Julio Daniel Asad
Argentinian association football player and association football manager
About Julio Daniel Asad
Born 1953. Julio Daniel Asad is an Argentine association football player and association football coach.
Julio Daniel Asad (; born 7 June 1953) is an Argentine former football player and manager. He played as a midfielder, and participated with Argentina in the 1975 Copa América.
Asad was nicknamed "El Turco" due to his Syrian and Lebanese ethnicity. In Argentina, Arabs were mistakenly called Turks, since they came to Argentina with Ottoman Turkish documents in the 1900s. After he retired from professional football, he became a manager. He has coached clubs in Argentina, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, and El Salvador.
He is the uncle of Omar Asad, who was also a successful player for Vélez in the 1990s.
Honours
Manager Club Deportivo Riestra Champion: 1985
Defensores de Belgrano Champions: 1991–92
Club Leandro N. Alem Champions: Clausura 1996
Centro Deportivo Olmedo Champions: 2000
Club Deportivo Cuenca Champions: 2004
Al-Nassr Federation Cup: 2007
Personal Coach Of The Year in Ecuador: 2000, 2001 Coach Of The Year in Saudi Arabia: 2003
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Argentinian association football player and association football manager
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Julio Daniel Asad was born on 7 June 1953 in Buenos Aires.
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Julio Daniel Asad is an association football player and association football coach.
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