PLAYER DETAILS
Omar Asad profile
- Club
- Godoy Cruz
- Position
- Manager
- Nationality
- Argentina
- Date of birth
- 1971-04-09
- Birthplace
- Buenos Aires, Argentina
- Height
- 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
PLAYER BIOGRAPHY
About Omar Asad
Omar Andrés Asad (born 9 April 1971) is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a forward. He is the current manager of Godoy Cruz.
As a player, Asad spent all of his career in Vélez Sársfield, winning 8 titles with the club (including both the Copa Libertadores and the Intercontinental Cup).
Asad is nicknamed el Turco (in English: "the Turk") because he has Syrian and Lebanese ethnicity. In Argentina, Arabs are usually mistakenly called Turks since they came to the country with Ottoman Turkish documents in the 1900s.