Julio Asad, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Julio Asad

Argentinian association football player and association football manager

Date of Birth: 07-Jun-1953

Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Profession: association football manager, association football player

Nationality: Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

Julio Daniel Asad (born 7 June 1953, in Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine former footballer and manager.
As a player, he played as a midfielder, and participated with Argentina in Copa América 1975. The nickname 'El Turco' is because Asad has Syrian and Lebanese ethnicity.
In Argentina, Arabs are usually mistakenly called Turks since they came to Argentina with Ottoman Turkish documents in the 1900s.
After he retired from professional football, he became a manager.
He has coached clubs in Argentina, Ecuador, Saudi Arabia, and El Salvador. He is the uncle of Omar Asad, who was also a successful player for Vélez in the 1990s.