Omar Asad, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Omar Asad

Argentine association football player and manager

Date of Birth: 09-Apr-1971

Place of Birth: Buenos Aires, Argentina

Profession: association football manager, association football player

Nationality: Argentina

Zodiac Sign: Aries

Omar Andrés Asad (born 9 April 1971) is an Argentine football manager and former player and current coach, who played as a forward. As a player, Asad spent all of his career in Vélez Sársfield, winning 8 titles with the club (including both the Copa Libertadores and the Intercontinental Cup). Asad is nicknamed el Turco (in English: "the Turk") because he has Syrian and Lebanese ethnicity.
In Argentina, Arabs are usually mistakenly called Turks since they came to the country with Ottoman Turkish documents in the 1900s.