Héctor Fabio Cárdenas Berrío (born 28 August 1979) is a Colombian football
manager
Management (or managing) is the administration of an organization, whether it is a business, a nonprofit organization, or a government body. It is the art and science of managing resources of the business.
Management includes the activities o ...
, currently in charge of the
Colombia national under-20 team.
Career
Born in
Cali
Santiago de Cali (), or Cali, is the capital of the Valle del Cauca department, and the most populous city in southwest Colombia, with 2,227,642 residents according to the 2018 census. The city spans with of urban area, making Cali the second ...
, Cárdenas worked for the
Valle del Cauca Department League and
Boca Juniors de Cali
Boca Juniors de Cali is a professional football club which represented the city of Cali since its creation in 1937 until its exit from professional football in 1957 and again from 2019 onwards competing in the Categoría Primera B, the second t ...
before joining
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 ...
in 2011, as a youth coach. On 9 October 2012, he was named interim manager of the first team for the remainder of
the season, after
Julio Comesaña resigned.
Cárdenas returned to his previous role after the appointment of
Leonel Álvarez, but was named manager of the club on 26 February 2014, after Álvarez was sacked. On 2 December 2014, Deportivo Cali announced that Cárdenas would not be the manager of the club for the ensuing campaign, and he subsequently returned to the youth setup.
On 13 March 2017, Cárdenas was again named manager of the first team in the place of
Mario Yepes
Mario Alberto Yepes Díaz (; born 13 January 1976) is a Colombian former professional footballer who played as a centre-back. He is well known for his time in Paris Saint-Germain, where he was considered to be one of the best defenders at the ...
. On 17 October, however, he was himself dismissed.
On 30 May 2018, Cárdenas was appointed manager of the
Colombia national under-17 team. He became the manager of the
under-20s on 16 February 2022, being also named interim manager of
the full side in May.
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1979 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Cali
Colombian football managers
Categoría Primera A managers
Deportivo Cali managers
Colombia national under-20 football team managers
Colombia national football team managers