Jorge Fossati - Wikipedia

Jorge Fossati

Personal information
Full name	Jorge Daniel Fossati Lurachi
Date of birth	(1952-11-22) 22 November 1952 (age 71)
Place of birth	Montevideo, Uruguay
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Peru (head coach)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1970–1971	Rampla Juniors
1972	Central Español
1973–1980	Peñarol	124	(0)
1980–1981	Independiente	20	(0)
1982	Millonarios
1982–1983	Olimpia	41	(0)
1983–1985	Green Cross Temuco
1985–1987	Rosario Central	16	(0)
1987–1988	Mandiyú de Corrientes	15	(0)
1988–1989	Avaí	19	(0)
1989–1990	Coritiba	21	(0)
International career
1975–1985	Uruguay	3	(0)
Managerial career
1993–1995	River Plate Montevideo
1996	Peñarol
1997	Cerro Porteño
1998–2001	Danubio
2001–2002	Colón de Santa Fe
2002–2003	Danubio
2003–2004	LDU Quito
2004–2006	Uruguay
2006–2007	Al-Sadd
2007–2008	Qatar
2009	LDU Quito
2009–2010	Internacional
2010	Al-Shabab
2010–2012	Al-Sadd
2012–2013	Cerro Porteño
2013	Al-Ain
2014–2015	Peñarol
2015–2016	Al Rayyan
2016–2017	Qatar
2019	Al-Ahli
2019–2021	River Plate Montevideo
2021–2022	Danubio
2023	Universitario de Deportes
2023–	Peru
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jorge Daniel Fossati Lurachi (born 22 November 1952 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan football manager and former player who played as a goalkeeper. He is the current manager of the Peru national team.

Club career[edit]

Managerial career[edit]

Having played as a goalkeeper during his footballing tenure, Fossati states that he had the opportunity to view matches through the perspective of a spectator and the ability to interpret the plays. He began coaching his teammates as a goalkeeper, under the supervision of the coach. As Fossati aged, he started to write analyses of the games and coaches, noting which facets he would have adjusted.^[2]

Fossati became manager of the Uruguay national team in 2004,^[3] signing at a time in which the team was about to miss qualifying to the 2006 World Cup. He managed to take Uruguay out of the lower places in the qualifying table and into the inter-confederation play-off spot. Despite his and the players' efforts, Uruguay lost the play-off against Australia on penalties. Fossati was then replaced as manager of Uruguay by Óscar Tabárez.

He next coached Al-SaddinQatar and, after winning all four domestic titles with them, was unveiled as the new Qatari national team manager in 2007.^[4] In late 2008, it was announced that Fossati would undergo surgery. Subsequently, the Qatar FA ended their cooperation with him, who supposedly needed too long to recover from surgery.

In 2009, he signed with LDU Quito from Ecuador to manage the team for the second time, replacing Edgardo Bauza. Fossati helped LDU Quito win the Recopa Sudamericana 2009 matches against Sport Club InternacionaldePorto Alegre. LDU Quito won both games of the Recopa 1–0 and 3–0, respectively. This gave LDU Quito their second international title. In December 2009, Fossati and LDU won the Copa Sudamericana after defeating Fluminense 5-4 on aggregate in the finals.

After Internacional and Mário Sergio parted ways, as per their previous agreement, the Brazilian club reached a deal with Fossati. On 13 December 2009, he joined Internacional for one year. Following negative results, he was fired on 28 May 2010. Fossati left Internacional in the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores after defeating reigning champions Estudiantes de La Plata in the quarter-finals; Internacional would go on to win the Libertadores.

After that, he was named as head coach of Al-Shabab and nearly reached that season's AFC Champions League final with the team. Fossati was sacked by Al-Shabab in December 2010, but returned for another crack at the continental title, after being put in charge of Al-Sadd for a second time between 2010 and 2012, during which he won the 2011 AFC Champions League and reached the semi-finals of the 2011 FIFA Club World Cup. Fossati left Al-Sadd on 19 May 2012 and joined Club Cerro Porteño.

On 26 July 2013, he signed a two years contract with United Arab Emirates champions Al Ain to replace Cosmin Olăroiu.

He became coach of the Qatar national football team in 2016. Like Fossati, all of the football management of 'The Maroons' were Uruguayan.

In June 2019, the River Plate Athletic Club of Uruguay asked for help, and that the club take command, in order to resurface it, in four months it led the club to a significant improvement in football.