César Alejandro Farías Acosta (born 7 March 1973) is a Venezuelan football

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, currently in charge of Ecuadorian club Aucas. Farías is known for having coached

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Mineros de Guayana Asociación Civil Club Deportivo Mineros de Guayana, known as Mineros de Guayana or simply Mineros, is a professional football club based in Puerto Ordaz, Venezuela. History The Colegio Loyola Gumilla's field, located in Puerto Ordaz, was us ...

, Deportivo Anzoátegui and the Venezuelan U-20 team. He is the first and only manager to ever have taken Venezuela to the semi-final stage of the Copa America. In 2009, he was in charge of Venezuela's U-20 team as it qualified for the first time in its history to the

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Managerial career

Early career

Farías was born in Guiria. In 1998, he started his managerial career in Nueva Cádiz FC; that same year, his team went on to win the

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. In 2002, he had his debut in the

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as the manager of

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. In 2003, he was appointed coach of

. In 2005, he was fired by the administrative board of Deportivo Tachira but was then hired, shortly after, by

. In 2007, after having had a very good season with Mineros de Guayana, he was hired by Deportivo Anzoátegui. That same year, the team went on to finish first within the Venezuelan Primera Division.

Venezuelan national U-20 football team

In April 2008, he was appointed coach of the Venezuelan U-20 team. The team went on to qualify for the first time ever to the

in 2009.

Venezuela national football team

On November 26, 2007, the

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announced the departure of

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as coach of the Venezuela national football team. After weeks of negotiations with several coaches, the Venezuelan Football Federation officially announced that Farías would replace Páez as coach. On February 3, 2008, Farías debuted as coach of the Venezuela national team with a 1–0 win over Haiti. Several months later, on June 6, during a friendly match in preparation for the FIFA World Cup qualification, Venezuela defeated

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for the first time in its history with a final score of 2–0. On June 14, 2008, Farías debuted in the FIFA World Cup qualifiers with a 1–1 draw against

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at the

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of Montevideo. He nearly achieved qualification to the

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, after finishing only two points away from a highly disputed 5th place qualification spot. In the 2011 Copa América held in

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, he became the second coach to ever guide Venezuela to the knockout stages of the tournament. He saw his team advance to the knockout stages following draws with Brazil (0–0) and

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(3–3) and a victory over

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(1–0). He also became the first coach to take Venezuela to the semi-final stage of the Copa America after his team defeated

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2–1 in the quarter finals.

Tijuana

After being eliminated from the Concacaf Champions League by losing 2-1 on aggregate in April 2014, He went to hug a player from Cruz Azul but seconds later he shoved the player and shoved another player from the Cruz Azul and fought with one of the staff of Cruz Azul then also fought with one of the assistant managers of Cruz Azul. This was after the Cruz Azul goalkeeper, Jose De Jesus Corona was sent off at the end of the game

NorthEast United

On July 1, 2015, he signed as the manager of

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club

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. He took the bottom placed team to the 5th position finish in the league, despite injury to some of his key players at the start of the tournament.

Bolivia

He arrived in Bolivia in 2016 to manage The Strongest. Later he was appointed as caretaker coach of the team following Bolivia's failure to qualify for the 2018 FIFA World Cup. As a caretaker coach, he took an Asian tour, where he managed only one win over

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3–0, but also only suffered one minimal loss against

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. After the tour, he returned to coach The Strongest. After

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, in which Bolivia had a disappointing campaign with three straight defeats, Cesar was officially appointed as coach of Bolivia, with a given task to help Bolivia to qualify for 2022 FIFA World Cup.https://www.britishasianews.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?newsID=103263 He is in charge of the U-23 team as well. In his first major competition for Bolivia as coach, the 2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament, the Bolivian team would have an outstanding performance in the tournament, including two shock wins over powerhouse

and

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, but missed out on the place to the final round due to worse goal differences with the former.

Personal life

Farías's younger brother Daniel Farías was also a footballer.

Honours

Club

;Nueva Cádiz *

: 1998

International

;Venezuela U20 * Copa Gobernación del Zulia: 2009 * L'Alcúdia youth tournament: Runner-up 2009

Individual

* 2009 L'Alcúdia youth tournament: Best coach

References

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