Miguel Company

Miguel Company
	Company with Hugo Sotil in 1973
Personal information
Full name	Miguel Alejandro Company Chumpitazi
Date of birth	12 January 1945 (age 79)
Place of birth	Lima, Peru
Position(s)	Defender
Senior career*
Years	Team
1965–1969	Juan Aurich
1970–1973	José Gálvez
Managerial career
1985	ADT
1985	Juventud La Joya
1985	Colegio Nacional Iquitos
1986	Hungaritos Agustinos
1986	Unión Huaral
1987–1988	Sporting Cristal
1989	Alianza Lima
1990–1991	Sport Boys
1991	Peru
1992–1993	Deportivo Cali
1993	Veracruz
1994–1995	Peru
1997–1998	Honduras
1999	Universitario
2000	Saprissa
2000–2004	Cuba
2010–2011	Sport Boys
2012	Sport Huancayo
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Miguel Alejandro Company Chumpitazi (born 12 January 1945) is a Peruvian football coach, former player (1965–1973), and sports reporter.

Playing career

Company did not have a great track record during his playing days.^[1] He did manage to play for notable teams such as Chiclayo based club Juan Aurich and José Gálvez FBC of Chimbote around the 1970s.^[1]

Managerial career

In the early 1980s Company contributed to Peruvian magazine Ovación by interviewing football figures such as

Colegio Nacional de Iquitos, Hungaritos Agustinos, and Unión Huaral

.

Then in 1987 Company had his first experience in charge of a big Peruvian club, Sporting Cristal.^[1] Lasting only one year and a half, he was in charge of the Celestes for the 1987 Torneo Descentralizado which extended into early 1980 and left before the start of the 1988 Torneo Descentralizado.^[1] He did however manage to win his first trophy with Sporting Cristal in the 1988 Marlboro Cup tournament.

Company then went on to have a short spell with

Alianza Lima in the 1989 Torneo Descentralizado. He helped the club to a strong start to the season but then later struggled in the second half.^[1] Then he was in charge of Sport Boys for 1990 Torneo Descentralizado and led the club to a Copa Libertadores groupstage place by winning the Liguilla Final.^[1] He left right after and came back for the 1991 season only to leave again a few months later.^[1]

Company then managed the

Copa America tournaments (1991 and 1995).^[1] In both editions of the Copa America, he could not lead Peru out of the first group stage. During the 1991 edition he had physical altercations with a journalist and later with his player, Andrés Gonzales, who refused to play against Paraguay.^[1] Gonzales was later banned from playing for Peru for two years.^[1]

He was also in charge of the

Universitario de Deportes

to a Torneo Apertura cup in 1999.