Helenio Herrera
Herrera covered on Argentine sports magazine
El Gráfico in 1964. |
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Helenio Herrera Gavilán | ||
| Date of birth | 10 April 1910 | ||
| Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
| Date of death | 9 November 1997 (aged 87) | ||
| Place of death | Venice, Italy | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| Roches Noires | |||
| 1931–1932 | RC Casablanca | ||
| 1932–1933 | CASG Paris | ||
| 1933–1935 | Stade Français | ||
| 1935–1937 | Charleville | ||
| 1937–1939 | Excelsior Roubaix | ||
| 1940–1942 | Red Star Olympique | ||
| 1942–1943 | Stade Français | ||
| 1943–1944 | EF Paris-Capitale | ||
| 1944–1945 | Puteaux | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1944–1945 | Puteaux | ||
| 1945–1948 | Stade Français | ||
| 1948–1949 | Real Valladolid | ||
| 1949–1952 | Atlético Madrid | ||
| 1952 | Málaga | ||
| 1953 | Deportivo de La Coruña | ||
| 1953–1957 | Sevilla | ||
| 1957–1958 | Belenenses | ||
| 1958–1960 | Barcelona | ||
| 1960–1968 | Internazionale | ||
| 1966–1967 | Italy | ||
| 1968–1970 | Roma | ||
| 1973–1974 | Internazionale | ||
| 1978–1979 | Rimini | ||
| 1979–1981 | Barcelona | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. | |||
Helenio Herrera Gavilán (Spanish pronunciation: [eˈlenjo eˈreɾa ɣaβiˈlan]; 10 April 1910 – 9 November 1997) was an Argentine, naturalized French, football player and manager. He is best remembered for his tremendous success with the Internazionale team known as Grande Inter in the 1960s.
During his managerial career, Herrera won four La Liga titles in Spain (with Atlético Madrid and Barcelona) and three Serie A titles in Italy with Inter. He also guided Inter to European glory, winning two consecutive European Cups, among several other honours. He is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time. In January 2017, Herrera was named among the 10 greatest coaches since the foundation of UEFA in 1954.
Herrera was arguably the first manager to collect credit for his teams' performances, in the process becoming a superstar in the world of football. Up to that time, managers were more marginal figures in a team. All teams throughout Europe were known for their headline-grabbing individual players, e.g. Di Stéfano's Real Madrid, whereas Inter during the 1960s is still referred to as Herrera's Inter.
Herrera was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, to Spanish parents. His father Francisco, who worked as a carpenter, was an exiled anarchist from Andalusia. His mother, Maria Gavilán Martínez, was a cleaner. In 1920, Herrera’s family left Argentina for Casablanca, then a French colonial city, in search of a better life. In Casablanca Herrera started his career as a footballer.
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