Carlos Salvador Bilardo (born March 16, 1939) is an Argentine football (soccer) player and coach (and a physician by training) who achieved worldwide renown as a player with Estudiantes de La Plata and as coach of the 1986 World Cup champion team. March 16 is the 75th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (76th in Leap years). ... 1939 was a common year starting on Sunday (link will take you to calendar). ... Football is a ball game played between two teams of eleven players, each attempting to win by scoring more goals than their opponent. ... Doctor means teacher in Latin. ... Estudiantes de La Plata is a sports club in La Plata, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, with a history of achievement in professional football. ... The 1986 Football World Cup was held in Mexico. ...

Born to Sicilian immigrants and raised in the Buenos Aires La Paternal neighborhood, Bilardo mixed football, study and hard work from his childhood. On school vacations, he would get up before dawn to help haul produce to the Abasto market in Buenos Aires. Even as he rose through the youth divisions of San Lorenzo de Almagro, young Carlos never gave up on his ambition to become a doctor. Sicily (Sicilia in Italian) is an autonomous region of Italy and the largest island in the Mediterranean Sea, with an area of 25,700 sq. ... Buenos Aires (Good Air in Spanish, originally meaning Fair Winds) is the capital of Argentina and its largest city and port, as well as one of the largest cities in South America. ... San Lorenzo de Almagro is a football team based in the Boedo barrio (neighbourhood), Buenos Aires, Argentina. ...

A defensive midfielder, Bilardo was traded to second-division side Deportivo Español, where he became the team's top scorer, and then to Estudiantes de La Plata, where coach Osvaldo Zubeldía built a team based on the killer juveniles (la tercera que mata) and used Bilardo as a mature anchor in the midfield. In association football a midfielder is a player whose position of play is midway between the attacking strikers and the defenders. ... Estudiantes de La Plata is a sports club in La Plata, Buenos Aires province, Argentina, with a history of achievement in professional football. ...

Bilardo became Estudiantes' captain and inside-the-pitch tactician. Over a four-year span, the team won one Metropolitano title (1967), three Copa Libertadores titles (1968-1970) and one Intercontinental Cup (1968). 1967 was a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Copa Libertadores de América (Liberators of the Americas Cup) is an international football cup competition played annually by the top clubs of South America. ... 1968 was a leap year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1968 calendar). ... 1970 was a common year starting on Thursday. ... Champions League Logo Copa Libertadores Logo The European/South American Cup, commonly referred to as the Intercontinental Cup, and also known as the World Club Championship or Toyota Cup, was a football competition endorsed by UEFA and CONMEBOL, contested between the winners of the European Champions League and the South...

After graduating from the Universidad de Buenos Aires faculty of Medicine (together with fellow player Raúl Madero), Bilardo retired from play and accepted the job of Estudiantes coach in 1971. For the next years, he would divide his time between coaching, his family (he married in 1968 and fathered a daughter), and helping manage his father's furniture business. He even found time to practice as a gynecologist. The Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA) is the biggest university in Argentina, founded on August 12, 1821 in the city of Buenos Aires. ... 1971 is a common year starting on Friday (click for link to calendar). ... The shamefulness associated with the examination of female genitalia has long inhibited the science of gynaecology. ...

After two years as coach of Colombia's Deportivo Cali, he became Colombia national team's trainer, but when success was not forthcoming, Estudiantes arranged for his return to Argentina. Asociación Deportivo Cali is a Colombian football (soccer) team, based in Cali. ... First International Mexico 3 - 1 Colombia (Panama City, Panama; 10 February 1938) Largest win Argentina 0 - 5 Colombia (Buenos Aires, Argentina; 5 September 1993) Worst defeat Argentina 9 - 1 Colombia (Santiago, Chile; 7 February 1945) World Cup Appearances 4 (First in 1962) Best result Round 2, 1990 Copa América...

Bilardo took Estudiantes to the semi-finals of the 1982 Nacional and went on to win the same year's Metropolitano title. The team's solid defense was based on Zubeldía's tactics, but it was the attacking might (fueled by players like Sabella, Trobbiani, Gottardi and Ponce) that won the attention of the media and the heads of the Argentine Football Association, who offered him what is arguably the most coveted job in Argentina: coach of the Argentine national team. 1982 is a number and represents a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar Events January January 6 - William Bonin is convicted of being the freeway killer. January 8 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions January 11 - Mark Thatcher, son of the British Prime... Categories: Stub | Football (soccer) governing bodies | Argentine football ... First International Uruguay 2 - 3 Argentina (Montevideo, Uruguay; 16 May 1901) Largest win Argentina 12 - 0 Ecuador (Montevideo, Uruguay; 22 January 1942) Worst defeat Czechoslovakia 6 - 1 Argentina (Helsingborg, Sweden; 15 June 1958) Uruguay 5 - 0 Argentina (Guayaquil, Ecuador; 16 December 1959) Argentina 0 - 5 Colombia (Buenos Aires, Argentina; 5...

He held the post from 1983 until after the 1990 World Cup. Under his watch, Diego Maradona became the most dominant player in football, and Argentina enjoyed their best international harvest ever (winning the 1986 edition and reaching the 1990 final). 1983 is a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The 1990 Football World Cup was held in Italy. ... Maradona and the World Cup trophy Diego Armando Maradona (nicknamed El Diego, El Pelusa, and El Pibe) (born October 30, 1960) is a former Argentine football player. ...

From 1990 and onwards, Bilardo alternated teaching and journalism stints with coaching. He would reunite with Maradona in Sevilla FC and later in Boca Juniors, and have a brief term as the national coach of Libya, before returning to Estudiantes for the 2003-2004 season. Sevilla Fútbol Club is, historically, the best football team in Seville. ... Club Atlético Boca Juniors is an Argentine football (soccer) club. ... 2003 is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 2004 is a leap year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In a publicized episode during that season, Bilardo sat next to the pitch during a game against Club Atlético River Plate and drank from a bottle of champagne. He maintains that the bottle actually contained a non-alcoholic beverage. Media reactions varied from amusement to outrage. Club Atlético River Plate, known also as River Plate or simply River, is a football team of Argentina, founded in 1901. ... The word Champagne can have one of several meanings when stated alone. ...

Bilardo is known by fans and the media as el narigón (big nose). Human nose Anatomically, a nose is a protuberance in vertebrates that houses the nostrils, or nares, which admit and expel air for respiration. ...

External links

• FIFA interview (http://www.fifa.com/en/regulations/magazine/index/0,1569,105156,00.html?articleid=105156)