Patricio Alejandro Camps (born January 22, 1972 in

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) is a former

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player. He is of

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descent.

Club career

Camps joined Velez as a 14 years old in 1986, he made his breakthrough into the first team in 1991. He was part of four Argentine league championship campaigns and also won three international championships. Camps also played for Banfield and

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in Argentina, PAOK Thessaloniki FC in

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and Olimpia of

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. He played over 250 times for Velez Sarsfield in all competitions, winning seven major titles during the club's golden era in the 1990s.

Coaching career

After retiring, Camps joined the technical staff of

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at the

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. The duo was there from 2004 to 2006. He followed Pékerman to

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in July 2007 still as a part of his technical staff, until the next year. Camps continued alongside Pékerman to

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in February 2008, but left already at the end of the season just four months later. In January 2012, Camps once again joined the technical staff of

at the Colombia national football team. With 12 years of experience as part of a technical team, Camps got his first ever manager job on 12 April 2019, when he was appointed as the manager of Santa Fe with

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as his assistant.

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