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Alberto Rujana

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Alberto Rujana
Personal information
Full name Alberto Rujana Perdomo
Date of birth (1955-03-29) 29 March 1955 (age 69)
Place of birth Beirut, Lebanon
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Right Pointer
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1977 Millonarios
Managerial career
1991 Once Caldas (assistant)[1]
1992–1995 Atlético Huila
1996–1998 Once Caldas (assistant)[2]
1999 Unión Minas
2001–2002 Real Cartagena
2002 Maracaibo
2009–2010 Maracaibo
2010 FAS
2011–2012 Academia (assistant)[3]
2012–2013 Llaneros
2021 Atlético Huila
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Alberto Rujana Perdomo (Hebrew: אלברט רוחנה, Arabic: ألبرتو روجانا; Alberto Rujanah; born 29 March 1955) is a Lebanese writer, athlete and soccer coach of Jewish-Syrian descent. He is a nationalized Colombian.

Trajectory

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Biography

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His family is Syrian - Lebanese made up of his parents and 12 siblings, who in search of a better future in the mid 50's decided to emigrate to Colombia.

They came to the coffee country by boat crossing the entire ocean from their hometown Beirut to the city of Barranquilla. In Colombia they took another boat crossing the Magdalena River to the city of Neiva. Upon arrival, they changed their surnames to "Rujana Perdomo" and continued with their high school studies at the technical college.

Academic training

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Alberto is studying physical education, recreation and sport at the Universidad Surcolombiana. Later he specialized as a soccer technical director in Italy where he did his practices in the AC Milan youth teams.

Debut with Millonarios FC

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Before finishing his university studies, he was contacted by the DT of Millonarios of that time Gabriel Ochoa Uribe who, seeing that he was an outstanding student in all sports, decided to give him the opportunity to prove himself with the ambassador team, with whom he only played 1 professional game in the six months he was there in the position of right pointer.

Managerial career

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Rujana studied around six months in Italy, with teams as AC Milan and Internazionale.[4] The first professional team in which he worked as manager was Atlético Huila, team with which won the 1992 Categoría Primera B season in his first year at the club. On 1999, he becomes manager of Peruvian club Unión Minas. For the 2001, he returns to Colombia, where becomes manager of Real Cartagena, and the next year is hired by Unión Atlético Maracaibo of Venezuela.

In July 2010, he becomes manager of Salvadoran club C.D. FAS, but is fired three months later. In July 2012, he is contracted by the recently founded Categoría Primera B club Llaneros F.C., however he resigned in October 2013.

Personal life

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Rujana was born in Beirut, Lebanon, from Syrian-Lebanese parents. From a family of 12 children, they moved to Vegalarga, a town in Huila. There, they Hispanicized their names and changed their surnames Rujana Perdomo. Rujana is a graduate of the South Colombian University, where he studied Licenciatura en Educación Básica, con énfasis en Educación Física, Recreación y Deportes (Bachelor of Primary Education with emphasis on Physical Education, Recreation and Sports).[1]

Honours

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Atlético Huila

Managerial statistics

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As of 22 October 2013
Team Nation From To Record
G W D L Win %
Atlético Huila Colombia 1 January 1992 30 December 1995 148 50 46 52 033.78
Unión Minas Peru 1 January 1999 30 December 1999 44 13 14 17 029.55
Real Cartagena Colombia 1 January 2001 30 July 2002 66 15 21 30 022.73
Maracaibo Venezuela 1 August 2002[5] 6 October 2002[6] 9 2 4 3 022.22
Maracaibo Venezuela 1 July 2009 30 June 2010 32 9 7 16 028.13
FAS El Salvador 1 July 2010 20 September 2010 12 2 4 6 016.67
Llaneros Colombia 1 July 2012 31 October 2013 70 23 18 29 032.86
Total 381 114 114 153 029.92

Books

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  • Rujana, Alberto. Cómo llegar al pressing –un sistema para no dejar pensar–.
  • Rujana, Alberto. Los espacios en la zona pressing.
  • Rujana, Alberto. Método y eficiencia en el fútbol.
  • Rujana, Alberto. Juegos aplicados a la zona.
  • Rujana, Alberto. El fútbol que no sabemos.

Source: [7]

References

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  1. ^ a b "Alberto Rujana, la soledad del éxito". El Tiempo. 1992.
  2. ^ "Alberto Rujana's profile". worldfootball.net.
  3. ^ "Alberto Rujana Perdomo's profile". Footballzz.co.uk.
  4. ^ Flores, Ricardo (2010). "El Colombiano Alberto Rujana es el nuevo Técnico de nuestra institución..." Club Deportivo FAS.
  5. ^ "La paridad es la consigna". Tal Cual. 2002.
  6. ^ "Deportivo Táchira sorprendió a Estudiantes en el derby andino". El Universal. 2002. Archived from the original on 24 September 2015.
  7. ^ Castañeda, Heliodoro (2012). "Alberto Rujana será el primer DT de Llaneros". Torneo Postobón. Archived from the original on 6 March 2013.
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