Gabriel Ochoa Uribe

Gabriel Ochoa Uribe
Personal information
Date of birth	November 20, 1929 (1929-11-20) (age 82)
Place of birth	Sopetrán, Colombia
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
1946-1948	América de Cali
1949-1953	Millonarios
1953-1955	América Football Club
1955-1958	Millonarios
Teams managed
1958-1960	Millonarios
1961-1964	Millonarios
1966	Santa Fe
1970-1977	Millonarios
1979-1991	América de Cali
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of September 2008. † Appearances (Goals).

Gabriel Ochoa Uribe (born November 20 in Sopetrán) is a former Colombian football player and manager. He won four league titles and the Copa Colombia with Millonarios as a player and a remarkable 14 league titles as a manager making him the most successful Colombian coach of all time.^[1]

1 Playing career
2 Managerial career
3 Titles as a player
4 Titles as a manager
5 References
6 External links

Playing career

Ochoa Uribe started his playing career at the age of 17 in 1946, his first club was América de Cali. In 1959 he joined Millonarios where he won four league titles playing alongside the great Alfredo di Stéfano

In 1953 he joined Brazilian side América and returned to Millonarios in 1955, he played until 1958 when he took over as manager of Millonarios.

Managerial career

In his first two spells as manager of Millonarios Ochoa Uribe led them to four league titles. He also had a short spell coaching the Colombia national team.

In 1966 he coached Santa Fe, leading them to the Colombian championship and making them the first Colombian team ever to reach the semi-finals of Copa Libertadores.

He returned to Millonarios between 1970 and 1977, he won his tenth league title with the club as player and coach with the 1972 league championship.

In 1979 he became manager of América de Cali, he led them to 7 league championships, they were runners-up in the Copa Libertadores three times consecutively (1985, 1986, 1987). He retired in 1991.