Career
He was an active player from 1966 to 1985. He would then become head coach in 1991 and led them to a Categoria Primera A title in 1991. He joined Maturana while he became coach of Colombia and was his assistant at the 1987 Copa America where Colombia got third place.
He also helped qualify the team to the 1990 Fédération internationale de football association World Cup and 1994 edition as well.
This was during the so called golden generation of Colombian football. He successfully led Ecuador to their first World Cup finals in 2002.
However, he resigned after a disappointing performance by the Ecuadorian team at the Copa América 2004. During the World Cup 2006, he was a commentator for Canal RCN. On February 15, 2014, Gómez was announced the new manager of Panama.
On Saturday, 6 August 2011, at the public "El Bembe" in Bogotá, Gómez attacked an unidentified woman.
According to witnesses, Gómez hit the woman at least four times at 11 p.m. near the entrance of the public where he was accompanied by the woman minutes before. However multiple organizations, like "Casa de la Mujer", expressed their discontent with Gómez"s actions and asked for his resignation as manager of the Colombian football team Finally because of pressure from the media, the Colombian football team"s sponsors, political and social celebrities and the general public, he resigned as the manager of the Colombian football team
However, due to recent polls, there has been information regarding that he should remain as coach due to how he immediately recognized his mistake.
The national team players support this regarding certain statements where they were disappointed with his actions but forgave him considering his immediate regret. Thus the Colombian soccer federation has postponed a final decision on whether to accept Gómez’s resignation until after the Under-20 World Cup.
On 13 February 2012 Colombian Hernán Darío Gómez took charge of first division Independiente Medellin on Monday, six months after resigning as coach of the national team