Marcelo Barticciotto

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Marcelo Barticciotto
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Full name	Marcelo Pablo Barticciotto Cicaré
Date of birth	January 1, 1967 (1967-01-01) (age 41)
Place of birth	Avellaneda , Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Playing position	Forward (retired)
Club information
Current club	U. de Concepción (manager)
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1987-1988 1988-1992 1993-1994 1995 1996-2002	Huracán Colo-Colo Club América Universidad Católica Colo-Colo
Teams managed
2007-	U. de Concepción
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Marcelo Pablo Barticciotto Cicaré (born January 1, 1967 in Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is a retired footballer, who currently is the manager for Chilean club U. de Concepción. After playing most of his career in Chile, Barticciotto nationalized himself Chilean.

1 Club Career
2 Managerial Career
3 Titles
4 References

[edit] Club Career

In 1987, Barticciotto made his professional debut with Huracán of the National B Division in Argentina.

Barticciotto arrived to Chilean club Colo-Colo in 1988, where he would become an idol to supporters. Barticciotto won seven national championships and three international championships in twelve years with the club. The most important of the those championships was the Copa Libertadores 1991, where he scored three goals. This Colo-Colo team is the only one in Chilean football history to win the Copa Libertadores.

After these accomplishments, Barticciotto signed for Club América in Mexico. However, he did not experience the same form he had in Chile and in 1995 returned to Chile to sign for Colo-Colo's rival Universidad Católica. His time here was even shorter. In a game against his old team, Colo-Colo, Barticciotto scored the lone goal of the match which eliminated Colo-Colo from the Copa Libertadores tournament of the same year. Before the game, Barticciotto had stated in an interview that he did not want to score a goal against his former team but wanted to play a very good game. Therefore when he scored the goal he did not celebrate it. Afterwards he reiterated that he wished he did not score the goal. ^[1] Of course there was backlash from these comments and his actions and this ultimately led to his dismissal from the team.

In 1996, Barticciotto made his return to Colo-Colo. He regained his form and was an important part of the reason that Colo-Colo would win three straight championships from 1996-1998. In his final season, 2002, Colo-Colo would go on to win his seventh championship but was not a fixture in the starting line-up for most of the season.

On January 12, 2003 he retired in front of more than fifty thousands spectators in Colo-Colo's stadium, Estadio Monumental David Arellano. He retired having won the second most championships by a Colo-Colo player, behind only Luis Mena who has nine.

[edit] Managerial Career

Barticciotto was hired by U. de Concepción to be the manager in 2007. Barticciotto inherited a team that was on the verge of relegaion and took them to the final of the 2007 Clausura tournament against none other than - Colo-Colo.

[edit] Titles

Season	Club	Title
1989	Colo-Colo	Primera Division Chile Champion
1990	Colo-Colo	Primera Division Chile Champion
1991	Colo-Colo	Primera Division Chile Champion
1991	Colo-Colo	Copa Libertadores Champion
1992	Colo-Colo	Recopa Sudamericana Champion
1992	Colo-Colo	Copa Interamericana Champion
1996	Colo-Colo	Primera Division Chile Champion
1997 Clausura	Colo-Colo	Primera Division Chile Champion
1998	Colo-Colo	Primera Division Chile Champion
2002 Clausura	Colo-Colo	Primera Division Chile Champion