Germán Adrián Ramón Burgos (; born 16 April 1969), nicknamed El Mono Burgos (), is an Argentine retired professional

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who played as a

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, currently a

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. During his 15-year senior career, he played for

Ferro Carril Oeste Club Ferro Carril Oeste, known simply as Ferro Carril Oeste or familiarly, Ferro, is an Argentine sports club from the neighbourhood of Caballito, Buenos Aires. Although many activities are hosted by the club, Ferro is mostly known for its footb ...

, River Plate,

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and

Atlético Madrid Club Atlético de Madrid, Sociedad Anónima Deportiva, S.A.D. (; meaning "Athletic Club of Madrid"), known simply as Atleti in the Spanish-speaking world and commonly referred to at international level as Atlético Madrid, is a Spanish profess ...

, the latter two clubs in Spain. He was an Argentine international from the mid-1990s to the early 2000s. After retiring, Burgos worked as assistant coach at several teams under his compatriot

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, most notably Atlético Madrid whom they joined in 2011.

Playing career

Club

Born in

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, Burgos started playing professionally with

. In 1994, he signed with

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giants

Club Atlético River Plate Club Atlético River Plate, commonly known as River Plate, is an Argentine professional sports club based in the Núñez, Buenos Aires, Núñez neighborhood of Buenos Aires. Founded in 1901, the club is named after the English name for the city ...

where he was dubbed ''Mono'' (

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) because of his height and disheveled appearance, going on to win several titles during his spell, notably the 1994 ''Apertura'' where his team did not lose one single match. Burgos moved abroad in July 1999, joining Spain's

RCD Mallorca Real Club Deportivo Mallorca, S.A.D. (, ca, Reial Club Deportiu Mallorca , ''Royal Sporting Club Mallorca''), commonly known as Real Mallorca or just Mallorca is a Spanish professional football club based in Palma on the island of Majorca in ...

. During his two-year spell in the

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, he played understudy to compatriot

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. On 27 November 1999, he was suspended for 11 games for punching

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player

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in a match played the previous week, in an action that eluded the referee but was caught on camera. In the 2001–02 season, Burgos signed with

, with the

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club in

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. He had his best year in the country in an eventual return to

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after a two-year absence, but appeared less in the following two campaigns, retiring at the end of 2003–04 aged 35. Burgos was remembered for his performance in a Madrid derby against

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in the first season back in the top flight of the ''Colchoneros'', in which he saved

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with his nose, causing a bloody injury; he played on, and his side eventually scored an equaliser to earn a 2–2 draw.

International

Burgos earned 35

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for

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, over seven years. He was second choice at both the

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and

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s, backing up

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in the former tournament and Pablo Cavallero four years later. Burgos was the starter in the latter half of the qualifying campaign for the 2002 World Cup (unseating

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) and it was generally expected that he would be the first choice in the finals, but manager

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ultimately chose Cavallero.

Coaching career

In 2010, after working with

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as goalkeepers' coach, Burgos started his managerial career also in Spain, with amateurs

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. In the following years, he worked as assistant to former club and country teammate

at Catania Calcio,

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and Atlético Madrid. Burgos became the first coach in the world to use

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during a competitive game, in April 2014 against

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. After Simeone was sent to the stands by the referee in the first leg of the

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semi-finals against

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, and was therefore suspended for the second leg and

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after Atlético advanced, he took charge of the team as they defeated

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. With Simeone still suspended, Burgos took over again when Atlético faced Real Madrid in the 2018 UEFA Super Cup, won 4–2 in Estonia. Unable to reach an agreement with the board, he announced his intention to leave at the end of the 2019–20 season. Burgos was handed his first job as a head coach at the professional level on 14 March 2021, when he signed a contract until the end of the year at

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with the option to renew it for a further season. He joined midway through the

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, and his side earned ten points from their remaining eight games, finishing bottom of Zone B. More significantly, they failed to advance from their group in the

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, and after the conclusion of both tournaments he left by mutual consent. On 22 February 2022, Burgos replaced

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at the helm of

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in the

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Personal life

Outside football, Burgos was also a musician, having started his career while still an active player. He acted as the frontman of

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band The Garb. Burgos was successfully treated for cancer in 2003.

Managerial statistics

Honours

River Plate *

: Apertura

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1996 File:1996 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: A Centennial Olympic Park bombing, bomb explodes at Centennial Olympic Park in Atlanta, set off by a radical Anti-abortion violence, anti-abortionist; The center fuel tank explodes on TWA Flight 8 ...

1997 File:1997 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The movie set of ''Titanic'', the highest-grossing movie in history at the time; ''Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone'', is published; Comet Hale-Bopp passes by Earth and becomes one of t ...

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shootin ...

; Clausura 1997 *

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Atlético Madrid *

: 2001–02

References

External links

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