Juan Carlos Oblitas, el
Ciego, was born in Mollendo, Arequipa on 16 February 1951. He is married to Virginia Villamarin and has three children (Gisella, Juan Fernando, and Vanessa). He has six grandchildren. His son Juan Fernando has three daughters: Paula, Ariana and Andrea. As a player, he was a participant at the
1978 and
1982 FIFA World Cups. He obtained 64 international caps with Peru, and won the
Copa América 1975. He played at the club level for
Universitario and
Sporting Cristal in Peru, as well as
Elche in
Spain,
Veracruz in
Mexico and
R.F.C. Sérésien in
Belgium. As a manager, he won the
Primera División Peruana national title with Universitario (1987) and Sporting Cristal (1994, 1995), as well as the
Campeonato Ecuatoriano de Fútbol with
Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quito (2005). In the period 1996-99 he coached the
Peru national football team, missing the
1998 World Cup finals on goal difference. After Manuel Burga resigned following a long period of criticism, the new FPF leadership of
Edwin Oviedo appointed him as technical director for the national team. There, in January 2017, he helped the new FPF leadership to design the "Minors Plan" project, with the aim to improve the youth football of Peru which has been weaker than most of other CONMEBOL nations, in order to rebuild and reform football development in Peru for the future. He also aimed to make Peru one of major youth football power in South America, hoping to achieve more frequent qualification to the
FIFA U-17 and
FIFA U-20 World Cups. He also helped designing the Centennial Plan 2022, with its goal is to achieve more World Cup qualification successes, and making the Peruvian youth league one of South America's strongest, as well as the construction of new FPF Academy, the Center of National Teams. -> ==Career statistics==