Raúl Ernesto Cardozo (born 28 October 1967) is a former Argentine
football
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defender who is one of the most important players in the history of
Vélez Sársfield.
Career
Cardozo, nicknamed ''Pacha'' was born in
Morón and started his playing career with
Vélez Sársfield during the 1986–87 season. He went on to play over 350 games for the club. He played during the golden era of the club in the mid-1990s when they won 9 major titles.
Cardozo helped Velez to win their first league title in 25 years when they claimed the
Clausura 1993 championship. The following season they won the
Copa Libertadores
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and the
Copa Intercontinental
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.
Velez won both league titles during the
1995–96 season.
In 1997 Cardozo was called up to join the
Argentina squad to play in the
1997 Copa América
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.
His last major title with Velez was the
Clausura 1998 championship.
In 1999 Cardozo left Velez, he played for a number of different teams:
Newell's Old Boys
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A ...
and
Chacarita Juniors
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in the
Argentine Primera,
Nacional
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in
Uruguay
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, where he won a league title,
Olimpia in
Paraguay
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and finally
Villa Dálmine
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in the lower leagues of Argentine football.
Coaching career
Cardozo had been the assistant manager of
Omar Asad
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As a player, Asad spent all of his career in Vélez Sársfield, winni ...
at
Godoy Cruz and
Sportivo Estudiantes. In March 2019, he was appointed manager of
Club Almirante Brown
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. He left the club again at the end of June 2019.
Pacha Cardozo dejó de ser el entrenador de Almirante Brown
tycsports.com, 26 June 2019
Honours
Club
;Vélez Sársfield
* Torneo Apertura: 1995
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* World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War
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* Torneo Clausura: 1993
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* International Year for the World's Indigenous People
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, 1996
1996 was designated as:
* International Year for the Eradication of Poverty
Events January
* January 8 – A Zairean cargo plane crashes into a crowded market in the center of the capital city of the Democratic Republic of the Congo ...
, 1998
1998 was designated as the ''International Year of the Ocean''.
Events January
* January 6 – The ''Lunar Prospector'' spacecraft is launched into orbit around the Moon, and later finds evidence for Lunar water, frozen water, in soil i ...
* Copa Libertadores
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: 1994
The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations.
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* Intercontinental Cup: 1994
The year 1994 was designated as the " International Year of the Family" and the "International Year of Sport and the Olympic Ideal" by the United Nations.
In the Line Islands and Phoenix Islands of Kiribati, 1994 had only 364 days, omitti ...
* Copa Interamericana
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: 1994
* Supercopa Sudamericana
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: 1996
* Recopa Sudamericana
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: 1997
;Nacional
* Primera División Uruguaya
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: 2001
;Villa Dálmine
* Primera C Metropolitana Apertura: 2002
References
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1967 births
Living people
Footballers from Morón Partido
Argentine men's footballers
Men's association football defenders
Club Atlético Vélez Sarsfield footballers
Newell's Old Boys footballers
Chacarita Juniors footballers
Club Olimpia footballers
Club Nacional de Football players
Copa Libertadores–winning players
Argentine Primera División players
Expatriate men's footballers in Uruguay
Expatriate men's footballers in Paraguay
Argentina men's international footballers
Argentine expatriate men's footballers
1997 Copa América players
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Uruguay
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Paraguay
20th-century Argentine sportsmen