Guillermo Barros Schelotto

Club

Argentina

Born with a twin brother, Gustavo, Barros Schelotto was hence nicknamed El Mellizo ("the twin"). He started playing professionally at the end of 1991 with his hometown team Gimnasia La Plata, where he scored 45 goals in 181 matches in five seasons and in 1993 won the AFA Centenario Cup. On 14 September 1997, he transferred to Primera División Argentina powerhouse Boca Juniors, for whom he played for almost ten years. He was considered an idol by Boca fans and in his later years at the club showed his experience whenever he stepped on the pitch. Barros Schelotto remains one of Boca's top scorers in international matches with 25 goals, with just one goal behind former teammate Martín Palermo. In 1996, he was offered to play for River Plate, but after club icon Enzo Francescoli was not happy with the potential signing, the deal collapsed. In mid-1997, Boca Juniors showed interest for him and his brother Gustavo. It was like that that Barros Schelotto twins arrived to Boca teaming up to a former rival: Martín Palermo, Gimnasia's archrival Estudiantes former player. The three of them were repeatedly recommended to Boca by Diego Maradona, who was playing his last season for the Buenos Aires team, retiring on October the same year. Once in Boca, he made his debut as a substitute for Claudio Caniggia, scoring against Newell's Old Boys in a 2–1 victory. With Carlos Bianchi as Boca Juniors' coach, Barros Schelotto got his traditional 7 shirt and kept…

Following his retirement in 2011, he and fellow Argentine, Gino Padula, established the SP Soccer Academy in Westerville, Ohio.

Lanús

In July 2012, Barros Schelotto took his first job as a manager, taking charge of Lanús, replacing former manager Gabriel Schürrer.

Palermo

On 11 January 2016, Barros Schelotto was named as the new coach of Italian side Palermo after his contract with Lanús had ended. Due to bureaucratic issues related to his appointment as head coach, however, Palermo was forced a few days later to hire Giovanni Tedesco, who already had the required coaching badges, as new "official" head coach, with Schelotto working alongside him and sitting on the bench during league games as "team manager". On 10 February 2016, Palermo confirmed Schelotto's resignation from his role at the club after UEFA refused to hand him a coaching badge.

Boca Juniors

On 1 March 2016, Barros Schelotto signed with his former club Boca Juniors. With Barros Schelotto at the helm, Boca reached the semi-finals of the 2016 Copa Libertadores, and won the 2016–17 Argentine Primera División despite many issues, including club legend Carlos Tevez's exit with a multi-million-dollar deal to Shanghai Shenhua. Barros Schelotto's Boca also won the 2017–18 Argentine Primera División. Despite the back-to-back league titles, the club lost the 2018 Copa Libertadores finals against rivals River Plate, and a few days later Boca Juniors president Daniel Angelici decided not to…

As of match played 11 September 2026.

Barros Schelotto's twin brother, Gustavo, was a teammate of his at Gimnasia La Plata, and also briefly at Boca Juniors. Since 2012, they work together with Guillermo as head coach and Gustavo as assistant coach. Barros Schelotto and his wife, Matilde, have 4 young sons, Máximo, Nicolás, and Santiago, and Lucas . His nephews Juan, Salvador, and Tomás Cataldi and Bautista Barros Schelotto are footballers. His father, Hugo Barros Schelotto, was one of Gimnasia y Esgrima's presidents in the 1980s. On 7 July 2013, he was immortalized with a statue located in the Museo de la Pasión Boquense, a venue that also features statues of figures such as Diego Maradona, Juan Román Riquelme, and Martín Palermo. In 2021, his father become one of the victims of COVID-19 pandemic in Argentina, dying in May 1st, three days before a new birthday of Guillermo and Gustavo.