Jorge Daniel Fossati Lurachi (born 22 November 1952 in Montevideo) is a former football goalkeeper, mainly in Peñarol, and the current manager of SC Internacional. While playing at Peñarol, he helped the club win five league titles. He also had spells in Argentina with Independiente and Rosario Central, in Chile with Green Cross Temuco and with Brazilian team Coritiba.

He played for Mandiyú de Corrientes, of Argentina in 1987 and in 1988, and respectively played for Brazilian clubs Avaí in 1989, and Coritiba in 1990.^[1]

[edit] Titles as a player

Season	Team	Title
1973	Peñarol	Uruguayan Primera
1974	Peñarol	Uruguayan Primera
1975	Peñarol	Uruguayan Primera
1978	Peñarol	Uruguayan Primera
1979	Peñarol	Uruguayan Primera
1983	Olimpia	Paraguayan Primera
1986-87	Rosario Central	Argentine Primera
1988	Avaí Futebol Clube	Santa Catarina State Championship

[edit] Managerial career

After retiring as a player he had spells in charge of River Plate Montevideo Peñarol and Danubio F.C. in Uruguay. He had a spells as manager of Colón de Santa Fe in Argentina, Cerro Porteño in Paraguay and LDU Quito in Ecuador.

He became manager of the Uruguayan national team in 2004^[2]. He coached Al-Sadd in Qatar and after winning all four domestic titles with them, was unveiled as the new Qatari national team manager in 2007^[3]. In late 2008, it was announced that he would undergo surgery. Subsequently, the Qatar FA ended their cooperation with Fossati, who supposedly needed too long to recover from surgery.

In 2009 Fossati signed with LDU Quito from Ecuador to manage the team for the second time. He helped LDU Quito win the Recopa Sudamericana 2009 matches against Sport Club Internacional de Porto Alegre . LDU Quito won both games of the Recopa 1-0 and 3-0, respectively. This gave LDU Quito their second international title. After that he led them in the Peace Cup 2009 held in Spain. LDU were drawn in Group B, along with Spanish giants Real Madrid and Saudi outfit Al-Ittihad^[4]. Although LDU won defeated Al-Ittihad 3-1 in their first game, they bowed out of the competition after losing 2-4 to Real Madrid, a match which saw Cristiano Ronaldo's first goal for Real Madrid.

After Internacional and Mário Sergio parted ways, as per their previous agreement, the Brazilian club turned to the foreign market in South America and reached a deal with Fossati. The Uruguayan is fluent in Portuguese and lived in Brazil during the 1980s. On 13 December 2009 the Uruguayan coach has left LDU Quito to join Internacional Porto Alegre for one year.

[edit] References

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