Obviously not an internationally recognised name because he only played in Latam and almost exclusively coached in Argentina, but Julio César Falcioni is a former GK that also had a very extensive managerial career.

As a player he mostly played for Vélez, and the Colombian team América de Cali, where his team infamously lost 3 Libertadores finals in a row.

As a manager, he always managed here apart from a brief stint in Católica in Chile. He managed a fuckton of teams, but he is mostly known for being one of the biggest legends of Banfield. He coached them to their only ever top flight title in 2009, with an 18 year old James Rodríguez as one of their stars. In subsequent years he came back several times to Banfield always trying to save them from going down and he always succeeded lol, including qualifying for Copa Libertadores once.

Outside of Banfield i would say his best achievement is reaching the Copa Libertadores final with Boca Juniors in 2012, when he lost against the Corinthians team that would eventually beat Chelsea to win the CWC.

Well… my city is Buenos Aires so a big part of Argentina’s professional football is here, either in the city proper or in the surrounding area.

If we only count the city proper, we have:

• Top flight: Argentinos Juniors, Barracas Central, Boca Juniors, Huracán, River Plate, San Lorenzo, Vélez
• B Nacional (second tier): All Boys, Almagro*, Chacarita Juniors*, Defensores de Belgrano, Ferro, Nueva Chicago, Deportivo Riestra
• B Metropolitana (third tier): Comunicaciones, Sacachispas
• Primera C (fourth tier): Deportivo Español, Excursionistas, General Lamadrid, Yupanqui
• Primera D (fifth tier - not professional): Deportivo Paraguayo, Lugano, Sportivo Barracas

* These clubs were originally founded and still have their headquarters in the neighborhoods of Almagro and Chacarita respectively, however, their current stadiums are located outside of the city proper.

So, thats a total of 23 clubs, including several of the biggest clubs of the country. And thats only counting the city proper, which is where i was born and live. If we count the metropolitan area, the amount of clubs increases exponentially, there would be too many to count lol.

36 year old Suárez, with half a knee, carrying a newly promoted team (still one of the biggest of the country, but not one people expected to be in title contention at the start of the season) to the title, in one of if not the most physically demanding league in the world, would be absolutely insane, one of the stories of the decade for sure.