Ricardo Ferretti

This name uses Portuguese naming customs. The first or maternal family name is Ferreti and the second or paternal family name is de Oliveira.
Ricardo Ferretti

Ferretti in 2012
Personal information
Full name Ricardo Ferretti de Oliveira
Date of birth (1954-02-22) 22 February 1954
Place of birth Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Playing position Midfielder
Club information
Current team
 UANL (manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1971–1975 Botafogo
1975–1976 Vasco da Gama
1976–1977 Boncucesso
1977–1978 Atlas 26 (8)
1978–1985 UNAM 240 (108)
1985–1986 Neza
1986–1987 Monterrey 31 (9)
1988–1990 Toluca 104 (44)
1990–1991 UNAM 43 (7)
Teams managed
1991–1996 UNAM
1996–2000 Guadalajara
2000–2003 UANL
2003–2004 Toluca
2005 Morelia
2006 UANL
2006–2010 UNAM
2010– UANL
2015 Mexico (interim)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)

Ricardo Ferretti de Oliveira (born 22 February 1954) is a Brazilian former professional footballer and current manager of Liga MX club Tigres UANL. Ferretti has held Mexican citizenship since 2006. He is commonly referred to by his nickname Tuca.

Ferretti as a player was a multifunctional midfielder with a powerful right shot and ability to score and assist goals. He was deployed as a central midfielder, attacking midfielder and winger. He spent most of his playing career with Pumas UNAM. He also played for Botafogo, Vasco da Gama and Bonsucesso in his native Brazil, and Atlas, Toros Neza, Monterrey and Toluca in Mexico.

As a manager, he has had three separate stints with Tigres UANL, two with Pumas UNAM, and has also managed Toluca, Guadalajara and Monarcas Morelia. He is known for his ordered style focused on possession, the strict discipline he demands from his players and his aggressiveness on the bench.

In 2015, between 20 August and October 13th, Ferretti served for four matches as interim manager of Mexico. He won the 2015 CONCACAF Cup against the United States on October 10, 2015 at the Rose Bowl of Pasadena, California.

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 Mexico national team, such as Jorge Campos 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 Nery Pumpido 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 Monterrey 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.

In 2006, Tigres asked him to return to coach the team. 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. Because of this failure, Tigres decided to cease the relationship.

On May 23, 2006 he signed again with Pumas and led them to yet another final.[1] 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.

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. The third time around was the charm for Ferretti, as he led Tigres to win Apertura 2011 over Santos Laguna, the third title for Tigres and first in 29 years. On April 9, 2014, Tigres won the Clausura 2014 Copa MX against Alebrijes de Oaxaca by 3-0 making Ferretti the first coach in Mexico to win league and cup titles with the same team. It was under the command of Ferritti, in July 2015, that the Tigres became the third Mexican team ever to play the finals of the Copa Libertadores.

Mexico

On 20 August 2015, Ricardo Ferretti was named as the interim coach for Mexico. [2] In his interim process, he tied in friendly matches against Trinidad & Tobago and Argentina, won the 2015 CONCACAF Cup against the U.S. on October 10, 2015 at the Rose Bowl of Pasadena, California and won his farewell match, a friendly against Panama

Honours

Player

UNAM
Toluca

Manager

Club

Guadalajara
Toluca
UNAM
UANL

International

Mexico

Individual

References

  1. ↑ http://clubpumasunam.com/
  2. ↑ http://www.espnfc.co.uk/mexico/story/2573562/tigres-ricardo-tuca-ferretti-named-interim-mexico-coach

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