Omar Asad (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Omar Andr?'s Asad (born April 9, 1971) is an Argentine football manager and former player. He currently manages Emelec in Ecuador. As a player, Asad spent all of his career in V lez S rsfield, winning 8 titles with the club (including both the Copa Libertadores and the Intercontinental Cup). Asad is nicknamed el Turco (in English: "the Turkish") because he has Syrian and Lebanese ethnicity. In Argentina Arabs are usually mistakenly called Turks since they came to the country with Ottoman documents in the 1900s. Asad played as a striker and was characterised by being strong and quick. His first match in the Argentine Primera Divisi n came in 1992, when he played for V lez S rsfield against Talleres de C rdoba.