José Alberto Suárez Giraldo (born 22 February 1961) is a Colombian

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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 2,280,522 residents estimate by National Administrative Department of Statistics, DANE in 2023. The city span ...

, Suárez began his career with

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side River Plate de Buga in the 1995–96 season. In August 1996, he took over fellow league team Lanceros Boyacá, and moved to

Cortuluá Cortuluá, officially named Cortuluá Fútbol Club S. A. and previously known as Corporación Club Deportivo Tuluá for short, was a Colombian football club from Tuluá, Valle del Cauca Department. It was founded in 1967 and last played in Categ ...

in the following year; in May 1998, he resigned from the latter. In 2000, after a short period at

Deportivo Pereira Deportivo Pereira is a professional Colombian football team based in Pereira, that currently plays in the Categoría Primera A. They play their home games at the Hernán Ramírez Villegas stadium. History Early years While there are several am ...

, Suárez joined

América de Cali América de Cali S. A., best known as América de Cali or América, is a Colombian professional football club based in Cali. It competes in the Categoría Primera A, the top-flight league of Colombian football. The team plays its home games at ...

to work in the club's youth categories. For the 2004 season, he was named first team manager of América, after being an interim during the 2002 campaign. Suárez left América in 2005, and subsequently managed

Unión Magdalena Unión Magdalena () commonly known as El Unión, and nicknamed as El Ciclón Bananero (The Banana Cyclone) and also Los Samarios (The Samarios), is a Colombian football club from the city of Santa Marta, capital of the department of Magdalena De ...

in that year. He returned to Cortuluá in 2006, leaving in 2008 to work at C.D. Escuela Carlos Sarmiento Lora as a coach. Suárez returned to managerial duties on 6 June 2013, after taking over

Jaguares de Córdoba Jaguares de Córdoba is a professional Colombian football team based in Montería, that plays in Categoría Primera B. They play their home games at the Jaraguay stadium. History The team was created on 5 December 2012 at a meeting held by t ...

. He was named in charge of

Cúcuta Deportivo Cúcuta Deportivo Fútbol Club S. A. (Spanish ), commonly referred to as Cúcuta Deportivo, is a professional Colombian football club from the city of Cúcuta. Founded on 10 September 1924, it is one of the oldest active football clubs in the co ...

on 12 June 2014, but resigned the following 9 March. Suárez returned to América de Cali on 13 August 2015, as the club was struggling to achieve promotion from the second division. He left the club in April of the following year, and was subsequently replaced by

Hernán Torres Hernán Torres Oliveros (born 31 May 1961) is a Colombian Manager (association football), football manager and former player who played as a Goalkeeper (association football), goalkeeper. Playing career Torres started his career with Deportes ...

; América went on to finally achieve promotion back to the top tier as champions. On 2 January 2017, Suárez was named at the helm of second division side

Deportes Quindío Deportes Quindío is a Colombian professional football club based in Armenia that currently plays in the Categoría Primera B. The club was founded on 8 January 1951, and its best achievement was winning the 1956 league tournament. They play thei ...

. After three seasons missing out promotion in the final stages, he left the club, and returned to Jaguares on 17 July 2020. Suárez opted to leave Jaguares in May 2021, and was named manager of

Envigado Envigado () is a city and municipality due South of Medellín, Colombia in the department of Antioquia Department, Antioquia. It is located in the Metropolitan Area of the Aburrá Valley. It borders El Poblado, Medellín to the north, Sabaneta, An ...

shortly after. He managed Envigado for two years, leaving on 25 July 2023 after a poor start to the 2023 Finalización tournament.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Suarez, Alberto 1961 births Living people Sportspeople from Cali Colombian football managers Categoría Primera A managers Deportivo Pereira managers América de Cali managers Unión Magdalena managers Cúcuta Deportivo managers Deportes Quindío managers Envigado F.C. managers Jaguares de Córdoba managers Real Cartagena managers