Ricardo Ferretti de Oliveira (born 22 February 1954), also known as Tuca Ferretti, is a Brazilian-Mexican professional football

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and former player. As a player, Ferretti was an

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known for his mobility, powerful right shot and leadership. He was a free kick specialist and spent most of his playing career with

Pumas UNAM Club Universidad Nacional, A.C., commonly referred to as UNAM, is a professional football club based in Ciudad Universitaria of Mexico City, Mexico. The club competes in the Liga MX, the top division in the Mexican football league system. Foun ...

. He also played for Botafogo,

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and Bonsucesso in his native Brazil, and

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, Neza,

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and

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in Mexico. As a manager, he has had three stints with

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, two with

, and has also managed

, Guadalajara and Monarcas Morelia. He is one of two managers in Mexican football history to manage 1,000 league matches, the other being Ignacio Trelles. He has also served as interim coach of the

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twice, winning the CONCACAF Cup in 2015.

Career

Early career

After retiring as a player, Ferretti started to work as a football coach in 1991 with Pumas UNAM. In 1996, he moved to Guadalajara where he won the league championship in 1997, and a runner-up position in 1998. With Chivas he failed to qualify for the play-offs only once in eight seasons. In 2000, he moved to Tigres UANL, a team that constantly failed to qualify for the play-offs, despite having a squad with many star players, including many from the

, such as

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and Luis Hernández, and from other national teams as well. In his first year, Ferretti qualified the team for the play-offs, and a season later he made them runners-up. He stayed with Tigres until 2003, where his constant success and the good economic standing of the team combined to make Ferretti one of the best paid coaches of the time. However, that year's Clausura saw the first ever semi-final Clásico Regiomontano, in which Tigres played their arch-rival Rayados. Both teams were favorites for the championship, and the first game started well for Tigres, but the players' mistakes combined to give Rayados a 4–1 victory on the first leg, and the second leg was made insignificant. Because of the team's failure to defeat their arch-rival in the semi-finals, the team decided not to renew the coach's contract. Ferretti then moved on to coach Toluca for the Apertura 2003. However, in that season, Tigres signed

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as coach, but because of the similarity in the style of play and the almost insignificant change to the squad's roster, local media in

always rumored that Ferretti coached Tigres behind Pumpido. Tigres became runner-up again that season, and won a semi-final against Ferretti's Toluca. In 2004, due to personal differences with José Cardozo, and despite qualifying for the play-offs in all his seasons in Toluca, Ferretti was separated from the team. He then moved on to coach Morelia, with mixed success but did help save the team from relegation.

Tigres UANL

On January 1, 2006, Ferretti was appointed as coach for the a second time. Under his guidance, Tigres won the InterLiga, qualifying the team to the Copa Libertadores de América, and then to the play-offs of that tournament. However, Tigres failed to qualify for the Clausura 2006 playoffs, and to advance in the Libertadores. On June 30, 2006, because of this failure, Tigres decided to cease the relationship.

Pumas UNAM

On May 23, 2006, he signed again with Pumas and led them to yet another final. This time against Atlante, a team which had endured a difficult yet brilliant season. Pumas came in as underdogs due to the fact they didn't have a great season but they shined in the playoffs using home-field advantage to the full extent. They became a nightmare for other teams inside Ciudad Universitaria. So much that on the first leg of the semi-finals against No.1 seed Santos, they beat them to the rhythm of 3–0. No team during the season had scored so much on Santos. But in the first leg of the final, Pumas couldn't deliver on Atlante. On the final's second leg, Pumas fell to them with a score of 2–1. The game ended with the game winner shot from outside the box. In the 2009 season, Ferretti took Pumas back to the finals after a lot of comebacks in the playoffs. They were the underdogs yet again but beat Pachuca (who had beaten them in the regular season 2–1) in extra time 3–2, giving them their 6th title in its team's history.

Tigres UANL

After Pumas was eliminated in the 2010 playoffs, Ferretti quit as manager due to a huge disappointment. He was quickly signed as coach to Tigres. Ferretti led Tigres to win Apertura 2011 league title after defeating Santos Laguna, the first title for Tigres in 29 years. He was awarded best manager of the tournament for the first time in his career. On April 9, 2014, Tigres won the Clausura 2014 Copa MX after defeating Alebrijes de Oaxaca 3-0 in the final. Tigres lost Morelia in the inaugural Supercopa MX after losing 5–4 on aggregate. Tigres made it to the final of the Apertura 2014 but lost to América 3-1 on aggregate . In July 2015, Ferretti guided Tigres to the 2015 Copa Libertadores final, becoming the third Mexican team to do so. Tigres lost to River Plate 3–0 on aggregate. Ferretti later led Tigres to their fourth league title, his second with the team, after defeating his former club

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on penalty kicks. Later he led Tigres to the 2015–16 CONCACAF Champions League final after defeating Querétaro but lost to América. Tigres later qualified to the playoffs in eight place. They ended up losing to their city rival

in the quarterfinals. During the preseason, Tigres won the Campeón de Campeones after defeating

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1–0. Tigres qualified to the play-offs for the fifth straight season after beating

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in an away game 1–0. Tigres ended up winning their fifth league title after defeating América on penalty kicks, the match was also Ferretti's 1,000th league match as a manager in Mexico. Ferretti became the first manager to win five league titles in the short tournament era. Ferrett's final match as manager of Tigres ended in a 1-0 loss to

on May 8, 2021, ending his 11-year run at the helm.

FC Juárez

On 3 June 2021, Ferretti was appointed manager of Juárez. On 6 May 2022, Ferretti and Juárez parted ways in amicable terms.

Mexico

After Miguel Herrera was fired for an incident off the field, Ferretti was named the interim manager for

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. Ferretti previously stated various times he did not want to manage the Mexico national team but agreed to manage the team until the

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hired a new manager. In his interim process, Mexico drew against Trinidad & Tobago and

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in friendlies, won the 2015 CONCACAF Cup against the

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to qualify for the

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, and won his farewell match, a friendly against

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. Following Juan Carlos Osorio's departure from the Mexico national team following the

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, Ferretti was once again called up to be the interim manager for friendly matches against

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, the

, Costa Rica, and

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Managerial statistics

Includes matches from Liga MX,

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, Campeon de Campeones, Supercopa MX,

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, Superliga, Interliga

Honours

Player

UNAM * Mexican Primera División: 1980–81, 1990–91 *

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: 1980,

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* Copa Interamericana: 1980 Toluca * Copa México: 1988–89 Individual * Mexican Primera División Best Winger: 1980–81

Manager

Guadalajara * Mexican Primera División: Verano 1997 Toluca *

2003 File:2003 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: The crew of STS-107 perished when the Space Shuttle Columbia Space Shuttle Columbia disaster, disintegrated during reentry into Atmosphere of Earth, Earth's atmosphere; SARS became an 2002– ...

* Campeón de Campeones: 2003 UNAM * Mexican Primera División: Clausura 2009 Tigres UANL * Liga MX: Apertura 2011,

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, Apertura 2016, Apertura 2017, Clausura 2019 *

: Clausura 2014 * Campeón de Campeones: 2016,

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, 2018 * Interliga: 2006 *

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: 2018 Mexico * CONCACAF Cup:

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Individual * Mexican Primera División Best Manager: 1996–97, Clausura 2009, Clausura 2011, Apertura 2011 * Liga MX Best XI Manager: Apertura 2017

Notes

References

External links

Profile at Globo Esporte's FutpediaProfile at BDFA.com.arProfile at Mediotiempo.com
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