Gabriel Calderón

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Gabriel Humberto Calderón (born February 7, 1960 in Rawson, Chubut Province) is a former Argentine football midfielder and striker.

Calderón played in several teams including Argentine Racing Club de Avellaneda and Club Atlético Independiente, Spanish Real Betis and French Paris Saint-Germain. He was part of the Argentine team that won the 1979 FIFA World Youth Championship, and also played in the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain and in the 1990 FIFA World Cup in Italy. the main achievement is that he won world cup in 1986 .

After his retirement and a short period working as TV commentator, Calderón moved to coaching. He coached former teams of Caen (1997~2000) and Lousane (2002~2003).

Calderón then took over as the coach for the Saudi Arabia national football team at the end of 2004, and successfully guided the Saudi team to qualification for the Football World Cup 2006 in Germany by beating Uzbekistan 3-0 in Riyadh. Calderón said "Qualifying to the World Cup is the dream of every coach and I'm more than satisfied with our campaign in the qualifiers." "I'm very happy with the qualification since that was the goal I was aiming at when I first arrived in the Kingdom," he added.

However, in December 2005, Calderón was fired by the Saudi Arabia Football Federation as they were dissatisfied by the team's poor showing in the West Asian Games, and was replaced by Marcos Paqueta.

[edit] Career history

1976~1976 - El Porvenir (On loan from Racing Club)
1977~1977 - Racing Club
1977~1978 - Lanús
1979~1981 - Racing Club
1981~1983 - Independiente
1983~1987 - Real Betis (131 matches)
1987~1990 - Paris Saint-Germain
1991~1992 - FC Sion
1992~1993 - Caen
1993~1994 - Lausanne

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	Argentina squad - 1990 FIFA World Cup Runners-up
1 Pumpido (Comizzo) \| 2 Batista \| 3 Balbo \| 4 Basualdo \| 5 Bauza \| 6 Calderón \| 7 Burruchaga \| 8 Caniggia \| 9 Dezotti \| 10 Maradona \| 11 Fabbri \| 12 Goycochea \| 13 Lorenzo \| 14 Giusti \| 15 Monzón \| 16 Olarticoechea \| 17 Sensini \| 18 Serrizuela \| 19 Ruggeri \| 20 Simón \| 21 Troglio \| 22 Cancelarich \| Coach: Bilardo

	Argentina squad - 1982 FIFA World Cup
1 Ardiles \| 2 Baley \| 3 Barbas \| 4 Bertoni \| 5 Calderón \| 6 Díaz \| 7 Fillol \| 8 Galván \| 9 Gallego \| 10 Maradona \| 11 Kempes \| 12 Hernández \| 13 Olarticoechea \| 14 Olguín \| 15 Passarella \| 16 Pumpido \| 17 Santamaría \| 18 Tarantini \| 19 Trossero \| 20 Valdano \| 21 Valencia \| 22 Van Tuyne \| Coach: Menotti