Julio Daniel Asad (Arabic: خوليو أسد; born 7 June 1953) is an Argentine former football player and manager. He played as a midfielder, and participated with Argentina in the 1975 Copa América.
Asad was nicknamed "El Turco" due to his Syrian and Lebanese ethnicity. In Argentina, Arabs were mistakenly called Turks, since they came to Argentina with Ottoman Turkish documents in the 1900s. After he retired from professional football, he became a manager. He has coached clubs in Argentina, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, and El Salvador.
He is the uncle of Omar Asad, who was also a successful player for Vélez in the 1990s.
Honours
Manager
Club Deportivo Riestra
- Champion: 1985
Defensores de Belgrano
- Champions: 1991–92
Club Leandro N. Alem
- Champions: Clausura 1996
Centro Deportivo Olmedo
- Champions: 2000
Club Deportivo Cuenca
- Champions: 2004
Al-Nassr
- Federation Cup: 2007
Personal
- Coach Of The Year in Ecuador: 2000, 2001
- Coach Of The Year in Saudi Arabia: 2003
References
External links
- Julio Asad at BDFA (in Spanish)
