Fernando Castro Lozada

Castro obtained his first win working as the technical director of Deportivo Cali, in the 1995/96 season; with them he broke a bad series of 22 years without wins for the team "Azucarero". Later, "El Pecoso" (Freckle Face) stood out in his work for another big name of Colombian football, Independiente Santa Fe, the club that he directed from 1999 to 2001. In the 2000 season, he took the team to the championship finals, contending the title against the América de Cali (eventual champions), Junior of Barranquilla and Sports Tolima. Castro also directed América de Cali]] from 2002 to 2003. This was a team with which he had a big campaign in the 2003 Copa Libertadores, leading the "Escarlata" to the semi-finals, in which the team was knocked out by the Boca Juniors of Argentina (eventually the champions). In his second stage as the head of "Los Cardenales", in spite of having an exceptional performance in the Tournament Opening, serious differences with the surroundings of the club motivated his exit in 2008. He was replaced by the coach Hernán Darío Gómez. In the second semester of 2010 he signed a contract with the Deportes Quindío team, and in spite of his economic limitations and staff to run an acceptable campaign, he brought the team to the quadrangular semi-finals of the tournament of that year. After the 2011 and 2012 seasons, he was not able to make any remarkable achievements, and he was driven to his dismissal due to economic problems, constant payroll cuts, and…

As manager

Deportivo Cali Categoría Primera A: 1995–96, 2015