Sebastián Beccacece

Sebastián Beccacece (born December 17, 1980 in Rosario, Argentina) is an Argentine football manager, currently coaching Universidad de Chile.

Club 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 career

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 late 2002 Claudio Vivas, then Marcelo Bielsa’s assistant manager, introduced Beccacece to Jorge Sampaoli, an 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.^[1] They got along well together 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 beside Sampaoli through 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 Chilean team Universidad de Chile, Beccacece 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

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