Edgardo Bauza (born 26 January 1958) is an Argentine

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manager and former player who played as a defender. Before taking up management, he played over 300 games for Rosario Central. He also played for Independiente in Argentina,

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in Colombia and

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in Mexico. As a manager, Bauza has coached several South American sides, mainly in Argentina, but also teams in Peru, Ecuador, and Brazil, as well as Saudi club Al-Nassr, and the

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, and

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national teams.

Managerial career

In 2008, Bauza made history by becoming the first manager ever to lead an Ecuadorian club to victory in an international tournament, winning that year's Copa Libertadores. His team included three Argentine players (

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and Norberto Araujo), along with Paraguayan midfielder Enrique Vera, strong wingers

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and

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and veteran goalkeeper and penalty shootout hero José Francisco Cevallos. He resigned after losing the

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. On 15 January 2009, the IFFHS ranked him third among the top ten club coaches around the world, only behind

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and

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. He was also voted the 2008

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an newspaper ''El País''. After a spell with Saudi Arabian side

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, Bauza returned to LDU Quito in December 2009, replacing

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-winning manager Jorge Fossati. He lost the

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finals to

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. In 2013, he joined San Lorenzo de Almagro of the Argentine Primera División, where he led the club to its first ever Copa Libertadores title in 2014. He subsequently signed with São Paulo FC from

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on 17 December 2015. President of club, Carlos Augusto de Barros e Silva, said the following words: "I am very happy for signing with a winning coach ... After just one season in Brazil, Bauza was appointed as the new manager of the Argentina national team, on 11 August 2016. He was relieved of his duties on 11 April 2017 with the Albiceleste placed fifth in CONMEBOL World Cup qualifying, with only four teams guaranteed a qualification spot. He was appointed as the head coach of

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in May the same year, but narrowly failed to take the team to qualify for the World Cup, with a record of two wins, one draw and one defeat in his tenure. After only four months he resigned from the post to join

in September. He was sacked from the Saudi Arabian team on 22 November. He was appointed manager of Rosario Central in May 2018. Bauza guided Rosario Central to win the Copa Argentina 2018. After a period with bad results, Rosario decided to fire Bauza on 23 February 2019.

Personal life

On 19 May 2022, it was revealed via Argentine radio that Bauza was suffering from advanced

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Honours

As a player

Rosario Central * Primera División:

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ...

, 1986-87 Atlético Junior *

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runner-up: 1983 Argentina *

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runner-up:

1990 Important events of 1990 include the Reunification of Germany and the unification of Yemen, the formal beginning of the Human Genome Project (finished in 2003), the launch of the Hubble Space Telescope, the separation of Namibia from South ...

As a manager

Rosario Central *

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runner-up: 1999 Apertura *

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runner-up:

1998 1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''. Events January * January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...

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2018 Events January * January 1 – Bulgaria takes over the Presidency of the Council of the European Union, after the Estonian presidency. * January 4 – SPLM-IO rebels loyal to Chan Garang Lual start a raid against Juba, capital of ...

Sporting Cristal *

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runner-up:

2004 2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and Its Abolition (by UNESCO). Events January * January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 60 ...

L.D.U. Quito *

Ecuadorian Serie A The Liga Pro Ecuador Serie A, simply known as the Liga Pro or the Serie A (or the Ecuadorian Serie A to distinguish it from the Italian Serie A and the Brazilian Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, Série A), or as Liga Pro Ecuabet for sponsorship re ...

2007 2007 was designated as the International Heliophysical Year and the International Polar Year. Events January * January 1 **Bulgaria and Romania 2007 enlargement of the European Union, join the European Union, while Slovenia joins the Eur ...

2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

Copa Libertadores The CONMEBOL Libertadores, also known as Copa Libertadores de América (), is an annual continental club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 1960. It is the highest level of competition in South American club football. The tournam ...

2008 2008 was designated as: *International Year of Languages *International Year of Planet Earth *International Year of the Potato *International Year of Sanitation The Great Recession, a worldwide recession which began in 2007, continued throu ...

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runner-up:

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runner-up:

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runner-up:

2011 The year marked the start of a Arab Spring, series of protests and revolutions throughout the Arab world advocating for democracy, reform, and economic recovery, later leading to the depositions of world leaders in Tunisia, Egypt, and Yemen ...

San Lorenzo * Copa Campeonato runner-up:

2014 The year 2014 was marked by the surge of the Western African Ebola epidemic, West African Ebola epidemic, which began in 2013, becoming the List of Ebola outbreaks, most widespread outbreak of the Ebola, Ebola virus in human history, resul ...

runner-up:

, *

runner-up:

2015 2015 was designated by the United Nations as: * International Year of Light * International Year of Soil __TOC__ Events January * January 1 – Lithuania officially adopts the euro as its currency, replacing the litas, and becomes ...

runner-up:

References

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Bauza, Edgardo 1958 births Living people People from Rosario Department Rosario Central footballers Atlético Junior footballers Club Atlético Independiente footballers C.D. Veracruz footballers Men's association football defenders Argentine men's footballers 1990 FIFA World Cup players Argentine Primera División players Liga MX players Categoría Primera A players Argentine expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Colombia Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico Expatriate football managers in Brazil Expatriate football managers in Ecuador Expatriate football managers in Peru Expatriate football managers in Saudi Arabia Argentina men's international footballers Argentine football managers Argentine expatriate football managers Rosario Central managers Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield managers Club Atlético Colón managers Sporting Cristal managers L.D.U. Quito managers Al-Nassr FC managers San Lorenzo de Almagro managers São Paulo FC managers Campeonato Brasileiro Série A managers Saudi Pro League managers Argentina national football team managers United Arab Emirates national football team managers Saudi Arabia national football team managers Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Peru Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Saudi Arabia Argentine expatriate sportspeople in the United Arab Emirates Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Brazil Footballers from Santa Fe Province Copa Libertadores–winning managers 20th-century Argentine sportsmen