Jorge Hernán Bermúdez Morales (born 18 June 1971) is a retired

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defender. He played 56 times for the Colombia national team between 1995 and 2001.

Playing career

Bermúdez played at the club level for several teams in Colombia including Deportes Quindío, América de Cali, Deportivo Quevedo, Deportivo Pereira and Independiente Santa Fe. He started his career with Deportes Quindio which was also the team he finished his career with 17 years later. Bermúdez also played for a number of clubs outside Colombia including Benfica (Portugal),

Boca Juniors Club Atlético Boca Juniors () is an Argentine professional sports club based in La Boca, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The club is best known for its men's professional Association football, football team which, since its promotion in 1913 ...

(Argentina), Olympiakos Pireus (Greece),

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(Argentina) and Barcelona Guayaquil (Ecuador). During his time with Boca Juniors he won a number of major titles including the

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and Copa Intercontinental in 2000 and three league titles ( Ap 1998, Cl 1999 & Ap 2000). He was a participant at the

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and went on to play 56 times for the full international squad including appearances at the

1998 FIFA World Cup The 1998 FIFA World Cup was the 16th FIFA World Cup, the Association football, football world championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's national teams. The finals tournament was held in France from 10 June to 1 ...

and in three editions of the

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1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

1997 Events January * January 1 – The Emergency Alert System is introduced in the United States. * January 11 – Turkey threatens Cyprus on account of a deal to buy Russian S-300 missiles, prompting the Cypriot Missile Crisis. * January 1 ...

and

1999 1999 was designated as the International Year of Older Persons. Events January * January 1 – The euro currency is established and the European Central Bank assumes its full powers. * January 3 – The Mars Polar Lander is launc ...

Later and coaching career

After retiring, Bermúdez managed Depor Jamundí, Deportivo Pasto and América de Cali. In September 2010, Bermúdez was appointed manager of the

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2nd division side Defensa y Justicia. He left the position on 23 November 2010 after five defeats and two draws. Bermúdez worked as a TV-pundit and commentator at

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for a few years, before he was appointed sporting director of

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on 6 December 2016. On 22 May 2017, Bermúdez was appointed caretaker manager of

after the coach was fired. He left Huile in June 2017. In December 2019, Bermúdez was back in football, when he was appointed as a member of Boca Juniors Soccer Council, led by newly appointed vice-president Juan Román Riquelme.

Club statistics

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International goals

Honours

América de Cali * Primera A: 1990, 1992 Boca Juniors * Primera División: 1998 Apertura, 1999 Clausura, 2000 Apertura *

2000 2000 was designated as the International Year for the Culture of Peace and the World Mathematics, Mathematical Year. Popular culture holds the year 2000 as the first year of the 21st century and the 3rd millennium, because of a tende ...

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

* Intercontinental Cup:

Olympiacos *

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: 2001–02, 2002–03 Individual *South American Team of the Year: 1997, 1998, 2000

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