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Julio Velasco
Velasco in 2016
Personal information
NationalityArgentina Argentine
Italy Italian
Born (1952-02-09) 9 February 1952 (age 72)
La Plata, Argentina
Coaching information
Current teamArgentina
Previous teams coached
YearsTeams
1979–1981
1981–1983
1983–1985
1985–1989
1989–1996
1996–1997
2001–2002
2002–2004
2004–2006
2006–2008
2008–2010
2011–2014
2014–2018
2018–2019		Ferro Carril Oeste
Argentina (AC)
Tre Valli Jesi
Modena Volley
Italy
Italy (W)
Czech Republic
Copra Piacenza
Modena Volley
Gabeca Montichiari
Spain
Iran
Argentina
Modena Volley
Honours
Men’s volleyball
Head Coach  Italy
Olympic Games
Silver medal – second place 1996 Atlanta
FIVB World Championship
Gold medal – first place 1990 Brazil
Gold medal – first place 1994 Greece
FIVB World Cup
Gold medal – first place 1995 Japan
FIVB World Grand Champions Cup
Gold medal – first place 1993 Japan
FIVB World League
Gold medal – first place 1990 Osaka
Gold medal – first place 1991 Milan
Gold medal – first place 1992 Genoa
Gold medal – first place 1994 Milan
Gold medal – first place 1995 Rio de Janeiro
Silver medal – second place 1996 Rotterdam
Bronze medal – third place 1993 São Paulo
CEV European Championship
Gold medal – first place 1989 Sweden
Gold medal – first place 1993 Finland
Gold medal – first place 1995 Greece
Silver medal – second place 1991 Germany
Head Coach  Iran
AVC Asian Championship
Gold medal – first place 2011 Iran
Gold medal – first place 2013 UAE

Julio Velasco (born 9 February 1952) is an Argentine former professional volleyball player and coach. He's had Italian citizenship obtained in 1992. Velasco was inducted into the Volleyball Hall of Fame in 2005. Velasco currently serves as a sports director for the Italian Volleyball Federation.[1]

Career

Player

Julio Velasco began playing volleyball at the age of 15 for National University of La Plata Club.

Coach

Velasco became assistant coach on the Argentina national men's team from 1981 to 1983.

In 1983 he was invited to coach for Tre Valli Jesi in Italy, staying until 1985. He coached at Panini Modena 1985-1989 and led them to four Italian national championships in 1986-1989.

In 1989 he was appointed head coach of the Italy men's national team leading them to unprecedented successes. His first trophy with the Italian team was at the 1989 Men's European Volleyball Championship in Sweden, where they topped their preliminary group with only one loss and went through the knockout stage up to the final where they beat 3–1 the host side[2] to win their first ever official tournament.

But it was in 1990 that Velasco helped Italy to reach the top the world, leading them to win the World Championship in Brazil: in the knockout stage Italy beat Argentina 3–0 in the quarterfinals, the host Brazil 3-2 in the semifinals and eventually Cuba 3–1 in the championship final to win their first ever title as world champions.[3]

During his tenure as Italy's coach Velasco won two more European Championships, another World Championship and five World Leagues, in addition to other minor trophies like the FIVB World Grand Champions Cup, Mediterranean Games, FIVB World Cup and World Super Challenge. Velasco also took the Italian men’s team to win its first silver medal history FIPAV in the 1996 Summer Olympics.

After the 1996 Summer Olympics, where the Italians won silver, he switched to the Italy women's team, from 1996 to 1997, coaching them to a Gold Medal at the Mediterranean Games. He coached the Czech Republic men's national team in 2001. He returned to Italy to coach the Copra Piacenza club in 2002. In 2008 he was selected to coach the Spain men's national team, winning with them the 2009 European Volleyball League. In 2011, Velasco was signed as the head coach of the Iran men's national team. He became coach of the Argentina men's national team before his contract with the Iranian national team expired on 1 March 2014, after winning two Asian Championships. This change of teams was due to the request of the people and the president of Argentina, and was approved by the Iranian volleyball confederation because of Iranians’ respect for their coach.[4] He led the Argentinian team to win the 2015 Pan American Games. Velasco was appointed head coach of Modena Volley for the 2018/2019 season.[5]

Administrator

During the season 1998–99 Velasco was General Director of UEFA Cup winner S.S. Lazio, and in 2000 he moved to Massimo Moratti's Inter Milan.

Honours

Ferro:

Modena:

Individual awards

Orders

  • CONI: Golden Palm of Technical Merit: Palma d'oro al Merito Tecnico: 2018[6]

About him

He has discussed coaching with football mastermind Pep Guardiola multiple times. When he lived in Italy, Guardiola once travelled hundreds of kilometres so that he could meet Argentinian volleyball coach Julio Velasco personally, simply because he had seen him in a TV interview and wanted to learn from him.[7]

References

  1. ^ Work team like Julio Velasco / Forbes
  2. ^ Sannucci, Corrado (1989-10-03). "E il magico Julio portò la scienza" […and the Magical Julio Brought In the Science]. la Repubblica (in Italian). Rome. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  3. ^ "Con loro oltre la rete" [With Them Beyond the Net]. la Repubblica (in Italian). 1990-10-30. Retrieved 2018-01-17.
  4. ^ "Julio Velasco will be the Argentine Seniors Men's coach". FIVB. Retrieved April 24, 2014.
  5. ^ Julio Velasco brand new Modena Volley coach
  6. ^ JULIO VELASCO / Italian National Olympic Committee
  7. ^ FIVB - Julio Velasco
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