Rubén Cousillas Fuse (born 9 May 1957 in Roque Pérez) is an Argentinian

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assistant manager and former player, who is assistant manager at Betis to

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Playing career

Cousillas started his career at San Lorenzo with whom he won promotion to Primera División del Fútbol Argentino in the year

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. In addition, he also played for Millonarios in Bogota, with which he won three Colombian titles. He also played for Vélez Sársfield, Deportivo Mandiyú and

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as well as Huachipato, where he ended his playing career.

Management and coaching career

Cousillas began his career as a coach for

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, before moving on to

, where he worked under Chiche Sosa. In 1998, Cousillas returned to his former playing club San Lorenzo, to become assistant to

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. When Ruggeri was replaced by

, Cousillas struck a great working partnership with the Chilean, and followed him to River Plate,

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and

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. On 14 June 2013, it was announced that Cousillas would be joining

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as co-assistant, alongside Brian Kidd. Cousillas took caretaker charge of Manchester City in their 2-1 UEFA Champions League defeat to

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due to manager

having a three match UEFA ban for criticizing the referee in the first leg. When Pellegrini left Manchester City in June 2016 on the expiry of his contract, Cousillas also left along with the remainder of Pellegrini's staff (not including Brian Kidd). In 2018, he joined Pellegrini as a coach at

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, leaving in December 2019 when Pellegrini was sacked.

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