Juan Carlos Álvarez (Colombian footballer)

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Juan Carlos Álvarez
Personal information
Full name	Juan Carlos Álvarez Cárdenas
Date of birth	(1966-02-14) 14 February 1966 (age 58)
Place of birth	Medellín, Colombia
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Boyacá Chicó (manager)
Youth career
1983–1986	Atlético Nacional
1987	Independiente Medellín
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1988–1989	Cúcuta Deportivo
1991–1993	Deportivo Rionegro
1994–1996	Deportivo Antioquia [es]
1997	Deportes Quindío
1998	Atlético Bucaramanga
1999	Cúcuta Deportivo
Managerial career
2002–2003	Florida Soccer (youth)
2004–2005	Florida Soccer [es] (assistant)
2006–2008	Deportivo Rionegro (assistant)
2009–2013	Envigado (assistant)
2013–2014	Independiente Medellín (assistant)
2016–2018	Leones
2019	Unión Magdalena (assistant)
2024	Boyacá Chicó (assistant)
2024–	Boyacá Chicó
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Juan Carlos Álvarez Cárdenas (born 14 February 1966) is a Colombian football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is the current manager of Boyacá Chicó.

Playing career

Born in Medellín, Álvarez represented Atlético Nacional and Independiente Medellín as a youth, but made his senior debut with Cúcuta Deportivo in 1988. After his contract ended in 1989, he worked at the Banco Cafetero [es] before returning to football in 1991 with Deportivo Rionegro.^[1]

Álvarez subsequently played for Deportivo Antioquia [es], Deportes Quindío and Atlético Bucaramanga before retiring with Cúcuta in 1999.^[1]

Managerial career

After retiring, Álvarez studied in the Cooperative University of Colombia before joining Florida Soccer as a manager of the under-15 squad. In 2004, he became the assistant of Carlos Pachamé at Antioquia, before joining Óscar Aristizábal [es]'s staff at Rionegro under the same role in 2006.^[2]

Álvarez followed Aristizábal's staff to Envigado in 2009, also as an assistant.^[2] In the following year, he remained at the club despite the managerial change with Pedro Sarmiento, and subsequently followed him to Independiente Medellín.^[2]

In December 2015, after spending the previous year travelling in Spain, Álvarez became the manager of Categoría Primera B side Leones.^[3] He led the club to a first-ever promotion to the top tier in 2017,^[4]

Álvarez left Leones by mutual consent on 24 August 2018, with the club sitting bottom of the table.^[5] In the following year, he rejoined Sarmiento's staff at Unión Magdalena, returning to an assistant role.

In March 2022, Álvarez was appointed manager of the Antioquia regional team.^[6] He was also an assistant of Jhon Jaime Gómez at Boyacá Chicó in 2024, before becoming manager of the club on 27 October of that year.^[7]

References

^ ^a ^b "El técnico Juan Carlos Álvarez de Leones, con una extraordinaria hoja de vida" [Manager Juan Carlos Álvarez from Leones, with an extraordinary resumee] (in Spanish). El Escenario de los Clásicos. 8 November 2016. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
^ ^a ^b ^c "Hoja de vida brillante: Juan Carlos Álvarez, de Leones" [Brilliant resumee: Juan Carlos Álvarez, from Leones] (in Spanish). Cápsulas. 24 December 2017. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
^ "Leones estrena cuerpo técnico" [Leones debut technical staff] (in Spanish). Colombia Sports. 29 December 2015. Archived from the original on 28 January 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
^ "Juan Carlos Álvarez el nuevo técnico antioqueño que dirigirá en la primera división" [Juan Carlos Álvarez, the new antioqueño manager who will manage in the first division] (in Spanish). Telemedellín. 1 January 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
^ "Juan Carlos Álvarez dejó la dirección técnica de Leones" [Juan Carlos Álvarez left the technical direction of Leones] (in Spanish). Caracol Radio. 24 August 2018. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
^ "¡Bienvenido a la Selección Antioquia profesor Juan Carlos Álvarez!" [Welcome to the Antioquia team professor Juan Carlos Álvarez!] (in Spanish). Liga Antioqueña de Fútbol. 10 March 2022. Retrieved 28 October 2024.
^ "Juan Carlos Álvarez, nuevo DT de Boyacá Chicó" [Juan Carlos Álvarez, new manager of Boyacá Chicó] (in Spanish). Diario AS. 27 October 2024. Retrieved 28 October 2024.

External links

Juan Carlos Álvarez coach profile at Soccerway

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Álvarez (Boyacá Chicó)
González (Deportes Tolima)
S. Herrera (Deportivo Cali)
Florentín (Deportivo Pasto)
Suárez (Deportivo Pereira)
Orozco ^c (Envigado)
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Restrepo (Independiente Medellín)
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Gamero (Millonarios)
H. Herrera (Once Caldas)
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v t e Boyacá Chicó – managers
Pacheco (2002) Pimentel (2003–05) Vanemerak (2005) Gamero (2005–13) Pérez (2014) Lara (2015) Pimentel (2015) Pérez (2016) Sierra (2016) N. Gómez^c (2016) Sierra (2016) Olveira (2016–17) J.J. Gómez (2017–20) Aguilar (2020–21) García (2021–23) Aguilar (2023) Caneo (2024) J.J. Gómez^c (2024) Migliaccio (2024) Álvarez (2024–) (c) = caretaker manager