Armando Osma Rueda (born 7 December 1961) is a Colombian

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and former player who played as a

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. He is the current manager of Colombian club

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Playing career

Born in

Bucaramanga Bucaramanga () is the capital and largest city of the department of Santander, Colombia. Bucaramanga has the fifth-largest economy by GDP in Colombia, has the lowest unemployment rate and has the ninth-largest population in the country, with 68 ...

, Osma began his career with hometown side

Atlético Bucaramanga Club Atlético Bucaramanga S.A., better known as Atlético Bucaramanga, is a Colombian professional football team based in Bucaramanga. The club plays its home games at the Alfonso López stadium. The club was founded on 11 May 1949 by Rafael C ...

in 1981. He subsequently represented

Once Caldas Once Caldas S.A., simply known as Once Caldas, is a professional Colombian football team based in Manizales, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the Palogrande stadium. They were the surprise winners ...

Deportivo Cali Asociación Deportivo Cali, best known as Deportivo Cali, is a Colombian sports club based in Cali, most notable for its football team, which currently competes in the Categoría Primera A. Deportivo Cali is one of the most successful footba ...

Deportes Tolima Club Deportes Tolima S.A., commonly known as Deportes Tolima, or simply as Tolima, is a Colombian professional football club based in Ibagué, Tolima Department that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. Founded in 1954, the club has wo ...

Millonarios Millonarios Fútbol Club is a professional Colombian football team based in Bogotá, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the El Campín stadium. Millonarios was initially created in 1937 by students f ...

and

Cortuluá Cortuluá, officially named Cortuluá Fútbol Club S. A. and previously known as Corporación Club Deportivo Tuluá, is a Colombian football club from the municipality of Tuluá in the Valle del Cauca. It was founded in 1967 and plays in the Cate ...

before returning to his first club in 1996. He retired in 1997, aged 36.

Managerial career

After retiring, Osma began his managerial career with

's youth categories in 1999. In 2002, he joined

Luis Fernando Suárez Luis Fernando Suárez Guzmán (born 23 December 1959) is a Colombian football manager and former player who played as a defender. He is the current manager of the Costa Rica national football team. Suárez has managed in six Latin American c ...

's staff at

, and subsequently followed Suárez to

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and the Ecuador national team. In 2007, Osma was also manager of the Ecuador under-23 national team. In the December of that year, he took over Olmedo, but reunited with Suárez in 2009, at Peruvian side

Juan Aurich Club Juan Aurich S. A., commonly known as Juan Aurich, is a professional football club based in Chiclayo, Peru. The original Juan Aurich club was founded in 1922, this incarnation however was founded in 2005; they play in the Torneo Descentral ...

. In 2011, Osma was named manager of

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. He took over

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in April 2013, before returning to Manta in August the following year. In 2015, Osma was appointed manager of El Nacional's youth categories. In August the following year, he was named at the helm of

, and later rejoined Suárez's staff at

La Equidad Club Deportivo La Equidad Seguros, also known as La Equidad, is a professional Colombian football team based in Bogotá, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the Metropolitano de Techo stadium. History ...

. After working with Suárez at

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, Osma returned to managerial duties in February 2021, with Honduran side Águila. He later returned to Ecuador to take over

América de Quito Club Deportivo América, commonly known as América de Quito, is a football club based in Quito, Ecuador. A top-level club in Ecuador for decades, they were relegated to the second division in 1988 and later to the country's third-tier Segunda C ...

in June of that year, before rejoining his first club Bucaramanga on 24 February 2022, in the place of resigned

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. He was sacked from Atlético Bucaramanga on 10 October. On 27 July 2023, he was announced as the new manager of

in the Colombian second tier competition

Categoría Primera B Categoría Primera B, commonly referred to as Torneo BetPlay Dimayor due to sponsorship by online betting company BetPlay (formerly ''Torneo Águila''), is the second-division football league in Colombia. Format DIMAYOR has applied a new forma ...

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