Omar Asad
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Omar Andrés Asad | ||
| Date of birth | 9 April 1971 | ||
| Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1992–2000 | Vélez Sársfield | 108 | (23) |
| National team | |||
| 1995 | Argentina | 2 | (0) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2003–2009 | Vélez Sársfield (youths and reserves) | ||
| 2010 | Godoy Cruz | ||
| 2011 | Emelec | ||
| 2011 | San Lorenzo | ||
| 2012 | Godoy Cruz | ||
| 2013 | Atlas | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Omar Andrés Asad (born 9 April 1971) is an Argentine football manager and former player and current coach, who played as a forward.
As a player, Asad spent all of his career in Vélez Sársfield, winning 8 titles with the club (including both the Copa Libertadores and the Intercontinental Cup).
Asad is nicknamed el Turco (in English: "the Turk") because he has Syrian and Lebanese ethnicity. In Argentina, Arabs are usually mistakenly called Turks since they came to the country with Ottoman Turkish documents in the 1900s.
Asad played as a striker and was characterised by being strong and quick. His first match in the Argentine Primera División came in 1992, when he played for Vélez Sársfield against Talleres de Córdoba.
He was a determinant player in Vélez' most successful years, along manager Carlos Bianchi and Paraguayan goalkeeper José Luis Chilavert. With Vélez, Asad won the Argentine Primera División title in 1993 (Clausura), and after that the Copa Libertadores and the Intercontinental Cup, where he was chosen Man of the Match after scoring the second goal against A.C. Milan. Asad later won the Apertura in 1995 and played for the Argentine national team, until he got injured in the end of that season, which stopped his progression as a player.
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