Óscar Pareja, Colombia football coach: Profile, Career, News & Videos

Óscar Pareja is a Colombian professional football manager and former player. He is currently the head coach of Major League Soccer club Orlando City. Pareja is nicknamed El Generalito, the Little General, but is now called Papi.

Pareja came up through the youth ranks of Independiente Medellín and spent eight years playing for the club, and with them, he broke into the Colombia national team, before transferring to fellow Colombian club Deportivo Cali. Pareja then moved to the United States, where he spent a single season with the New England Revolution before moving to FC Dallas, where he stayed seven years and then retired from playing.

After retiring from playing football, Pareja began his management career as an assistant at FC Dallas before spending a year as an assistant coach to the United States U17s. Pareja then returned for three years to FC Dallas before taking his first head coach job at the Colorado Rapids. Following two years at the helm of the Rapids, Pareja returned to FC Dallas as head coach for four years before moving for a year to Mexican club Tijuana. In 2019, Pareja took the head coaching job at Orlando City, where he remains.