Juan Carlos Oblitas

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Juan Carlos Oblitas

Personal information
Full name	Juan Carlos Oblitas Saba
Date of birth	(1951-02-16) February 16, 1951 (age 73)
Place of birth	Mollendo, Arequipa, Peru
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Winger/Forward
Youth career
1967	Universitario
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1968–1975	Universitario
1975–1976	Elche	1	(0)
1976–1977	Veracruz	59	(10)
1978–1980	Sporting Cristal
1981–1984	Sérésien	84	(15)
1984–1985	Universitario
International career
1973–1985	Peru	63	(11)
Managerial career
1987–1990	Universitario
1990–1995	Sporting Cristal
1996–1999	Peru
1999–2001	Sporting Cristal
2003	Alajuelense
2004	U. San Martín
2004–2006	LDU Quito
2007–2009	Sporting Cristal
2015–2022	Peru (technical director)
Medal record Men’s football Representing  Peru Copa América Winner 1975
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

After Manuel Burga resigned following a long period of criticism, the new FPF leadership of Edwin Oviedo appointed him as technical director for the national team. There, in January 2017, he helped the new FPF leadership to design the "Minors Plan" project, with the aim to improve the youth football of Peru which has been weaker than most of other CONMEBOL nations, in order to rebuild and reform football development in Peru for the future.^[1] He also aimed to make Peru one of major youth football power in South America, hoping to achieve more frequent qualification to the FIFA U-17 and FIFA U-20 World Cups. He also helped designing the Centennial Plan 2022, with its goal is to achieve more World Cup qualification successes, and making the Peruvian youth league one of South America's strongest, as well as the construction of new FPF Academy, the Center of National Teams. ->^[2]

Titles

As a player

As a manager

References

External links

• Oblitas on RSSSF-site
• Juan Carlos Oblitas at National-Football-Teams.com
• Futbol Factory profile at the Wayback Machine (archived 2008-04-30) (in Spanish)