José Luis Brown was born on November 11, 1956 in Ranchos, Argentina.
He began his career as a footballer in the lower divisions of the Estudiantes de la Plata club, with which he made his debut in the first team in 1975. With that club he won the 1983 Metropolitan Tournament and the National Tournament of the same year, being team captain.
After playing 8 seasons for the La Plata team, in 1985 he played for Deportivo Español and Club Atlético Boca Juniors, before traveling to the old continent. There he played for France’s Stade Bretois in 1987, and then returned to South America to play for Atlético Nacional de Medellín in 1988.
In 1989 he returned to Europe (more precisely to Spain) to play for Real Murcia. During 1989 and 1990 he played for Racing Club de Avellaneda, where in that last year he would retire from football as a professional.
For the Argentine National Team he played 36 games, in which he scored only one goal.
He was part of the winning plant of the Soccer World Cup in Mexico 1986, converting one of the goals with which Argentina would win in the final, against Germany and 3-2, after an excellent match.
As Technical Director, his first experience was directing the Club Atlético Los Andes together with Nery Alberto Pumpido in the First National “B” tournament in the 1995-1996 season, which he would resign at the end of 1995.
In 1996 he was part of the technical team of Carlos Salvador Bilardo, who directed the Boca Juniors Athletic Club, as a field assistant.
He managed to put himself in charge of a squad again in 2000, by forming a technical duo with Héctor Enrique to lead the Almagro Club.
Later this pair was hired by the Nueva Chicago Athletic Club, although they had to resign after playing 11 games due to poor results.
In 2002 he was hired by the Bolivian club Blooming, although he resigned after a short time (16 games). Then he began training the lower divisions of Estudiantes de la Plata, which at that time was led by Bilardo.
After Bilardo’s departure, “Tata” went to direct the Atlético Rafaela club, a team that was playing for Nacional B, and after repeated discussions he left the squad, and returned again to Almagro.