Xabier Azkargorta

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Personal information
Xabier Azkargorta
Full name	Francisco Xabier Azkargorta Uriarte
Date of birth	September 29, 1953 (1953-09-29) (age 54)
Place of birth	Azpeitia, Spain
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position	Centre Forward
Club information
Current club	Unnatached
Youth clubs
1969-1971 1971-1972	Real Sociedad (youth team) Bilbao Athletic
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1972-1977 1975-1976	Athletic Bilbao Bilbao Athletic
Teams managed
1978-1980 1980-1982 1982-1983 1983-1986 1986-1987 1987-1988 1989-1991 1993-1994 1995-1996 1997-1998 2005	Lagun Onak Aurrerá Vitoria Gimnastic de Tarragona Espanyol Real Valladolid Sevilla FC CD Tenerife Bolivia Chile Yokohama Marinos Chivas
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Francisco Xabier Azcargorta Uriarte (born 29 September 1953 in Azpeitia), usually called Xabier Azkargorta, is a former Spanish football player and manager.

During his playing career he played for Real Sociedad and Athletic Bilbao. Later he became a manager, coaching club teams such as CD Tenerife, RCD Espanyol, Sevilla FC, Real Valladolid, and Club Deportivo Guadalajara, and national teams including Bolivia and Chile.

He currently works as a television pundit for Digital+'s coverage of the South American World Cup qualifiers.

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Yokohama Marinos
- J-League: 1997-1998
Bolivia national football team
- First classification of Bolivia in a World Cup (USA 94') and manager of Bolivia in World Cup of 1994: 1993 - 1994

v • d • e Bolivia squad - 1994 FIFA World Cup

1 Trucco • 2 J. Peña • 3 Sandy • 4 Rimba • 5 Quinteros • 6 Borja • 7 Pinedo • 8 Melgar • 9 A. Peña • 10 Etcheverry • 11 Moreno • 12 Rojas • 13 Soruco • 14 Ramos • 15 Soria • 16 Cristaldo • 17 O. Sánchez • 18 Ramallo • 19 Torrico • 20 Castillo • 21 E. Sánchez • 22 Baldivieso • Coach: Azkargorta

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RCD Espanyol – Managers

Garry (1922–24) • Sanz (1924–26) • Greenwell (1927–29) • Caicedo (1930–33) • Trabal (1933–35) • Caicedo (1935–1943) • Zamora (1943) • Bosch (1943–44) • Albéniz (1944–46) • Bosch (1946) • Planas (1946–47) • Espada (1947–49) • Caicedo (1949–50) • Nogués (1950–52) • Scopelli (1952–55) • Bravo (1955) • Zamora (1955–57) • Berkessy (1957–58) • Domingo (1958–59) • Barrios (1959–60) • Pons (1960–61) • Zamora (1961) • Saso (1961–62) • Zamora (1962) • Herrera (1962–63) • Scopelli (1963–64) • Kubala (1964–65) • Argila (1965–66) • Di Stéfano (1966) • Kálmár (1966–69) • Argilés (1969) • Riera (1969–70) • Iriondo (1970) • Daučík (1970–71) • Santamaría (1971–78) • Herrera (1978) • Irulegui (1978–79) • Miera (1979–80) • Maguregui (1980–83) • Pavić (1983–84) • Azkargorta (1984–86) • Clemente (1986–89) • Joanet (1989–90) • Aragonés (1990–91) • Petrović (1991–92) • Clemente (1992) • Díaz Novoa (1992–93) • Camacho (1993–96) • Carcelén (1996–97) • Flores (1997) • Camacho (1997–98) • Bielsa (1998–99) • Brindisi (1999–2000) • Flores (2000–02) • Moya (2002) • Clemente (2002–04) • Fernández (2004) • Lotina (2004–06) • Valverde (2006–08)

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Bolivia national football team – Managers

Valderrama (1927) • Saucedo (1930) • Borelli (1945) • Lara (1945–46) • Dehaza (1949) • Pretto (1950) • Vicino (1953) • Arraya (1959) • Danilo (1963) • Valda (1965) • Trigo (1967) • Valda (1969–73) • Trigo (1975) • Valda (1975) • Camacho (1977) • Vibra (1977) • Blacutt (1979–81) • Saldanha (1981) • Camacho (1983) • Rodriguez (1985) • Nito Veiga (1987) • Habberger (1989) • Blacutt (1991) • Azkargorta (1993–94) • Lopez (1995) • Draskovic (1996) • Lopez (1996–97) • Veira (1999) • Aragones (2000–01) • Habberger (2001) • Trucco (2001–02) • Soria (2002) • Roque (2003) • Acosta (2003–04) • Blacutt (2004) • Messa (2004–06) • Sánchez (2006–)

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Chile national football team – Managers

Bertola (1917) • Bertone (1920–22) • Rosetti (1926) • Powell (1928) • Orth (1930) • Mazullo (1936–39) • Garay (1941) • Platko (1941–53) • Salerno (1956–57) • Pakozdi (1957) • Riera (1962–66) • Alamos (1966) • Scopelli (1966–67) • Nocetti (1968–69) • Hormazábal (1970) • Riera (1970) • Vera (1971) • Pino (1971–72) • Gutendorf (1972) • Alamos (1973–74) • Morales (1974–75) • Peña (1976–77) • Santibanez (1977–82) • Ibarra (1982–83) • Carrasco (1984) • Cantatore (1984) • Morales (1985) • Ibarra (1986) • Aravena (1987) • Rodríguez (1987) • Aravena (1988–89) • Salah (1990–93) • Acosta (1993) • Jozić (1994) • Azkargorta (1995–96) • Acosta (1996–2000) • García (2001) • Garcés (2001) • Vaccia (2002) • Olmos (2003–05) • Acosta (2005–07) • Bielsa (2007–)

v • d • e Yokohama F. Marinos – Managers

Shimizu (1993–94) • Solari (1995) • Hayano (1995–96) • Azkargorta (1997–98) • de la Cruz (1999) • Ardiles (2000–01) • Shimojo (2001) • Lazaroni (2001–02) • Shimojo (2002) • Okada (2003–06) • Mizunuma (2006) • Hayano (2007) • Kuwahara (2008–)