Héctor Oscar Rivoira (10 April 1960 – 14 August 2019) was an Argentine

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manager and player who worked as the manager of

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Playing career

Rivoira played for the River Plate youth teams but never played for the first team. in 1981 he joined Almirante Brown where he played 155 games. He then joined

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where he had a brief stint as a Primera División player during the 1986-87 season. Later in his career he played for

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and

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before playing out his career with local side

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Managerial career

Rivoira was given the job as manager of Club Atlético Ituzaingó in 1992. He also managed a number of other teams in the 2nd division (

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) teams in the 1990s. In 1999 his

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team was promoted to the Primera Division after a 2nd place finish. He managed the team for the full Apertura 1999 tournament but was sacked four games into Clausura 2000.2nd level championship winning managers in Argentina
at

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After a season with

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Rivoira travelled to

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to become manager of

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. In 2003, he returned to Argentina and became manager of Instituto de Córdoba and led them to the Primera B Nacional championship and earned a team promotion to the Primera División for the 2nd time. Following this promotion he was sacked only 9 games into the Primera División season. He returned to the 2nd tier managing

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and

before returning to instituto in 2007. In 2008, he took over as manager of newly promoted

and led them to the 2008-09 Primera B Nacional championship, his 2nd championship and third promotion at this level. After a poor start to the Primera División season he resigned after 12 games of the Apertura. In December 2009 he was unveiled as the new manager of

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, his first appointment as manager of an established Primera División club. On August 14, 2019, he died at age 59 after struggling for a year with colon cancer.

Titles as a manager

References

External links

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Argentine Primera statistics
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