Managers
Main page: :Category:Club Deportivo O'Higgins managersSince the establishment of the club, the board signed to Francisco Hormazábal for the Primera División tournament of 1955, being he the first coach of the team of Rancagua. After of the regular seasons in the league contest, the board hired to the European Carlos Snopec as manager, who was the first international coach of the club.
More than 20 years later, the club achieved an historic season with Luis Santibáñez as coach, who qualified to O'Higgins to the 1980 Copa Libertadores' semifinals. However, by the Uruguayan side Club Nacional was eliminated the team, with goals of Eduardo de la Peña and Waldemar Victorino, being defeated at the Estadio Parque Central for 2–0, failing of this form to play against Internacional de Porto Alegre in the finals. In early 1990s, the club's board signed to the coach Manuel Pellegrini for face the 1992 Copa Conmebol, in where unfortunately was immediately eliminated by Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata of Argentina. Then, with a prior spell of Nelson Acosta, who potentiated players like Jaime Riveros for example, in 1994, the club achieved the finals of Copa Chile, being runner–up under Roberto Hernández as coach.
In 2006, the team made his first important campaign for a Torneo de Clausura under the orders of Jorge Garcés as coach, who abandoned the institution the following season, after of loss 5–0 with Colo-Colo. In December 2007, Ricardo Abumohor, the club's owner, reported that hired to Jorge Sampaoli as coach for face the tournament, in where he made regular seasons with players like Jean Beausejour and Carlos Carmona as key players into the scheme of the Argentine. After a regular tournament in the 2010 tournament, then with a prior spell the next league tournament of the coaches Ivo Basay in the first semester, whilst in the next José Cantillana, in January 2012, the club's board signed to the coach Eduardo Berizzo alongside his assistant coach and former River Plate's goalkeeper in 1980s, Roberto Bonano, reaching the Torneo de Apertura finals against the Universidad de Chile, directed by the coach Jorge Sampaoli, an old acquaintance, being runners–up after of loss in the penalties 2–0 with scores of Charles Aránguiz and Raúl Ruidíaz, the international striker of the Peruvian national team.
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