Guillermo Barros Schelotto
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Guillermo during a master lecture in 2014. | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Guillermo Barros Schelotto | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 4 May 1973 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | La Plata, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Forward, attacking midfielder, winger | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Vélez Sarsfield (manager) | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| –1985 | For Ever La Plata | ||||||||||||||||
| 1985–1991 | Gimnasia La Plata | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1991–1997 | Gimnasia La Plata | 184 | (49) | ||||||||||||||
| 1997–2007 | Boca Juniors | 300 | (86) | ||||||||||||||
| 2007–2010 | Columbus Crew | 102 | (33) | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Gimnasia La Plata | 20 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 526 | (145) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1995–1999 | Argentina | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | Lanús | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | Palermo | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2018 | Boca Juniors | ||||||||||||||||
| 2019–2020 | LA Galaxy | ||||||||||||||||
| 2021–2023 | Paraguay | ||||||||||||||||
| 2025– | Vélez Sarsfield | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Guillermo Barros Schelotto (Spanish pronunciation: [ɡiˈʎeɾmo ˈβaros eskeˈloto]; born 4 May 1973) is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a forward. He is the current manager of Vélez Sarsfield.
Barros Schelotto played 16 years of his professional career in the Argentine Primera División (six with Gimnasia La Plata and 10 with Boca Juniors). With these two teams, he won a total 17 official titles (one with Gimnasia and 16 with Boca). In 2007, Barros Schelotto left Boca Juniors for Columbus Crew in Major League Soccer, his first move outside his native country. The forward won one league championship and two Supporters' Shields with Columbus as well as two individual awards, before moving back to Gimnasia La Plata in 2011.