Héctor Rivoira

Héctor Rivoira
Personal information
Full name	Héctor Oscar Rivoira
Date of birth	April 10, 1960
Place of birth	Ituzaingó, Argentina
Date of death	August 14, 2019 (aged 59)
Position(s)	A la defensiva
Youth career
	River Plate
Senior career*
Years	Team
1981–1984	Almirante Brown
1985–1987	Deportivo Italia
1987–1989	Lanús
1989–1991	Defensores de Belgrano
1991–1992	Ituzaingó
Managerial career
1992–1994	Ituzaingó
1995	Almirante Brown
1995–1996	Nueva Chicago
1997	Deportivo Italia
1997–2000	Chacarita Juniors
2000–2001	Quilmes
2002–2003	LDU Quito
2003–2004	Instituto
2004–2005	Ferro Carril Oeste
2005–2007	Chacarita Juniors
2007	Instituto
2008–2009	Atlético Tucumán
2009–2010	Huracán
2010–2011	Rosario Central
2011	Chacarita Juniors
2011–2012	Olimpo de Bahía Blanca
2012	Huracán
2013–2014	Almirante Brown
2014–2015	Atlético Tucumán
2015–2016	Instituto
2016–2018	Crucero del Norte
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:18, 3 December 2009 (UTC)

Héctor Oscar Rivoira (10 April 1960 – 14 August 2019) was an Argentine football manager and player who worked as the manager of Atlético Tucumán.

Playing career

Rivoira played for the River Plate youth teams but never played for the first team. In 1981, he joined Almirante Brown where he played a total of 155 games. He then joined Deportivo Italia where he had a brief stint as a Primera División player during the 1986-87 season. Later in his career he played for Club Atlético Lanús and Defensores de Belgrano before playing out his career with local side Club Atlético Ituzaingó.

Managerial career

Rivoira was given the job as manager of Club Atlético Ituzaingó in 1992. He also managed a number of other teams in the 2nd division (Primera B Nacional) teams in the 1990s. In 1999 his Chacarita Juniors team was promoted to the Primera Division after a 2nd-place finish. He managed the team for the full Apertura 1999 tournament but was sacked four games into Clausura 2000.^[1]

After a season with Quilmes Rivoira travelled to Ecuador to become manager of LDU Quito.^{[citation needed]}

In 2003, he returned to Argentina and became manager of Instituto de Córdoba and led them to the Primera B Nacional championship^[1] and earned a team promotion to the Primera División for the 2nd time. Following this promotion he was sacked only 9 games into the Primera División season.

He returned to the 2nd tier managing Ferro Carril Oeste and Chacarita Juniors before returning to instituto in 2007.

In 2008, he took over as manager of newly promoted Atlético Tucumán and led them to the 2008-09 Primera B Nacional championship, his 2nd championship and third promotion at this level.^[1] After a poor start to the Primera División season he resigned after 12 games of the Apertura. In December 2009 he was unveiled as the new manager of Club Atlético Huracán, his first appointment as manager of an established Primera División club.^{[citation needed]}

On August 14, 2019, he died at age 59 after struggling for a year with colon cancer.^{[citation needed]}

Titles as a manager

Season	Team	Title
2003-04	Instituto de Córdoba	Primera B Nacional
2008-09	Atlético Tucumán	Primera B Nacional

References

^ ^a ^b ^c 2nd level championship winning managers in Argentina Archived December 8, 2013, at the Wayback Machine at rsssf

External links

Hector Oscar Rivoira at BDFA (in Spanish)
Argentine Primera statistics^[usurped] at Futbol XXI (in Spanish)

[rsssf-1] 2nd level championship winning managers in Argentina Archived December 8, 2013, at the Wayback Machine at rsssf

[1]