Eduardo Lara

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Eduardo Lara is a Colombian football manager, currently in charge of the Colombia national under-20 football team as well as the Under 17s.

Eduardo Lara is the current Colombian youth coach who coaches all levels of the Youth NT after Reynaldo Rueda was promoted to coaching the senior team. Lara is a very strict man and has left many players off the youth squads.Even important players like Dayro Moreno and currently 4 starters of the Under 17 team that were suppose to go to the Under 17 World Cup in Korea but were kicked off the team for drinking.

He lead Colombian under 20s in 2005 to win the Sudamericana and to the World Cup were they lost in the 1/4 finals to Argentina the eventual Champions. In 2007 his under 20s failed to make it to the World Cup but qualified the under 17s to the World Cup in Korea by finishing 2nd in the Sudamericana by goal difference to Brasil.

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