Julio César Baldivieso

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Baldivieso and the second or maternal family name is Rico.

Julio César Baldivieso Rico (born 2 December 1971) is a Bolivian football coach and former player who played as an attacking midfielder. He is the current manager of GV San José.

Julio César Baldivieso

Personal information
Full name	Julio César Baldivieso Rico
Date of birth	(1971-12-02) 2 December 1971 (age 52)
Place of birth	Cochabamba, Bolivia
Height	1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s)	Attacking midfielder
Team information
Current team	GV San José (manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1987–1991	Wilstermann
1992–1994	Bolívar
1994–1997	Newell's Old Boys	23	(5)
1996	→ Bolívar (loan)
1997–1998	Yokohama Marinos	54	(19)
1999	Wilstermann
1999	Barcelona SC	17	(4)
2000	Bolívar	14	(8)
2001	Cobreloa	12	(3)
2001–2002	Al-Nassr
2002	Aurora	9	(3)
2002–2003	Al-Nassr
2003	Aurora	9	(3)
2003–2004	Al-Wakra
2004	Caracas	6	(1)
2005	Deportivo Quevedo	10	(2)
2006	The Strongest	6	(2)
2007–2008	Aurora	11	(0)
International career
1991–2005	Bolivia	85	(15)
Managerial career
2008–2009	Aurora
2011	Aurora
2012	Real Potosí
2012	Aurora
2013	Nacional Potosí
2013–2014	San José
2014	Wilstermann
2015	Universitario de Sucre
2015–2016	Bolivia
2017	Carabobo
2017–2018	Palestine
2019	Always Ready
2019	Aurora (assistant)
2020	Aurora
2021	Atlético Palmaflor
2022	Royal Pari
2022	Always Ready
2024–	GV San José
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Baldivieso played for the Bolivia national team at the 1994 World Cup and in several Copa Américas.^{[citation needed]}

Football career

Club

Nicknamed "El Emperador", Baldivieso began his career in his native Cochabamba playing for Wilstermann in 1987. After the World Cup, he transferred to Argentine team Newell's Old Boys from Rosario, where he played until the winter of 97. Subsequently, he joined J1 League club Yokohama Marinos for a couple of years. Towards the end of his career he returned to Bolivia and played for The Strongest, and later made his final run with Aurora on and off the field as he also managed the team.^{[citation needed]}

Throughout his career, Baldivieso also played in 46 Copa Libertadores games altogether for three different teams and scored 11 goals.^[1]

International

Baldivieso made his debut for Bolivia on 14 June 1991 in a friendly match, losing 1–0 against Paraguay in Santa Cruz de la Sierra. He obtained a total number of 85 caps during his career, scoring fifteen goals. He played his last international match on 12 October 2005: a World Cup Qualifier against Peru in Tacna.^{[citation needed]}

Managerial

During his last season as a player Baldivieso transitioned into coaching as he took over the manager position at the club. In November 2008 he won the Clausura tournament with Aurora in a very disputed 3-game final series against Blooming. On 19 July 2009, still being Aurora's manager, he made debut his own 12-year-old son, called Mauricio Baldivieso. At the end of the match he strongly criticized the referee and one opponent who made his son cry after a hard tackle. He quit Aurora 5 days later, after the club's board told him to pick between his job and his son. He also withdrew his son from the team.^[2][3] On 20 May 2011 Baldivieso returned to Aurora for his second spell.^[4] Later in his career he also managed Real Potosí,^[5] Nacional Potosí,^[6] San José,^[7] Wilstermann^[8] and Universitario de Sucre.^[9] On 28 August 2015 Baldivieso was officially presented as the manager for the Bolivia national team.^[10][11]

In late 2017, he became the first Bolivian to coach a foreign national football team from outside the Americas, when he was appointed as coach of Palestine.^[12] He was released in April 2018 due to a series of controversies related between him and Saudi officials.^[13]

On 31 January 2019, Baldivieso was appointed as the manager of Club Always Ready.^[14] On 23 September 2019, Baldi returned to Aurora as a sporting advisor because he couldn't appear as a coach in the official matches, after he already led Club Always Ready in the current 2019 Bolivian Primera División season and, according to the rules, a head coach cannot lead to two clubs in the same contest.^[15] He announced in December 2019, that he would leave the club because it wasn't the same for him to lead from the stands.^[16] However, later on the same month, it was confirmed that Francisco Argüello, who had been Baldi's assistant coach during the last 4–5 years, had taken charge of Aurora and that Baldi would continue at the club as his assistant, now where he couldn't lead the team officially.^[17]

Career statistics

Source: ^[18]

Club performance			League		Cup		League Cup		Total
Season	Club	League	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Argentina			League		Cup		League Cup		Total
1994/95	Newell's Old Boys	Primera División	12	4					12	4
1995/96			11	1					11	1
Bolivia			League		Cup		League Cup		Total
1996	Bolívar	Liga Profesional
Japan			League		Emperor's Cup		J.League Cup		Total
1997	Yokohama Marinos	J1 League	22	9	2	0	5	1	29	10
1998			32	10	1	0	3	1	36	11
Bolivia			League		Cup		League Cup		Total
1999	Jorge Wilstermann	Liga Profesional
Ecuador			League		Cup		League Cup		Total
1999	Barcelona	Serie A	17	4					17	4
Bolivia			League		Cup		League Cup		Total
2000	Bolívar	Liga Profesional	14	8					14	8
Chile			League		Copa Chile		League Cup		Total
2001	Cobreloa	Primera División	12	3					12	3
Saudi Arabia			League		Crown Prince Cup		League Cup		Total
2001/02	Al-Nassr	Professional League
2002/03
Bolivia			League		Cup		League Cup		Total
2003	Aurora	Liga Profesional	9	3					9	3
Qatar			League		Emir Cup		Sheikh Jassem Cup		Total
2003/04	Al-Wakrah	Stars League
Bolivia			League		Cup		League Cup		Total
2004	Aurora	Liga Profesional	7	0					7	0
Venezuela			League		Copa Venezuela		League Cup		Total
2004/05	Caracas	Primera División
2005/06
Bolivia			League		Cup		League Cup		Total
2006	The Strongest	Liga Profesional	6	2					6	2
2007	Bolívar	Liga Profesional	1	0					1	0
2008	Aurora	Liga Profesional	11	0					11	0
Country	Argentina		23	5					23	5
	Bolivia		48	13					48	13
	Japan		54	19	3	0	8	2	65	21
	Ecuador		17	4					17	4
	Chile		12	3					12	3
	Saudi Arabia
	Qatar
	Venezuela
Total			154	44	3	0	8	2	165	46

National team

^[19]

Bolivia national team
Year	Apps	Goals
1991	5	0
1992	0	0
1993	15	0
1994	14	1
1995	8	1
1996	12	3
1997	9	2
1998	0	0
1999	0	0
2000	7	2
2001	8	5
2002	0	0
2003	3	1
2004	2	0
2005	2	0
Total	85	15

International goals

International Goals
#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	26 March 1994	Dallas, United States	United States	0–1	2–2	Friendly
2.	18 June 1995	Valera, Venezuela	Venezuela	1–3	1–3	Friendly
3.	11 February 1996	Lima, Peru	Peru	?–?	1–3	Friendly
4.	24 April 1996	Buenos Aires, Argentina	Argentina	3–1	2–1	World Cup Qualifier
5.	7 July 1996	La Paz, Bolivia	Venezuela	3–0	6–1	World Cup Qualifier
6.	15 June 1997	La Paz, Bolivia	Peru	2–0	2–0	Copa América
7.	18 June 1997	La Paz, Bolivia	Uruguay	1–0	1–0	Copa América
8.	5 March 2000	La Paz, Bolivia	Haiti	3–0	9–2	Friendly
9.	28 June 2000	San Cristóbal, Venezuela	Venezuela	2–2	4–2	World Cup Qualifier
10.	3 June 2001	La Paz, Bolivia	Venezuela	1–0	5–0	World Cup Qualifier
11.	3 June 2001	La Paz, Bolivia	Venezuela	5–0	5–0	World Cup Qualifier
12.	14 August 2001	Santiago, Chile	Chile	0–1	2–2	World Cup Qualifier
13.	7 November 2001	La Paz, Bolivia	Brazil	2–1	3–1	World Cup Qualifier
14.	7 November 2001	La Paz, Bolivia	Brazil	3–1	3–1	World Cup Qualifier
15.	10 September 2003	La Paz, Bolivia	Colombia	1–0	4–0	World Cup Qualifier

Managerial statistics

As of 27 March 2018

Managerial record by team and tenure

Team	From	To	Record
			G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %
Palestine	19 December 2017	22 April 2018	2	0	1	1	0	1	−1	000.00
Career totals			2	0	1	1	0	1	−1	000.00

Personal

His son Mauricio Baldivieso is the youngest player to have played in a professional football match.^[20]

References

1. rsssf: Copa Libertadores statistics
2. Tras el polémico debut, Baldivieso y su hijo se van del Aurora de Bolivia Archived 8 August 2016 at the Wayback Machine diario26.com (in Spanish)
3. DT Baldivieso dejó al Aurora donde hizo debutar a su hijo de 12 años mediotiempo.com (in Spanish)
4. Julio César Baldivieso asume en Aurora Archived 23 April 2011 at the Wayback Machine lostiempos.com (in Spanish)
5. Baldivieso quiere un título con Real Potosí elpotosi.net (in Spanish)
6. Julio César Baldivieso será el nuevo técnico de Nacional Potosí late.com.bo (in Spanish)
7. Julio César Baldivieso es el nuevo entrenador de San José lapatriaenlinea.com (in Spanish)
8. Julio Baldivieso es el nuevo entrenador de Wilstermann erbol.com.bo (in Spanish)
9. Baldivieso es nuevo DT de Universitario eldiario.net (in Spanish)
10. Baldivieso fue presentado como entrenador de Bolivia Archived 29 August 2015 at the Wayback Machine eldeber.com.bo (in Spanish)
11. Baldivieso ya es técnico de la selección; encarará las eliminatorias la-razon.com (in Spanish)
12. "10 Facts: Who is Julio Cesar Baldivieso?". 20 December 2017.
13. "How a Saudi Royal and a Bolivian Coach Led to the Downfall of Palestinian National Soccer". Haaretz.
14. Baldivieso es el nuevo entrenador de Always Ready, lostiempos.com, 31 January 2019
15. Baldivieso se suma a Aurora, late.com.bo, 24 September 2019
16. Julio César Baldivieso dejará Aurora, reduno.com.bo, 4 December 2019
17. Francisco Argüello es el nuevo técnico de Aurora, late.com.bo, 18 December 2019
18. Julio César Baldivieso at National-Football-Teams.com
19. "Julio César Baldivieso – International Appearances". RSSSF.
20. BBC Sport: Bolivian boy sets football record

External links

• Julio César Baldivieso at National-Football-Teams.com
• Julio César Baldivieso at J.League (archive) (in Japanese)
• RSSSF statistics
• Profile. Archived 8 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine. BoliviaGol.com (in Spanish).