Osvaldo Ardiles
Osvaldo Ardiles was born in Bell Ville, Córdoba Province, Argentina on August 3rd, 1952 and is the Soccer Coach. At the age of 71, Osvaldo Ardiles biography, profession, age, height, weight, eye color, hair color, build, measurements, education, career, dating/affair, family, news updates, and networth are available.
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Osvaldo César Ardiles (born 3 August 1952), also known in Britain as Ossie Ardiles, is a football manager, pundit, and former midfielder who played for Argentina's national team.
The Ossie Ardiles Soccer School in the United Kingdom now runs his own football academy, the Ossie Ardiles Soccer School. Ardiles, a ferocious and skilled midfielder, rose to prominence in England, alongside Glenn Hoddle and compatriot Ricardo Villa as a Tottenham Hotspur player.
Following the outbreak of the Falklands War in 1982, he left England on loan, thereby missing the bulk of the 1982–83 English season. Ardiles began his coaching career in England, working Swindon Town, Newcastle United, and West Bromwich Albion before returning to Tottenham to become Argentina's first Premier League boss.
He appeared in several games as Spurs' manager in the mid-1990s, utilizing a system that hadn't been used in English football since the 1950s.
Ardiles has worked in Mexico, Croatia, Japan, Syria, Saudi Arabia, Malaysia, Paraguay, and his homeland Argentina. In Ireland, he is a pundit for RTÉ Sport.
Personal life
In December 1973, he married Silvia Navarro.
Ardiles and Ricardo Villa were involved in a car crash in the Falkland Islands in January 2014 during Camilo Antolini's 30 for 30 documentary White, Blue and White's filming. Ardiles sustained minor injuries in the crash and required more than 20 stitches in his head.
Club career
Ardiles was born in Córdoba and spent time at Instituto de Córdoba from a young age. Ardiles, a youngster, played football on the streets and was given the nickname Pitón (python) by his brother because of his snake-like dribbling abilities. In 1974, he was named El Gráfico's best player of the interior, but he renounced his law degree in order to play professional football.
He has also played for Club Atlético Belgrano and Huracán. After the 1978 World Cup, he travelled to England to play for Tottenham Hotspur, where he spent ten seasons.
In his third season (1980–81), he was a contributor to Tottenham Hotspur's FA Cup, as well as the rest of the Tottenham players, "Ossie's Dream." He was instrumental in another FA Cup triumph the following year, but did not participate in the final because it had already been decided with Spurs' administration that he would leave early to join Argentina's 1982 World Cup team. He wore the number 1 shirt at the tournament, as Argentina's policy at the time was to identify their participants alphabetically by surname, with an exception made so Diego Maradona could wear his preferred number 10.
It became difficult for him to return to White Hart Lane in France after the Falklands War between Britain and Argentina, and it was on loan to Paris Saint-Germain. He returned to Tottenham after one season in Paris, assisting the club in winning the UEFA Cup in 1984 (coming as a replacement in the second leg of the final). He was caretaker coach under caretaker boss Doug Livermore of Tottenham during the resignation of David Pleat and the appointment of Terry Venables in the autumn of 1987. Ardiles left Spurs in 1988. He played for Blackburn Rovers, Queens Park Rangers, and Swindon Town before being appointed as the head of Swindon Town in 1987. He appeared with the Fort Lauderdale Strikers in 1989 to play in the American Soccer League.
Ardiles, as well as fellow countryman Ricardo Villa, were inducted into the Tottenham Hotspur Hall of Fame on February 7th.
International career
Ardiles was called up by boss César Luis Menotti in 1975 to the Argentina senior team. In 1978, he was a member of the World Cup winning squad.
Management career
Ardiles descended into football with second division Swindon Town after Lou Macari resigned to join West Ham in July 1989. With a new "Samba style" that saw the Town playing attacking football, he delighted fans. Ardiles' latest "diamond combination" was used as part of the change: a 4–4–2 design with left-sided, right-sided, attacking and defensive midfielders.
Ardiles led Swindon to their highest-ever league finish in the second division, ten months after he had joined. The fans paid their respects to Blackburn in the first leg of the play-off semi-finals with a tickertape reception. Swindon went on to win promotion to the top flight for the first time in their history, defeating Sunderland in the Play-Off Final but being banned from them ten days later by the Football League for irregular payments to players.
Ardiles was advised to sell players to keep the team alive, and Wembley's first big-money departure was Alan McLoughlin. Swindon's form had been tarnished by their pre-season woes, but their form had to be discarded. Relegation was at an end of February, and when Newcastle offered Ardiles the opportunity to be their new manager, he accepted, becoming the club's first foreign manager. His time on Tyneside was not fruitful, and he lasted 12 months in the role before being dismissed, with the Magpies currently in last place, but they did not have peace under new manager Kevin Keegan.
Ardiles fired Bobby Gould as the head of West Bromwich Albion, who had just missed out on the third division playoffs in 1991–92. Ardiles guided Albion to victory over Port Vale in the Division Two playoff final at the end of the 1992–93 season. He walked out of the Hawthorns to rejoin his former manager Tottenham Hotspur, but his administration was nowhere near as good as his time as a player. Tottenham finished 15th in the Premiership, and Ardiles was fired in October 1994 after Tottenham languishing in the bottom half of the Premier League, despite the costly acquisition of Jürgen Klinsmann and Ilie Dumitrescu in the 1994 close season. They had just been suspended for financial fraud committed during the late 1980s: they were suspended for one year in the FA Cup, a £600,000 fine, and 12 league points were deducted. The fine was later reduced to a £1.5 million fine and six points deducted, but the FA Cup ban and points deduction were later quashed.
Ardiles became J. V.A. Ardiles was the J. Commodore. The Yokohama F. Marinos were established in January 2000 in January 2000, but they were fired in June 2001 after a slow start to the season. Ardiles was fired in July 2005 after a nine-game winless streak. He coached Tokyo Verdy from 2003 to 2005, with whom he won the 2004 Emperor's Cup. In mid-2006, he moved to Israel to coach Beitar Jerusalem, from which he resigned after only a few months in office on October 18, 2006, due to a major difference of opinion with the club's board of directors. He was appointed coach Atlético Huracán in September 2007, a small change, before resigning at the end of the Apertura 2007.
He joined Cerro Porte's in May 2008 but was fired in August of the same year after a string of poor performances and was replaced by Pedro Troglio.
Media career
Ardiles was recruited by RTÉ Sport for their team of pundits ahead of the 2010 FIFA World Cup in South Africa. For the 2014 FIFA World Cup in Brazil, he returned to RTÉ's team.
In the 1981 World War II film Escape to Victory, Ardiles played Carlos Rey.