Héctor "Bambino" Veira (born May 29, 1946 in Buenos Aires

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) is a former Argentine

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 footballer

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. He since retiring as a player he has gone on to win several major titles as a manager.

Playing career

Veira started his professional career in 1963 with San Lorenzo

Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro

Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro is an Argentine sports club based in Boedo neighbourhood, Buenos Aires, mostly known because of its football team....

, in 1964 he became the topscorer

Primera División Argentina topscorers

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 in the Argentina Primera División

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 at the age of only 18.In 1967 Veira received his first call up to the Argentina national football team

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 and in 1968 he helped San Lorenzo to win the Metropolitano without losing a game, to become the first team in the professional era of Argentine football to become unbeaten champions.In 1970 Veira joined Huracán

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, the club he hed supported as a boy. He then had a spell with Santos Laguna

Santos Laguna

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 in Mexico

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 before returning to San Lorenzo in 1973. In his later career he played for Club Atlético Banfield

Club Atlético Banfield

Club Atlético Banfield is an Argentine sports club located in the city of Banfield, part of Lomas de Zamora, Buenos Aires province. Founded on 21 January 1896 by residents of the town of British origin , its main activity is football...

 in Argentina , Sevilla

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 in Spain

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, Corinthians

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 in Brazil

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, CSD Comunicaciones in Guatemala

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 and Universidad de Chile.

Titles as a player

Season	Team	Title
Metropolitano 1968	San Lorenzo Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro is an Argentine sports club based in Boedo neighbourhood, Buenos Aires, mostly known because of its football team....	Primera División Argentina Primera División Argentina The Primera División is a professional football league in Argentina. It is the country's premier football division and is at the top of the Argentine football league system. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Primera B Nacional. The season runs...

Managerial career

Veira started his managerial career with San Lorenzo in 1980, he then had a short stint in charge of Vélez Sársfield

Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield

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 before joining River Plate

Club Atlético River Plate

Club Atlético River Plate is an Argentine sports club based in the Nuñez neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its professional football team, which currently competes in Nacional B, the second tier of Argentine football....

 in 1985. Veira had a productive time in charge of River Plate, he led them to the 1985-1986 championship. In 1986 he led them to their first ever victory in the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Intercontinental later that year. In 1987 Veira returned to San Lorenzo where he stayed until 1990. He then returned to the club again in 1992, leading them to the 1995 Clausura championship. In 1996 he became the manager of Boca Juniors, staying with the club until 1998 when he took over as the coach of Bolivia

Bolivia national football team

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. In 2000 he became manager of Club Atlético Lanús

Club Atlético Lanús

Club Atlético Lanús is a sports club from Lanús, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. Founded on 3 January 1915, the club's main sports are football and basketball. In both sports, Lanús plays in Argentina's top divisions: Primera División and Liga Nacional de Básquet...

 and in 2002 he took charge of Newell's Old Boys

Newell's Old Boys

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.After retiring as manager of Quilmes

Quilmes Atlético Club

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 after only one month in charge Veira returned to San Lorenzo for a fourth time in 2004, by the end of this period, he had been manager of San Lorenzo for 371 games, making him San Lorenzo's longest serving manager in their history.

Titles as a manager

Season	Team	Title
1985–1986	Club Atlético River Plate Club Atlético River Plate Club Atlético River Plate is an Argentine sports club based in the Nuñez neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its professional football team, which currently competes in Nacional B, the second tier of Argentine football....	Primera División Argentina Primera División Argentina The Primera División is a professional football league in Argentina. It is the country's premier football division and is at the top of the Argentine football league system. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Primera B Nacional. The season runs...
1986	Club Atlético River Plate Club Atlético River Plate Club Atlético River Plate is an Argentine sports club based in the Nuñez neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its professional football team, which currently competes in Nacional B, the second tier of Argentine football....	Copa Libertadores
1986	Club Atlético River Plate Club Atlético River Plate Club Atlético River Plate is an Argentine sports club based in the Nuñez neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its professional football team, which currently competes in Nacional B, the second tier of Argentine football....	Copa Intercontinental
1995 Clausura	San Lorenzo Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro Club Atlético San Lorenzo de Almagro is an Argentine sports club based in Boedo neighbourhood, Buenos Aires, mostly known because of its football team....	Primera División Argentina Primera División Argentina The Primera División is a professional football league in Argentina. It is the country's premier football division and is at the top of the Argentine football league system. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Primera B Nacional. The season runs...

Scandal

In 1987 Veira was accused of molesting a 13 year old youth team player at River Plate named Sebastián Candelmo, Veira resigned as manager but the allegations did not go away. In 1991 he was found guilty of the offence and sentenced to six years in prison. In 1992 he was given a conditional discharge and returned to work as manager of San Lorenzo. Veira always maintained his innocence, and claimed that the boy was instructed to make the allegations by his mother, for financial gain.

Personality

He is famous for having a series of bon mots and a very distinctive sense of humour. Some of his classic phrases are:

• "¿Qué me parece el hotel?... Un poco antiguo... yo creo que acá mataron a Drácula, nene" ("What do I think about the hotel?...It's a little old... I think Dracula was killed here")
• " Pusimos un micro en el arco y la metieron por la ventanilla" ("We put a bus in the goal but they put the ball through the window")
• "¿Viste qué calor estuvo haciendo en Buenos Aires? Terrible, hasta Tarzán se insoló..." ("Have you felt the heat in Buenos Aires? Terrible, even Tarzan got heatstroke")
• "Pibe, yo tengo un laburo más difícil que el plomero del Titanic" ("Kid, my job is harder than that of the Titanic's plumber")
• "¿Viste lo que es ese pibe? Va, viene... va, viene... parece una autopista" ("Did you see that kid? He goes, he comes, he goes, he comes... he looks like a highway")
• "¡Pibe! vos no podés ir al ataque ni con ametralladora" (Kid! You can't go in attack even with a machine gun!)
• "¡Es una cosa de locos!" ("It's a madmen thing!")
• "Me gusta tanto la noche que al día le pondría un toldo" ("I enjoy the night so much that I would pull a blind on the day")
• "Para mí el fútbol es... BELLEEEEZZZA" ("To me football is... Beeeeauuuuty")
• "Iván de Pineda
  Iván de Pineda
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  es una torrrrmenta de facha" ("Iván De Pineda is a cool look storrrrm")
• "Qué dupla esa, este (Ruggeri) y el 'Tano' Gutiérrez, ay mamita, criminal , criminal... era Vietnam")
• "¡Estos pibes tiran paredes en un campo minado!" ("This kids are playing 'walls' even at a mined-camp!")
• "Esta zona de la cancha de San Lorenzo es terrible, acá lo asaltaron a Rambo" ("This neighbourhood where San Lorenzo stadium is placed, is horrific, Rambo was robbed around here")
• "Entiendo la situación del club, pero yo pedí un cuatro y me trajeron un pomelo..."("I understands the club situation, but I asked for a right defender and they brought me a grapefruit").