Carlos Bilardo

Carlos Bilardo is one of the most improbable figures in football, and I mean that as the highest praise. A trained gynecologist and physician who steered Argentina to the 1986 World Cup, he carried a surgeon's precision onto the touchline. The tactical scaffolding he built around Maradona had the cold logic of an operating theatre, and he nearly retained the title in 1990. I love the contradiction: a University of Buenos Aires medical man winning the most passionate nation's crown through sheer reasoning. Bilardo proved football is played as much with the mind as the feet.

Name (English)

Carlos Bilardo

Name (Japanese)

カルロス・ビラルド

Reading

かるろす・びらるど

Born

March 16, 1939 (age 87)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Rabbit

Origin

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Height

174 cm

Occupation

association football player / journalist / physician / association football coach / gynecologist

University

University of Buenos Aires

• Official sitehttp://www.carlosbilardo.com/index_new.asp
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlos%20Bilardo
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%AB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%AD%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%83%93%E3%83%A9%E3%83%AB%E3%83%89
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q360765

Tags

• association football player
• journalist
• physician

Last updated

2026-06-24

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.