Marcelo Pablo Barticciotto Cicaré (born 1 January 1967) is an Argentine-Chilean former

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Club career

In 1987, Barticciotto made his professional debut with Huracán of the National B Division in

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. Barticciotto arrived to Chilean club

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in 1988, where he would become an idol to supporters. Barticciotto won seven national championships and three international championships in twelve years with the club. The most important of those championships was the Copa Libertadores 1991, where he scored three goals. Colo-Colo is the only Chilean team to ever win the Copa Libertadores. After these accomplishments, Barticciotto signed for Club América in Mexico. However, he did not experience the same form he had in Chile and in 1995 returned to Chile to sign for Colo-Colo's rival Universidad Católica. His time here was even shorter. In a game against his old team, Colo-Colo, Barticciotto scored the lone goal of the match which eliminated Colo-Colo from the Copa Libertadores tournament of the same year. Before the game, Barticciotto had stated in an interview that he did not want to score a goal against his former team but wanted to play a very good game. Therefore, when he scored the goal he did not celebrate it. Afterwards he reiterated that he wished he did not score the goal. Of course there was backlash from these comments and his actions and this ultimately led to his dismissal from the team. In 1996, Barticciotto made his return to Colo-Colo. He regained his form and was an important part of the reason that Colo-Colo would win three straight championships from 1996-1998. In his final season, 2002, Colo-Colo would go on to win his seventh championship but was not a fixture in the starting line-up for most of the season. On January 12, 2003 he retired in front of more than fifty thousands spectators in Colo-Colo's stadium, Estadio Monumental David Arellano. He retired having won the second most championships by a Colo-Colo player, behind only Luis Mena who has nine.

Managerial career

Barticciotto was hired to manage U. de Concepción in 2007. Barticciotto inherited a team that was on the verge of relegation and took them to the final of the 2007 Clausura tournament against his former club Colo-Colo. During the 2008 Clausura and with the resignation of Colo-Colo manager Fernando Astengo as the team was tied for first place in the table, Barticciotto was signed on to direct the team. In the first game with Baricciotto as coach Colo-Colo went on to defeat Santiago Morning 2-1 with 2 goals from Lucas Barrios with one being done by

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. Colo-Colo went on to lose the two following games which in turn earned Barticiotto criticism from both the press and fans alike. The turning point was a 2-0 victory against rivals Universidad de Chile. Barticiotto and Colo-Colo went on to the play-offs and obtain the 2008 Clausura championship and qualify for the

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. On 17 April 2009 the Coach Barticciotto has quit Colo Colo, the new coach is

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Personal life

He is the father of Bruno Barticciotto, a Chilean professional footballer who began his career playing for Universidad Católica.

Honours

Club

As player

;Colo-Colo *

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1989 File:1989 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Cypress structure collapses as a result of the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake, killing motorists below; The proposal document for the World Wide Web is submitted; The Exxon Valdez oil tanker runs ...

1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of humanity on Earth, astrophysicist ...

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phi ...

, 1996,

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, 1997 Clausura, 2002 Clausura *

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* Copa Libertadores (1):

* Recopa Sudamericana (1): 1992 *

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(1): 1992

As manager

;Colo-Colo *

: 2008 Clausura

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Barticciotto, Marcelo 1967 births Living people Sportspeople from Avellaneda Argentine emigrants to Chile Argentine expatriate footballers Argentine footballers Chilean footballers Chilean football managers Association football forwards Club Atlético Huracán footballers Colo-Colo footballers Club América footballers Universidad de Concepción managers Colo-Colo managers Audax Italiano managers Liga MX players Chilean Primera División players Primera Nacional players Expatriate footballers in Mexico Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Chile Expatriate footballers in Chile Naturalized citizens of Chile Expatriate football managers in Chile Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Mexico