Sebastián Becaccece
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Sebastián Beccacece | ||
| Date of birth | December 17, 1980 | ||
| Place of birth | Rosario, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Defender | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Years | Team | ||
| 1995-2001 | Juan XXIII | ||
Sebastián Beccacece (born December 17, 1980 in Rosario, Argentina) is a football assistant coach and former youth player. He currently is Jorge Sampaoli´s assistant manager in the Chile national football team.
Playing career
Beccacece played for Argentinian lower division club Juan XXIII as a full-back without much success and after a few years he decided to quit playing and studying to become a football coach and manager.
Coaching
His first professional opportunity as a coach came in the early 2000s when he was assigned to coach Newell's Old Boys 1989/1990 youth category.
Jorge Sampaoli
In 2003 Claudio Vivas, then Marcelo Bielsa’s assistant manager, introduced Beccacece to Jorge Sampaoli, and unknown young manager who was in charge of the Peruvian team Sport Boys from Callao and needed an assistant to go to Peru with him. They both liked each other and Sampaoli offered him his first job in a first division team when Beccacece was only 22 years old. They have been together ever since, and Beccacece has stayed besides Sampaoli thru his spells in several different teams and 3 different countries. On July 2010 after the FIFA World Cup, Beccacece received a call from Marcelo Bielsa who offered him a job as one of his assistants in Chile’s National team. Out of loyalty towards Sampaoli, Beccacece respectfully declined the offer and remained as Sampaoli’s Assistant in Emelec.
When Sampaoli was offered the coaching job at one of the most successful Chilean teams, Universidad de Chile, Becaccece became his assistant there too. Together they had a triumphant first half of the season, arriving second in the regular phase, and thriving through the playoffs, overcoming an adverse 0-2 result in the first leg of the final, and winning 4-1 in the second leg, to achieve the Apertura Title