Osvaldo Giménez

Osvaldo Giménez

Personal information
Full name	Osvaldo Wilson Giménez Toledo
Date of birth	(1959-09-05) 5 September 1959 (age 65)
Place of birth	Montevideo, Uruguay
Team information
Current team	C.A. Peñarol (sporting director)
Managerial career
Years	Team
1991–1994	Uruguay Montevideo
1994–1997	Uruguay (assistant)
1998	Tianjin Teda
1998–2006	Uruguay (general manager)
2006–2007	Shanghai United
2007	Shanghai Shenhua
2009	Shanghai Shenhua (managing director)
2009–	C.A. Peñarol (sporting director)

Osvaldo Wilson Giménez Toledo (born 5 September 1959 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan football manager and currently sporting director at C.A. Peñarol.

Career

In June 1998, Osvaldo Giménez was appointed head coach of Tianjin Teda F.C. in the second tier league of China, as replacement for local coach Lin Xinjiang. The same year, Tianjin was promoted to Chinese Jia-A League without losing one game in the whole season, but Giménez decided to work for the Uruguay national football team at the end of the season.

Giménez returned to China after eight years. He took over as head coach of Shanghai United F.C. on 6 June 2006, replacing Brazilian Jose Carlos.^[1] In 2007, the club owner Zhu Jun and his company The9 Limited bought a majority share of inner-city rival of Shanghai Shenhua F.C. and began to merge Shanghai United into Shanghai Shenhua. Zhu Jun also announced that Osvaldo Giménez would replace the previously successful existing head coach of Shanghai Shenhua, Wu Jingui.^[2] With him at the helm, Shanghai Shenhua had won the A3 Champions Cup in 2007. However, he was sacked on 1 October for poor performance in the league.^[3]

He returned to Shanghai Shenhua in December 2008, and was appointed the club's first-ever foreign managing director.^[4]

At the end of season 2009, Giménez backed Uruguay again and was hired as sporting director of C.A. Peñarol.^[5]

References

1. 卡洛斯下课吉梅内斯上任 远期目标率领联城夺冠 (in Chinese)
2. "Gimenez to coach newly combined Shanghai Shenhua". Chinaview.cn. 17 February 2007. Archived from the original on December 18, 2007. Retrieved 10 April 2012.
3. 吉梅内斯正式下课 (in Chinese)
4. 关系很铁符合朱骏口味 吉梅内斯出任申花总经理 (in Chinese)
5. Osvaldo Giménez ya fue presentado en Peñarol(in Spanish)

External links

• C.A. Peñarol profile (in Spanish)