Gustavo Alfaro

Gustavo Alfaro interests me as a coach far more than as the player he briefly was. A modest playing career, capped by captaining Atletico Rafaela to promotion in 1989, gave way to a long life in the dugout that took him across South America and into national team management. I read that arc as someone who understood early that his real gift was reading the game from the side, not playing it. Retiring at thirty to coach is a clear-eyed decision I find admirable. To me Alfaro represents the journeyman who becomes a strategist, building authority through study rather than highlight reels.

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Name (English)

Gustavo Alfaro

Name (Japanese)

グスタボ・アルファロ

Reading

ぐすたぼ・あるふぁろ

Born

August 14, 1962 (age 64)

Origin

Rafaela, Santa Fe Province, Argentina

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Tiger

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gustavo%20Alfaro
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%B0%E3%82%B9%E3%82%BF%E3%83%9C%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%95%E3%82%A1%E3%83%AD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q5621337

Tags

• Santa Fe Province
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

November 2, 2026

Only publicly available facts are listed; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. Base data was compiled from Wikidata from June 2026 onward; ages are recalculated daily and deaths are checked against Wikidata on an ongoing basis. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.