 August 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  16. "Universidad Católica golea a la 'U' de Beccacece". Radio Universidad de Chile. 8 August 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
  17. "Beccacece explicó su airada reacción: 'Son impulsos que son desmedidos y no deben suceder'". Radio Universidad de Chile. 27 August 2016. Retrieved 9 September 2016.
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