Fernando Castro Lozada

Fernando "Pecoso" Castro Lozada (Manizales, Caldas, Colombia, 11 February 1949) is a Colombian football manager and former player. He has won two Primera A titles as a manager, most recently in 2015 with Deportivo Cali. He is currently the manager of Atlético Bucaramanga, in the Colombian Categoría Primera A.

Castro obtained his first win working as the Technical Director of the Deportivo Cali, in the 1995/96 season; with them he broke a bad series of 22 years without wins for the team "Azucarero".

Later, "El Pecoso" (Freckle Face) stood out in his work for another big name of Colombian football, Independiente Santa Fe, the club that he directed from 1999 to 2001. In the 2000 season, he took the team to the championship finals, contending the title against the America of Cali (eventually the champions), Junior of Barranquilla and Sports Tolima.

Castro also directed América de Cali, between the years 2002 and 2003. This was a team with which he had a big campaign in the Copa Libertadores 2003, leading the "Escarlata" (The Scarlet) to the semi-finals, in which the team was knocked out by the Boca Juniors of Argentina (eventually the champions).

In his second stage as the head of "Los Cardenales", in spite of having an exceptional performance in the Tournament Opening, serious differences with the surroundings of the club motivated his exit in 2008. He was replaced by the Coach Hernán Darío "Bolillo" Gómez.

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