Ramón Ángel Díaz (; born 29 August 1959) is an Argentine

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and former player. Díaz notably played for River Plate as a striker, and coached the club on three occasions, winning eight titles. He is also known by the nickname of ''El Pelado'' ("Baldy").

Club career

River Plate

Born in

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, Díaz was a youth product of River Plate, being a spotlight under youth manager

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. He made his first team – Primera División – debut on 13 August 1978, starting in a 1–0 win over Colón, as the club used an alternative lineup as the first team regulars were out on a trip to Europe. Díaz scored his first goal on 30 August 1978, in a 1–1 draw against

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. He went on to become a regular starter for the club, notably scoring 22 league goals in the 1980 season.

Italy

In 1982, Díaz moved abroad for the first time in his career, signing for Italian

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side

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. Despite finishing his first and only season at the club as the top scorer with eight goals overall, Napoli's campaign was disappointing as they finished in the 10th position, only two points away from relegation. In 1983, Díaz joined

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initially on loan, being a regular starter during his three-season spell and scoring 11 goals in the 1985–86 campaign. In July 1986, he moved to

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for a 10 billion lire fee. On 21 July 1988, Díaz agreed to a loan deal with

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as a replacement to

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, which had failed his medical. Despite scoring 15 goals overall in the season, being the club's second-best goalscorer (only behind

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), he was not purchased by Inter and subsequently replaced by

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Monaco, River Plate return and retirement

In 1989, Díaz moved to French club

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, and won the

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with the club. In 1991, he returned to his first club River Plate, being the top scorer of the 1991 Apertura Tournament. At the end of his career, Díaz was the 1993 J.League Top Scorer with

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in Japan, and he is the all-time top scorer of the Yokohama derby that scoring 8 goals against

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International career

Díaz was on the Argentina under-20 team that won the

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, alongside

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. Díaz and Maradona were the core of the attack-minded team, and together scored 14 of the team's 20 goals (70%). Díaz scored 8 goals, winning the Golden Boot for being the top scorer of the competition. Maradona scored 6 goals, winning the Best Player award. Díaz then went on to play in the

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and scored against

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in Argentina's 3–1 defeat. It had been rumoured that he and Maradona were involved in a feud which prevented Díaz from playing for Argentina in the 1986 and 1990 World Cups. However, this was denied by Maradona in his autobiography ''Yo soy el Diego'', claiming that he had told the then-Argentina manager,

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, that he wanted Diaz in both the 1986 and 1990 World Cup squads.

Managerial career

River Plate

In 1995, Díaz was named manager of his first club River Plate, replacing sacked

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; his intentions at the time were to play for the club before retiring, but president Alfredo Davicce invited him as manager instead. His first match in charge of the club occurred on 26 July, a 1–1

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draw against

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. Díaz notably won the 1996 Libertadores and the

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with River, aside from four league titles in his first spell. He resigned from the club in February 2000, after a 2–1 friendly loss to rivals

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and after having altercations with the club's board. On 23 June 2001, Díaz agreed to return to River, replacing his successor

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. He won another league title (the 2002 Clausura Tournament), but was replaced by

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on 20 May 2002, as the club opted to not renew his contract.

Oxford United

On 9 December 2004, Díaz replaced

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as manager of English League Two club

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. At the time, Díaz told the media: "I like English football and I wanted to get first-hand experience of it...I'd seen plenty of it on television... It's also very interesting to work at this level, because it's completely different from football at the top." It was also claimed that neither Díaz nor any of his five backroom staff were being paid by Oxford United for their services. On 4 May 2005, Díaz resigned from Oxford after "negotiations over a new contract broke down".

San Lorenzo

On 24 December 2006, Díaz was appointed head coach of

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for the upcoming season. He helped the club lift the 2007 Clausura Tournament title, the club's first title in six years. Despite qualifying San Lorenzo to the

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, Díaz's side were knocked out by champions

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in May, and he resigned from the club on 28 May.

Club América

On 15 May 2008, Diaz was confirmed as the new

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coach. Although the club did not reveal specific details about Diaz' contract, he was reportedly offered 1.5 million dollars per year including performance-related bonuses which could have taken his total earnings to 6 million dollars. Díaz failed to make Club América qualify to

. In the start of the Clausura 2009 season, Díaz won against

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2–1, drew against

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2–2, and lost against

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1–0 and

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3–1. After two consecutive league losses, and the club being in 12th position in the league table, he was dismissed on 10 February 2009.

Return to San Lorenzo

On 25 May 2010, it was made official by San Lorenzo president Savino that Díaz was appointed manager for the second time, after agreeing to a one-year contract. After a mid-table campaign in the 2010 Apertura, he resigned on 24 April 2011, stating that he wanted to "fight for the first positions".

Independiente

On 12 September 2011, Independiente hired Díaz to replace

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, who had resigned. On 5 March 2012, he resigned from his position at the club, who had been struggling and found themselves at the very bottom of the table.

Third spell at River Plate

On 30 November 2012, Díaz returned to River Plate for his third spell as manager. He won the Torneo Final in 2014, and also won the Superfinal against former side San Lorenzo by 1–0. On 27 May 2014, Díaz left River Plate.

Paraguay national team

On 5 December 2014, Díaz became the manager of the Paraguay national team. He said: "It's one of the biggest challenges of my career... There's a lot of work to do". His first major competition was the

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, with his first match being against

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which they drew 2–2. Paraguay subsequently defeated

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1–0 and drew 1–1 against

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, finishing second in their group. Paraguay won the quarterfinal against

1–1 (4–3 on penalties), but lost 6–1 to Argentina in the semifinals which let them go to the third group playoff which they lost 2–0 against

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which made Paraguay fourth in the Copa América. He was also in charge of the nation in the

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, where Paraguay were eliminated in the group stage, by drawing against

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and losing to

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2–1 and the US 1–0. On 12 June 2016, following an unsuccessful run at Copa América Centenario, Díaz resigned as manager of Paraguay.

Al-Hilal

On 13 October 2016 Ramón Díaz was appointed manager of Al-Hilal after former manager

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was sacked with a one-year contract.

2016–17 season

Ramón's first match was against

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where Al-Hilal won 1–0. On 25 November, Rámon played his first important match against Al-Ahli where they won 2–1. Ramón drew the Riyadh Derby against

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1–1. Ramón won 4–2 against Al-Taawon. He won against

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3–1. Ramón Diaz drew 0–0 against Al-Ahli, but he won against Al-Shabab 2–1 to secure the title. Al-Hilal lifted the league against Al-Nassr in the Riyadh Derby after winning 5–1 in the league. Ramón Díaz renewed his contract for one more year for 1.5 million dollars. Ramón made Al-Hilal first in the Champions League group stages after winning against Al-Rayyan 4–3. Ramón made Al-Hilal qualify to the King's Cup final after beating Al-Taawon 3–4. Ramón Díaz won the King's Cup against Al-Ahli in final 3–2. Rámon Díaz won the Champions League Round of 16 first leg against

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2–1. Díaz won the second leg 2–1 again –4 on AGGmaking Al-Hilal go to the quarterfinals of the AFC Champions League.

2017–18 season

On 4 June, Díaz signed Mukhtar Fallatah to make him the first signing of the season. On 19 June 2017, Ramòn Díaz made

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a permanent signing after he was on loan, the fee 11 million dollars (44 million riyals) and signed a four-year contract with Al-Hilal. On 10 Jan, Díaz signed

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for free from Al-Fateh. On 3 July, Al-Hilal signed

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and Hasan Kadish from Ettifaq.
On 10 August, Díaz won the first match of the season 2–1 against league debutant Al-Fayha. On 15 August, Ramón Díaz won his second match of the season which was against Al-Taawoun 4–3. On 21 August, Díaz made Al-Hilal draw against

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0–0 in the

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quarter finals. On 11 September, Díaz made Al-Hilal qualify to the semi-final of the AFC Champions League after beating Al-Ain 3–0. After that, he signed

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to become his sixth registered foreigner player in the 2017–18 season. On 16 September, Ramón Díaz won the third match of season against Ohod 1–0. On 21 September, Al-Hilal drew against Al-Ittihad 1–1. On 26 October, Diaz made Al-Hilal won the Riyadh Derby against

. On 18 November, Díaz and his team drew in the first leg of the final of the

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against

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1–1 in Riyadh. On 25 November, they lost the second 1–0 making them runners-up in the tournament. On 1 December, he led his team to win against title challengers Al-Ahli 2–0. On 17 December, Díaz and his team lost their first match in the league against Al-Fayha 2–1. After that, Diaz won against Ohod 4–1. On 20 January, Al-Hilal were knocked out of the

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by Al-Qadisyah in the round of 16. On 13 February, Al-Hilal drew their first match in their new stadium the King Saud University Stadium against

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0–0 in the Champions League. On 20 February, Al-Hilal lost 1–0 against Esteghlal in Oman. On 21 February 2018, Al-Hilal sacked Díaz due to unsatisfactory performances.

Pyramids

On 26 January 2019, Díaz was named manager of Egyptian side

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. He left the club on 27 May, after just 12 matches.

Libertad

On 17 December 2019, Díaz was announced as manager of

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, returning to Paraguay after more than three years. He resigned on 24 September 2020, after the club's poor run of form.

Botafogo

On 8 November 2020, Díaz was named head coach of Série A side

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. He subsequently returned to his home country to make an emergency surgery to remove a tumor, and his absence was prolonged due to his clinical condition. On 27 November 2020, Botafogo announced the departure of Díaz and his staff from the club. He left the club without managing a single match for them, as the three matches played by them during the period (all losses) were managed by his assistant and son

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Al Nassr

In February 2021, Díaz agreed to a contract with

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to last until the summer of 2022. He left the club roughly one year later, after a poor league form.

Return to Al Hilal

On 14 February 2022, Díaz was named as the new coach of

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club Al Hilal until the end of the season. However, he later led Al Hilal to defeat

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3–2 in the

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semi-finals, before losing the

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3–5 against

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. In the 2022 AFC Champions League final, his team lost 2–1 on aggregate against Urawa Red Diamonds for the second time after 2017. After winning the King Cup final against Al-Wehda in May 2023, Díaz decided to step down from his post and return to his country, in order to be with his family following the death of his wife two months earlier in a car accident; meanwhile, his son Emiliano became the caretaker manager of the club for the rest of the season.

Vasco da Gama

On 15 July 2023, Díaz returned to Brazil after being announced as head coach of

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in the top tier. He managed to narrowly avoid relegation with the club in the last round of the 2023 Série A, and renewed his contract until 2025 on 15 December. On 27 April 2024, Díaz was sacked by Vasco after a 4–0 loss to

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; despite Brazilian media outlets stating that he resigned just after the match, both Díaz and his son stated that they were "sacked through

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Corinthians

On 10 July 2024, Díaz was announced as head coach of

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on a contract until December 2025. He led the side to the

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title over rivals

Palmeiras The Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras (), commonly known as Palmeiras, is a Brazilian professional association football, football club based in the city of São Paulo, in the district of Perdizes (district of São Paulo), Perdizes. Palmeiras is ...

, lifting the 17th trophy of his managerial career and surpassing

Helenio Herrera Helenio Herrera Gavilán (; 10 April 1910 – 9 November 1997) was an Argentina, Argentine and naturalised France, French association football, football player and Manager (association football), manager. He is best remembered for his success ...

as the most successful Argentine coach in history. On 17 April 2025, however, Díaz was dismissed by the club after a 2–0 home loss to

Fluminense Fluminense Football Club () is a Brazilian sports club based in the neighbourhood of Laranjeiras, in Rio de Janeiro, being the oldest football club in the state since its foundation in 1902. It competes in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A, th ...

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River Plate *

Primera División Argentina Primera may refer to * Nissan Primera, a car * Primera Air, a former airline * Primera división (disambiguation), multiple top division football leagues * Primera, Texas, a town in Cameron County, Texas * Alí Primera Ely Rafael Primera Ros ...

: 1979 Metropolitano, 1979 Nacional, 1980 Metropolitano, 1981 Nacional, 1991 Apertura *

Supercopa Libertadores The Supercopa Libertadores (English: ''Libertadores Supercup''), also known as the Supercopa Sudamericana, Supercopa Libertadores João Havelange, Supercopa João Havelange or simply Supercopa, was a football club competition contested annually b ...

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1991 It was the final year of the Cold War, which had begun in 1947. During the year, the Soviet Union Dissolution of the Soviet Union, collapsed, leaving Post-soviet states, fifteen sovereign republics and the Commonwealth of Independent State ...

Internazionale *

: 1988–89 Monaco *

Coupe de France The Coupe de France (), also known in English language, English as the French Cup or less commonly as the France Cup, is the premier Single-elimination tournament, knockout cup competition in French football organised by the French Football Fed ...

: 1990–91 *

Ligue 1 Ligue 1 (; ), officially known as Ligue 1 McDonald's France, McDonald's for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in France and the highest level of the French football league system. Administered by the Ligue de ...

runner-up: 1990-91 Yokohama Marinos *

J1 League The , the J.League or the for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in Japan and the highest level of the Japanese football league system. Contested by 20 clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation ...

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

Argentina U20 *

FIFA World Youth Championship The FIFA U-20 World Cup is the biennial football world championship tournament for FIFA members' men's national teams with players under the age of 20. The competition has been staged every two years since the inaugural tournament in 1977 when i ...

1979 Events January * January 1 ** United Nations Secretary-General Kurt Waldheim heralds the start of the ''International Year of the Child''. Many musicians donate to the ''Music for UNICEF Concert'' fund, among them ABBA, who write the song ...

Individual * FIFA World Youth Championship Golden Boot: 1979 *

Serie A Team of The Year The AIC Serie A Team of the Year (in Italian: ''Squadra dell’anno AIC'') is an annual award given to a set of eleven footballers in the top tier of Football in Italy, Italian football, the Serie A, who are considered to have performed the best d ...

: 1986 * Primera División Argentina Top Scorer: 1991 Apertura *

South American Footballer of the Year The Rey de América ("King of America"), often referred to as the South American Footballer of the Year, is an annual association football award presented to the best footballer in South America over the previous calendar year. The award was con ...

Second place: 1991 * South American team of the year: 1991 * J.League Top Scorer: 1993 *

J.League Best XI The J.League Best XI is an acknowledgement of the best eleven players in J.League. J1 League (1993–present) Multiple appearances Appearances by club Appearances by country * Only on two occasions there has been a full-Japanese Best X ...

: 1993

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River Plate * Primera División Argentina: 1996 Apertura, 1997 Clausura, 1997 Apertura, 1999 Apertura, 2002 Clausura, 2014 Final * Superfinal: 2013–14 *

1996 1996 was designated as: * International Year for the Eradication of Poverty Events January * January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

Intercontinental Cup Intercontinental Cup may refer to: Football * FIFA Intercontinental Cup, an association football competition involving the club champions of the six confederations of FIFA * Intercontinental Cup (1960–2004), an association football competition o ...

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Recopa Sudamericana The CONMEBOL Recopa Sudamericana (), also known as Recopa Sudamericana or CONMEBOL Recopa, and simply as Recopa (, ; "Winners' Cup"), is an annual international club Association football, football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 1988. It ...

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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 ...

San Lorenzo * Primera División Argentina: 2007 Clausura Al-Hilal *

: 2016–17 *

King's Cup King's Cup (incl. translations), may refer to: Sports Football * Copa del Rey, Spanish for "King's Cup," the main national knockout tournament in men's football * King's Cup (Bahrain), the premier national knockout football tournament * King's ...

2017 2017 was designated as the International Year of Sustainable Tourism for Development by the United Nations General Assembly. Events January * January 1 – Istanbul nightclub shooting: A gunman dressed as Santa Claus opens fire at the ...

2022–23 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen ...

; runner-up 2021–22 *

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2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

FIFA Club World Cup The FIFA Club World Cup (FIFA CWC) is an international men's association football competition organised by the ''Fédération Internationale de Football Association'' (FIFA), the sport's global sports governing body, governing body. The compe ...

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Al-Ittihad *

Saudi Super Cup The Saudi Super Cup () is the annual super cup tournament in Saudi Arabian football. Founded in 2013 as a two-team competition, the Super Cup has been contested by four teams since 2022: the winners and runners-up of the King's Cup and the Sa ...

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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 ...

Al-Nasr *

UAE League Cup The UAE League Cup () is a knockout tournament for clubs in the UAE Pro-League. The first edition of the tournament was played in the 2008–09 Etisalat Emirates Cup, 2008–2009 season. In the 2008–09 season, UAE League Cup replaced the UAE Fed ...

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2020–21 The dash is a punctuation mark consisting of a long horizontal line. It is similar in appearance to the hyphen but is longer and sometimes higher from the baseline. The most common versions are the endash , generally longer than the hyphen ...

UAE President's Cup The UAE President's Cup, or simply the President Cup, is a association football, football tournament that takes place in United Arab Emirates, between Football team, clubs in the UAE Pro League and the UAE First Division League. The winner qualifi ...

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Corinthians *

Campeonato Paulista The Campeonato Paulista Série A1, commonly known as Campeonato Paulista, nicknamed Paulistão, is the top-flight professional state football league in the Brazilian state of São Paulo. Run by the São Paulo State Football Federation (FPF), ...

2025 So far, the year has seen the continuation of major armed conflicts, including the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Sudanese civil war (2023–present), Sudanese civil war, and the Gaza war. Internal crises in Bangladesh post-resignation v ...

Individual * EFL League Two Manager of the Month: January 2005 * Saudi Professional League Manager of the Month: March 2022, May & June 2022 https://ostora-hd7.live/%d8%b3%d8%a8%d8%a8-%d8%a7%d8%b3%d8%aa%d8%a8%d8%b9%d8%a7%d8%af-%d9%85%d9%8a%d8%aa%d8%b1%d9%88%d9%81%d9%8a%d8%aa%d8%b4-%d9%88%d9%84%d9%88%d8%af%d9%8a-%d9%85%d9%86-%d9%84%d9%82%d8%a7%d8%a1-%d8%a7%d9%84/

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