Cooper Hector - Argentine coach and formerA football player who currently coaches the Egyptian national football team. He was already 61 years old, but so far the athlete does not think about how to end his coaching career. When Cooper Hector left the field, he played in the position of the central defender.
Cooper Hector was not considered a star of the first magnitude,when I was a player. He was born on November 16, 1955 in the Argentine city of Chabas. To build a football career, soon moved closer to the capital. There he joined the club "Ferrocaril Oeste", with which almost all of his playing career will be connected.
However, as already mentioned earlier, Cooper was notstar player or great talent, so he could make his debut in the club only at the age of 21, that is, in 1976. After only five matches for his native club, the athlete moved to Independiente Rivadavia, but did not stay there for long. For the season he went on the field six times, noted two goals and in 1978 returned to "Ferrocaril" to continue his career and become a legend of the club.
For ten years, the footballer played forFerrocaril Oeste, having entered the field 424 times and scored 24 years. Cooper Ector became a real star of the club, but it is worth remembering that FC had an extremely small size and usually performed in the second division. And only in 1988, when he was already 33 years old, did Cooper say goodbye to his native club and signed a four-year contract with Huracan.
Несмотря на свой почетный возраст, аргентинский The footballer was a regular player of the starting lineup and in four years he played 132 matches, marking 8 goals. And when his contract came to an end, in 1992 he announced that he was ending his football career.
As for the national team of Argentina, in it healmost never appeared. The Argentinean footballer was called to the national team only three times in 1984, in the very heyday of the game for Ferrocaril, but after that he did not get into the Argentine bid.
Please note that in 1992 footballlife for Cooper is not over, as he decided to pursue a career as a coach. Having passed the necessary training, the athlete received a coaching license. In the summer of 1993, he took the position of head coach at Huracan, that is, at the club where he spent the last four years of his career as a player.
Эктор Купер – тренер, который сразу же смог show an impressive result. He spent only two seasons in Huracan, but in the first one he practically led the club to the championship. “Huracan” lost only one point to “Independiente” and finished the race in second place. The next season was no longer so successful and spoiled the statistics for the novice coach, who left the club in the summer of 1995 with 21 wins, 19 draws and 23 defeats. However, it cannot be said that after that Cooper went down, another Argentinean club Lanus signed a contract with him.
Ector Cooper, whose biography is reviewed inarticle spent the last two years in Argentina, namely in the "Lanus". This time, his results were more impressive, but he did not manage to win the Argentine Championship. But his team won the CONMEBALL Cup, the second most prestigious in South America after the Libertadores Cup. It was the club’s first victory in this tournament and Cooper's first trophy as a coach.
His results in Argentina did not remainunnoticed, so in the summer of 1997, Ector received an invitation from the Spanish "Mallorca", which he gladly accepted, thereby bidding farewell to Argentinean football.
Итак, новый клуб, который возглавил Эктор Купер, - "Mallorca". What could he achieve in Europe? As in previous cases, in the Spanish club, Ector spent two seasons, further improving his performance. In addition, in 1998, he was able to take the club to the Spanish Cup final, where the team lost on penalties to the great Barcelona. The following season, Mallorca was able to participate in the Spanish Super Cup, which she won, as well as in the UEFA Cup Winners Cup, in which she reached the final, but lost to the Italian Lazio.
Каждый раз Эктор Купер, достижения которого gradually accumulated, performed a little better than the previous one. So with the "Valencia" happened the same thing. It was under him that the “Bats” reached a completely new level. In his very first year of working with this team, Cooper won the Spanish Super Cup, beating Barcelona. In the same year, he brought Valencia to the Champions League final - the most prestigious club tournament in Europe, where he lost to Real Madrid. And the next year, Cooper repeated the achievement, but again failed to win, his team lost this time on a penalty kick in Bayern Munich.
It would seem that the career of a coach is in full swing, andIn the near future it will be difficult to count which trophies will be collected by Hector Cooper. Valencia, however, was the last club with which he won anything. Turning to Inter, Cooper showed quite impressive results, winning 57 out of 110 matches in two years - this is his best result for a club career. But at the same time, he was able to achieve more or less impressive successes only in the second season, when his team took second place in the Italian Championship, losing to Juventus Turin. For the first time, Cooper stayed for the third season, but was fired six weeks after his start. After that, Hector Cooper, whose career went downhill, decided to take a break.
A year later, Cooper accepted the offer of "Mallorca"lead the club again, but it was a completely different team, with which in two years he was able to win only 13 of 54 matches. But as it turned out, it was not the worst result.
Летом 2007 года тренер подписал контракт с "Betis", another Spanish club from the bottom of the table. But he couldn’t bring something new, in fourteen matches the team won only two victories. Naturally, he was pretty quickly fired.
In the spring of 2008, Cooper was able to find a job inItalian Parma, but even there his results left much to be desired: the coach again led the team to only two wins in ten games, so he was fired at the end of the season.
After a series of setbacks with clubs, Hector Cooper decidedtry yourself in teams by accepting an offer from Georgia. However, it all ended very badly. We can safely say that it was a complete failure and the worst result in the career of a coach. Under his command, the Georgians played 16 matches, in which a draw outcome was observed in four matches, and only one was won. Already in October 2009, Cooper was fired, after which he returned to work as a coach in clubs.
Less than a month after breaking upGeorgian national team Cooper signed a contract with the Greek club "Aris". It was there that he managed to prove to everyone that he was capable of something else. In the very first year, Cooper managed to lead not the strongest team to the final of the Greek Cup, where, unfortunately, she lost to one of the country's strongest clubs, Panathinaikos. The second season was not so successful, so in the winter of 2011, Cooper left his post, and in the summer of 2011 he returned to Spain and headed the local Racing.
In Racing, the worst career period happenedcoach, but only in relation to clubs, not teams. In 13 matches, the team scored 9 points, scoring just one victory, so in November 2011 the coach was left without work.
A month later, he found a job in Turkish“Orduspore”, where he worked for almost two years and showed rather average results with 14 wins in 50 matches. As a result, Cooper was still fired in April 2013 and was out of work until the autumn of that year.
In the fall, the trainer invited an Arab clubAl-Wasl, but rather quickly became disillusioned with his decision. Cooper was able to bring the team only 15 points in 16 matches, which is why he was fired already in March 2014 before the end of the season. Al-Wasl was the last club coached by Cooper to date. The fact is that in 2015 he returned to work with the national teams, but this time he was lucky.
Купер целый год находился без работы, так как не I could find an employer with whom I would agree on conditions that suit both parties. And only in March 2015, he signed a contract with the national team of Egypt, which he immediately began to train. The Egyptian national football team is a much stronger team than the Georgian national team, which Cooper coached earlier. Therefore, it is not surprising that his results were better than a few years ago. But hardly anyone expected that his work with this team would be so much better.
His work with the team Cooper began with five winsin a row, but the winning streak was interrupted by defeat from the national team of Chad in qualifying for the final part of the African Cup. It would seem that Cooper again blundered, and he will have to look for a new place of work. However, he managed in the second game to win a crushing victory with a score of 4: 0 and bring the national team to the final stage.
In the group stage six matches were played,the first of which with the Nigerians ended in a 1: 1 draw. But then the Egyptians did much better, and they won all matches, except for the fight with Mali, which also ended in a draw. In addition, the Egyptian national football team, Cooper won two wins in qualifying games for the 2018 World Cup.
As for the African Cup, the Egyptians couldget to the final, beating the way of Morocco and Burkina Faso, but losing in the final to the Cameroonians. It was quite an impressive result, so the Egyptian Football Federation decided to leave Cooper at the helm of the national team so that he could take it to the World Championship and try to achieve the best results there. His last match with this team today took place on March 28 of the current year. It was a friendly match against Togo, which the Egyptians won with a crushing score 3: 0.
Всего на сегодняшний день сборная Египта под Cooper's leadership played 28 matches, of which only three were lost and five ended in a draw. Twenty fights have been won, and this is currently the best result in Cooper's career. His team won 71 percent of the matches, and the best result so far from the coach was at Inter - 51 percent of the fights won. So we can safely say that Cooper found the ideal place to work.
