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(Redirected from Abel Picabéa)
Argentine footballer and manager
In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Picabea and the second or maternal family name is Allero.
Immediately after retiring Picabea took up coaching, with his first managerial club being Canto do Rio. He subsequently returned to São Cristóvão and won the Taça da Prefeitura do Distrito Federal in 1943.
In 1946, after being in charge of Madureira, Picabea was appointed manager of Santos, becoming the club's first Argentine manager; he is also the foreign manager who managed the club for the most times. He subsequently worked at Portuguesa Santista, América Mineiro, Olaria, Palmeiras, Ferroviária and Portuguesa, winning the Fita Azul with the latter.
Picabea arrived at Sporting CP in the later stages of the 1955–56 season, he was in charge of the club during the whole 1956–57 campaign before taking over Real Oviedo in the Spanish Segunda División. After winning the second division with the club, he was later in charge of neighbouring Sporting de Gijón before returning to Brazil in 1960 with Vasco da Gama.
"Técnicos Estrangeiros" [Foreign managers] (in Brazilian Portuguese). Acervo Santos FC. 23 December 2019. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
"Portuguesa Tri-Fita Azul (1954)" [Portuguesa third time champion of the Fita Azul (1954)] (in Brazilian Portuguese). Acervo da Bola. 9 May 2016. Retrieved 9 December 2020.
