Miguel Ángel Russo

What strikes me about Miguel Angel Russo is the rare loyalty of his playing days: an entire career as a defensive midfielder at Estudiantes de La Plata, never chasing a bigger badge. That same constancy carried into management, where he logged over a thousand matches across more than thirty years. I tend to admire coaches who stay in the trenches that long rather than burning bright and fading. An Argentine football lifer from Lanus, he passed in October 2025, and the sheer length of his bench career tells me he was the kind of figure clubs trusted to steady a dressing room when things got rocky.

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Name (English)

Miguel Ángel Russo

Name (Japanese)

ミゲル・アンヘル・ルッソ

Reading

みげる・あんへる・るっそ

Born

April 9, 1956

Origin

Lanús, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina

Height

175 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aries / Monkey

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miguel%20%C3%81ngel%20Russo
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9F%E3%82%B2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A2%E3%83%B3%E3%83%98%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%83%E3%82%BD
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2718418

Tags

• Buenos Aires Province
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

September 18, 2026

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