Claudio Brizuela

Claudio Daniel Brizuela (born 30 August 1968) is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a forward.

Career Brizuela played for clubs of Argentina, Chile, México, Bolivia, Ecuador, Venezuela and Panamá. After retiring, he worked as a sporting director at Deportivo Merlo during the 2005–06 season, before being a manager of Sportivo Barracas in 2006.

Brizuela was later a youth coordinator at Atlas, and subsequently worked as a sporting manager at Olmedo in 2010. He returned to his home country with Racing Club in the following year, as a technical secretary.

Brizuela left Racing in the end of 2012, and joined San Lorenzo's intake area in the following year. He was also a director of Udinese's project in Argentina in 2014, and worked at Rosario Central in 2015, also in the intake area.

In 2022, after six years at River Plate's intake area, Brizuela joined José Pékerman's staff at the Venezuela national team, as a head scout. In December of that year, he returned to managerial duties after taking over Palmaflor del Trópico in Bolivia.

On 7 May 2023, Brizuela resigned from Palmaflor.