Julio Olarticoechea

Julio Olarticoechea belongs to the kind of footballer history tends to underrate, and I think that is unfair. A defender from Saladillo who lifted the 1986 World Cup with Argentina, he did it at 170 cm through grit and reading the game rather than physical dominance. The detail that always gets me is that he roomed with Maradona in Mexico; imagine sharing those nights with a man being mythologized in real time. He later turned to coaching, passing the craft forward. I have a soft spot for the unglamorous players who anchor a triumph, and Olarticoechea is exactly the sort I want remembered.

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Name (English)

Julio Olarticoechea

Name (Japanese)

フリオ・オラルティコエチェア

Reading

ふりお・おらるてぃこえちぇあ

Born

October 18, 1958 (age 68)

Origin

Saladillo, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Height

170 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Libra / Dog

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julio%20Olarticoechea
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%83%AA%E3%82%AA%E3%83%BB%E3%82%AA%E3%83%A9%E3%83%AB%E3%83%86%E3%82%A3%E3%82%B3%E3%82%A8%E3%83%81%E3%82%A7%E3%82%A2
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q516892

Tags

• Buenos Aires 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.