Franco Navarro
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Franco Enrique Navarro Monteiro | ||
Date of birth | 10 November 1961 | ||
Place of birth | Aguaytia Pucallpa, Peru | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Club Deportivo Municipal (Manager) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1979–1982 | Municipal | ||
1983–1985 | Sporting Cristal | ||
1985–1986 | Independiente Medellín | ||
1986–1988 | Independiente | 70 | (22) |
1988 | Tecos UAG | 3 | (0) |
1989 | Wettingen | 8 | (0) |
1989–1990 | Unión Santa Fe | 10 | (0) |
1991–1992 | Sporting Cristal | ||
1993 | Municipal | ||
1994 | Carlos A. Mannucci | 4 | (2) |
1995 | Alianza Lima | ||
International career | |||
1980–1989 | Peru | 56 | (16) |
Managerial career | |||
1998–2000 | Sporting Cristal | ||
2001 | Est. de Medicina | ||
2002 | Alianza Lima | ||
2003 | Unión Huaral | ||
2004–2005 | Sport Boys | ||
2005 | Univ. César Vallejo | ||
2006 | Peru | ||
2007–2008 | Cienciano | ||
2008–2009 | Juan Aurich | ||
2010–2011 | León de Huánuco | ||
2012 | Univ. San Martín | ||
2012 | Juan Aurich | ||
2013 | Melgar | ||
2014–2016 | Univ. César Vallejo | ||
2016– | UT Cajamarca | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of February 2008 |
Franco Enrique Navarro Monteiro (born 10 November 1961 in Lima) is a Peruvian football manager and former striker. He currently manages UT Cajamarca in the Torneo Descentralizado.
Club career
Navarro played for Deportivo Municipal, Sporting Cristal, Alianza Lima, Independiente from Argentina and FC Wettingen from Switzerland among others. He retired in 1995.
International career
He was a prolific goal scorer and a participant at the 1982 FIFA World Cup. He was also member of the Peru national football team for the qualification stages of the World Cup in Mexico (1986) and Italy (1990). Navarro played a total of 56 games for Peru between 1980 and 1989, scoring 16 goals.[1] He made his debut on 18 July 1980 in a friendly against Uruguay (0–0) in Montevideo. His last game was on 27 August 1989 against Uruguay at a FIFA World Cup Qualifier.
He is remembered for the leg-breaking incident five minutes into the deciding qualifier game between Argentina and Peru in the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. The Argentine defender Julián Camino broke Navarro’s leg with a tackle. Camino was not expelled from the game. Argentina with Ricardo Gareca tied the game 2–2 and qualified to the World Cup; Argentina would go on to win the 1986 World Cup.
Coaching career
He has been a coach for several Peruvian teams, including Sporting Cristal, Alianza Lima, and Cienciano as well as the Peru national football team.
References
- ^ rsssf: Peru record international footballers Archived February 2, 2009, at the Wayback Machine
External links
- Franco Navarro at National-Football-Teams.com
- Franco Navarro at FootballDatabase.eu
- 1961 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Lima
- Association football forwards
- Peruvian footballers
- Peru international footballers
- Peruvian Primera División players
- Deportivo Municipal footballers
- Sporting Cristal footballers
- Independiente Medellín footballers
- Club Atlético Independiente footballers
- Tecos F.C. footballers
- FC Wettingen players
- Unión de Santa Fe footballers
- Alianza Lima footballers
- Categoría Primera A players
- Argentine Primera División players
- Peruvian expatriate footballers
- Peruvian expatriate sportspeople in Colombia
- Peruvian expatriate sportspeople in Argentina
- Peruvian expatriate sportspeople in Mexico
- Expatriate footballers in Colombia
- Expatriate footballers in Argentina
- Expatriate footballers in Mexico
- Expatriate footballers in Switzerland
- 1982 FIFA World Cup players
- 1983 Copa América players
- 1987 Copa América players
- 1989 Copa América players
- Peruvian football managers
- Torneo Descentralizado managers
- Sporting Cristal managers
- Alianza Lima managers
- Sport Boys managers
- Peru national football team managers
- Cienciano managers
- Juan Aurich managers
- Universidad San Martín managers
- FBC Melgar managers