Julio Comesaña

Julio Comesaña

Personal information
Full name	Julio Avelino Comesaña López
Date of birth	(1948-03-10) 10 March 1948
Place of birth	Montevideo, Uruguay
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Atlético Junior (manager)
Youth career
1964–1967	Peñarol
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1967–1968	Racing Montevideo
1969–1970	Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata	29	(1)
1971	Kimberley	11	(0)
1972–1973	Millonarios	26	(0)
1973	Atlético Junior	25	(2)
1974	Ferro Carril Oeste	4	(0)
1975–1979	Atlético Junior	210	(0)
1980–1981	Independiente Medellín	44	(0)
Managerial career
1982–1986	Independiente Medellín
1987	Deportivo Cali
1988	Guaraní
1989–1990	Danubio
1991	Atlético Junior
1992	Independiente Medellín
1992–1994	Atlético Junior
1995–1996	Independiente Santa Fe
1996	Deportes Tolima
1996	Unión Española
1997	Atlético Junior
2000	Independiente Medellín
2002	Atlético Junior
2003–2004	Independiente Santa Fe
2005	Deportivo Cuenca
2006	Real Cartagena
2008–2009	Atlético Junior
2011	Deportivo Pereira
2011	Colombia (assistant)
2012	Deportivo Cali
2013–2014	Patriotas
2014	Atlético Junior
2015–2016	Sud América
2016	Racing Montevideo
2016	River Plate Montevideo
2017	Atlético Junior
2018	Atlético Junior
2019	Colón de Santa Fe
2019–	Atlético Junior
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Julio Avelino Comesaña López (born 10 March 1948) is a Uruguayan professional football manager and former football player currently in charge of Colombian club Atlético Junior.

Playing career

Club

Comesaña played for 7 clubs during his career as a footballer: Racing Montevideo (1967–1968) in Uruguay; Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata (1969–1970), Kimberley (1971), and Ferro Carril Oeste (1974) in Argentina; Millonarios (1972–1973), Atlético Junior (1973, and 1975–1979), and Independiente Medellín (1980–1981) in Colombia.

Coaching career

Club

As a manager, Comesaña has coached 16 teams: Independiente Medellín (1982–1986, 1992, and 2000), Deportivo Cali (1987, and 2012), Atlético Junior (1991, 1992–1994, 1997, 2002, 2008–2009, 2014, 2017, 2018, and 2019), Independiente Santa Fe (1995–1996, and 2003–2004), Deportes Tolima (1996), Real Cartagena (2006), Deportivo Pereira (2011), and Patriotas (2013–2014) in Colombia; Guaraní (1988) in Paraguay; Danubio (1989–1990), Sud América (2015–2016), Racing Montevideo (2016), and River Plate Montevideo (2016) in Uruguay; Unión Española (1996) in Chile; Deportivo Cuenca (2005) in Ecuador; Colón de Santa Fe (2019) in Argentina.

Honours

Player

Millonarios

• Categoría Primera A: 1972

Atlético Junior

• Categoría Primera A: 1977

Manager

Atlético Junior

• Categoría Primera A: 1993, 2018-II, 2019-I
• Copa Colombia: 2017

External links

• Avelino Julio Comesaña at BDFA (in Spanish)
• Julio Comesaña coach profile at Soccerway