Omar Asad

Omar Asad
Personal information
Full name Omar Andrés Asad
Date of birth (1971-04-09) 9 April 1971
Place of birth Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
El Nacional (manager)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1992–2000 Vélez Sársfield 108 (23)
International career
1995 Argentina 2 (0)
Managerial career
2003–2009 Vélez Sársfield (youth)
2010 Godoy Cruz
2011 Emelec
2011 San Lorenzo
2012 Godoy Cruz
2013 Atlas
2016–2017 Sportivo Estudiantes
2020 San José
2020 Always Ready
2021 Always Ready
2025– El Nacional
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Omar Andrés Asad (born 9 April 1971) is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a forward. He is the current manager of Ecuadorian club El Nacional.

As a player, Asad spent all of his career in Vélez Sársfield, winning 8 titles with the club (including both the Copa Libertadores and the Intercontinental Cup).

Asad is nicknamed el Turco (in English: "the Turk") because he has Syrian and Lebanese ethnicity. In Argentina, Arabs are usually mistakenly called Turks since they came to the country with Ottoman Turkish documents in the 1900s.