César Luis Menotti - International Matches as Coach


The outstanding Argentine coach coached two national teams (Argentina and Mexico) for (in total) 105 international matches, and thereby belongs to the select company of coaches with 100 or more international matches. All matches are friendlies unless stated otherwise.


Born: 5-11-1938
Country: Argentina
Matches as Coach:		  105	(W54-D27-L24 – GF199-GA106 – %64.29)
Matches as Coach for Argentina:    86	(W47-D20-L19 – GF163-GA 85 – %66.28)
Matches as Coach for Mexico: 	   19	(W 7-D 7-L 5 – GF 36-GA 21 – %55.26)

Age First Match: 35 yr 341 d	   12-10-1974 vs. Spain 1-1
Age Last Match:  54 yr  38 d	   13-12-1992 vs. Honduras 1-1
National Team Career: 18 yr  62 d

Coach for Argentina
Caps    Date  	Venue   	Opponent       Score 	Competition
  1   12-10-74	Buenos Aires	Spain          	1-1	Copa Hispanidad
  2    6-11-74	Santiago	Chile           2-0	Copa Dittborn Pinto
  3   20-11-74	Buenos Aires	Chile          	1-1	Copa Dittborn Pinto
  4   27- 6-75	Cochabamba	Bolivia         2-1	Copa Saavedra
  5   18- 7-75	Montevideo	Uruguay       	3-2	Copa Newton
  6    3- 8-75	Caracas 	Venezuela     	5-1	Copa América
  7    6- 8-75	Belo Horizonte	Brazil         	1-2	Copa América
  8   10- 8-75	Rosario 	Venezuela      11-0	Copa América
  9   16- 8-75	Rosario 	Brazil        	0-1	Copa América
 10   21- 8-75	Cd. de México	United States 	6-0	Copa México  
 11   28- 8-75	Cd. de México 	Costa Rica    	2-0	Copa México  
 12   31- 8-75	Cd. de México   Mexico       	1-1	Copa México  
 13   25- 2-76	Asunción	Paraguay    	3-2 [1]	Copa del Atlántico 
 14   27- 2-76	Buenos Aires	Brazil        	1-2 [2]	Copa del Atlántico
 15   20- 3-76	Kiev    	Soviet Union   	1-0	 
 16   24- 3-76	Chorzów 	Poland        	2-1	 
 17   27- 3-76	Budapest	Hungary    	0-2	 
 18    8- 4-76	Buenos Aires	Uruguay       	4-1 [3]	Copa del Atlántico
 19   28- 4-76	Buenos Aires	Paraguay    	2-2 [1]	Copa del Atlántico
 20   19- 5-76	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil        	0-2 [2]	Copa del Atlántico
 21    9- 6-76	Montevideo	Uruguay     	3-0 [4]	Copa del Atlántico
 22   13-10-76	Buenos Aires	Chile          	2-0	Copa Dittborn Pinto
 23   28-10-76	Lima    	Peru         	3-1	Copa R. Castilla
 24   10-11-76	Buenos Aires	Peru           	1-0	Copa R. Castilla
 25   28-11-76	Buenos Aires 	Soviet Union   	1-0	 
 26   27- 2-77	Buenos Aires	Hungary       	5-1	 
 27   22- 3-77	Madrid  	Iran           	1-1 [5]	75th Real Madrid   
 28   29- 5-77	Buenos Aires	Poland       	3-1	 
 29    5- 6-77	Buenos Aires	West Germany  	1-3 
 30   12- 6-77	Buenos Aires	England        	1-1 
 31   18- 6-77	Buenos Aires	Scotland   	1-1	 
 32   26- 6-77	Buenos Aires	France        	0-0	 
 33    3- 7-77	Buenos Aires 	Yugoslavia   	1-0	 
 34   12- 7-77	Buenos Aires	East Germany 	2-0	 
 35   24- 8-77	Buenos Aires	Paraguay      	2-1	Copa Félix Bogado
 36   31- 8-77	Asunción	Paraguay      	0-2 [6]	Copa Félix Bogado
 37   19- 3-78	Buenos Aires	Peru           	2-1	Copa R. Castilla
 38   23- 3-78	Lima    	Peru           	3-1	Copa R. Castilla
 39   29- 3-78	Buenos Aires	Bulgaria      	3-1	 
 40    5- 4-78	Buenos Aires	Romania       	2-0	 
 41   19- 4-78	Buenos Aires	Ireland     	3-1	 
 42   25- 4-78	Montevideo	Uruguay       	0-2	 
 43    3- 5-78	Buenos Aires	Uruguay      	3-0	 
 44    2- 6-78	Buenos Aires	Hungary         2-1	World Cup
 45    6- 6-78	Buenos Aires	France        	2-1	World Cup
 46   10- 6-78	Buenos Aires	Italy          	0-1	World Cup
 47   14- 6-78	Rosario 	Poland         	2-0	World Cup
 48   18- 6-78	Rosario 	Brazil        	0-0	World Cup
 49   21- 6-78	Rosario 	Peru           	6-0	World Cup
 50   25- 6-78	Buenos Aires	Netherlands    	3-1	World Cup
 51   25- 4-79	Buenos Aires	Bulgaria       	2-1	 
 52   22- 5-79	Bern    	Netherlands    	0-0 [7]	75th Anniv. FIFA
 53   26- 5-79	Roma    	Italy         	2-2 
 54   29- 5-79	Dublin  	Ireland 	0-0	 
 55    2- 6-79	Glasgow 	Scotland       	3-1	 
 56   25- 6-79	Buenos Aires	FIFA		1-2	
 57   18- 7-79	La Paz  	Bolivia    	1-2	Copa América
 58    2- 8-79	Rio de Janeiro	Brazil      	1-2	Copa América
 59    8- 8-79	Buenos Aires	Bolivia      	3-0	Copa América 
 60   23- 8-79	Buenos Aires	Brazil        	2-2	Copa América
 61   12- 9-79	Berlin  	West Germany    1-2	
 62   16- 9-79	Beograd 	Yugoslavia     	2-4	 
 63   30- 4-80	Buenos Aires	Ireland 	1-0	 
 64   13- 5-80	London  	England        	1-3	 
 65   16- 5-80	Dublin  	Ireland 	1-0	 
 66   21- 5-80	Wien    	Austria      	5-1	 
 67   18- 9-80	Mendoza 	Chile       	2-2	 
 68    9-10-80	Buenos Aires	Bulgaria       	2-0	 
 69   12-10-80	Buenos Aires	Poland       	2-1	 
 70   15-10-80	Buenos Aires	Czechoslovakia 	1-0	 
 71    4-12-80	Mar del Plata	Soviet Union   	1-1	 
 72   16-12-80	Córdoba		Switzerland  	5-0	 
 73    1- 1-81	Montevideo	West Germany 	2-1	Gold Cup 
 74    4- 1-81	Montevideo	Brazil         	1-1	Gold Cup 
 75   28-10-81	Buenos Aires	Poland      	1-2	 
 76   11-11-81	Buenos Aires	Czechoslovakia  1-1	 
 77    9- 3-82	Mar del Plata	Czechoslovakia 	0-0	 
 78   24- 3-82	Buenos Aires	West Germany   	1-1	  
 79   14- 4-82	Buenos Aires	Soviet Union   	1-1	  
 80    5- 5-82	Buenos Aires	Bulgaria        2-1	 
 81   12- 5-82	Rosario 	Romania        	1-0	 
 82   13- 6-82	Barcelona	Belgium       	0-1	World Cup
 83   18- 6-82	Alicante	Hungary        	4-1	World Cup
 84   23- 6-82	Alicante	El Salvador   	2-0	World Cup
 85   29- 6-82	Barcelona	Italy         	1-2	World Cup
 86    2- 7-82	Barcelona	Brazil         	1-3	World Cup              

[1] Copa del Atlántico and Félix Bogado.
[2] Copa del Atléntico and Copa Roca.
[3] Copa del Atléntico and Copa Lipton.
[4] Copa del Atléntico and Copa Newton.
[5] Argentina won 5-2 on penalty kicks.
[6] Argentina won 3-1 on penalty kicks.
[7] Argentina won 8-7 on penalty kicks.

Coach for Mexico
  1   20-11-91	Veracruz	Uruguay 	1-1
  2   27-11-91	Los Angeles	Costa Rica	1-1
  3    4-12-91	León    	Hungary 	3-0
  4    8- 3-92	Cd. de México	CIS      	4-0
  5   11- 3-92	Tampico		CIS     	1-1
  6   26- 7-92	San Salvador	El Salvador	2-1
  7   31- 7-92	Los Angeles	Brazil  	0-5	Friendship Cup
  8    2- 8-92	Los Angeles	Colombia	0-0	Friendship Cup
  9   16- 8-92	Moskva  	Russia  	0-2
 10   19- 8-92	Sofia		Bulgaria	1-1
 11   26- 8-92	Bucuresti	Romania  	0-2
 12   14-10-92	Dresden		Germany 	1-1
 13   22-10-92	Zagreb  	Croatia 	0-3
 14    8-11-92	Kingstown	St.Vincent/Gr.	4-0	World Cup Qualifier
 15   15-11-92	Cd. de México	Honduras	2-0 	World Cup Qualifier
 16   22-11-92	Cd. de México	Costa Rica	4-0 	World Cup Qualifier
 17   29-11-92	San José	Costa Rica	0-2 	World Cup Qualifier
 18    6-12-92	Cd. de México	St.Vincent/Gr. 11-0 	World Cup Qualifier
 19   13-12-92	Tegucigalpa	Honduras	1-1	World Cup Qualifier


Total Record

Matches	Won Draw Lost	For-Against     Points	Percentage

    105	 54  27  24	199-106		135	64.29

Types of Matches
Friendlies		 52
World Cup		 12
Copa América		  8
Copa del Atlántico	  6
World Cup Qualifier	  6
Copa Ramón Castilla	  4
Copa Carlos Dittborn   	  3
Copa Félix Bogado	  2
Gold Cup Mundialito	  2
Other Tournaments	 10

Total matches:  	105



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