Ricardo Ferretti

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Ricardo Ferrretti de Olveira (born February 22, 1954 in Brazil) is a football coach, who has coached Pumas UNAM, Chivas, UANL Tigres, Toluca, and Morelia. He is nicknamed "El Tuca", and is known for his smoking and his aggressive style on the bench.

After retiring as a player, Ferretti started to work as a football coach in 1995 with Pumas UNAM. In 1996 he moved to Chivas, where he had his most successes, including a championship in 1997, and a runner-up position in 1998. With Chivas he failed to qualify to play-offs only one season of the 8 he coached them.

In 2000 he moved to UANL Tigres, a team that constantly failed to qualify to play-offs, despite having a squad with many star players, including many from the Mexican National Team, such as Jorge Campos and Luis Hernandez, and from other national teams as well. In his first year, Ferretti qualified the team to play-offs, and a season later, he made them runner-ups.

He stayed in 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 2003 saw the first ever semi-final Clásico Regiomontano, in which Tigres played their arch-rival Rayados. Both teams where favorites for the championship, and the first game started well for Tigres, but the player's 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 the arch-rival in semi-finals, the team decided not to renew the coach's contract.

Ferretti then moved to coach Toluca for the Apertura 2003.

However, on that season, Tigres signed Nery Pumpido as coach, but because of the similiraty 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 the player José Cardozo, and despite qualifying for play-offs in all his seasons in Toluca, Ferretti was separated from the team. He then moved to coach Morelia having average success.

In 2006, Tigres asked him to return to coach the team. He won the InterLiga, qualifying the team to the Copa Libertadores de América, and then to the play-offs of that tournament. However, he failed to qualify Tigres to the Clausura 2006 playoffs, and to advance in the Libertadores. Because of this failure, Tigres decided to cease the relationship.

In May 23, 2006 he signed again with Pumas, where he returns for a second time.