Ángel Pedraza

Ángel Pedraza Lamilla (born October 4, 1962 in La Rinconada , † January 8, 2011 ) was a Spanish football player and coach.

Athletic career

Pedraza, who came from the youth of FC Barcelona, was promoted to the club's professional squad in 1980. Under coach László Kubala , he made his UEFA Cup debut in September of that year against the Maltese representative Sliema Wanderers ; thus he was the first player trained in the youth academy La Masia who played a competitive game for the club. Without having played in the championship to date, the club awarded him in 1982 to Villarreal FC, which was playing in regional lower-class football . After a year he returned and played for the reserve team of FC Barcelona before he made his debut in the Primera División in January 1986 under coach Terry Venables . He quickly got stuck in the team and reached the final in the 1985/86 European Cup with her . There he was alongside José Ramón Alexanko , Pichi Alonso and Marcos Alonso Peña in the 2-0 defeat on penalties one of the four shooters whose penalty kicks were saved by Helmuth Duckadam .

Under Venable's successor Luis Aragonés, Pedraza moved into the second line and was only on the bench in the final of the Copa del Rey 1987/88 , which ended with a 1-0 victory over Real Sociedad San Sebastián . After Johan Cruyff was signed in the summer of 1988, he moved to RCD Mallorca in the Segunda División . There he was one of the guarantors for the promotion to the top class and remained loyal to the club even after relegation in the summer of 1992. He was again in the final of the Copa del Rey 1990/91 , but the final was lost against Atlético Madrid with his former teammate Bernd Schuster . In 1995 he ended his higher-class career and ended his career with CF Sóller in the fourth-class Tercera División until 1997 .

After the end of his active career, Pedraza returned to Barcelona. There he initially looked after the youth teams of FC Barcelona and local rivals Espanyol Barcelona , whose reserve team he later coached. From 2005 he coached Benidorm CF and the reserve team of Villarreal FC in the third-class Segunda División B before he worked in Greece for Iraklis FC and later Panserraikos in the Super League from 2008 .

After his return to Spain in 2009, Pedraza took over the coaching position at the fourth division Atlético Baleares , which he led in the summer of 2010 for promotion to the Segunda División B. Marked by cancer, he then resigned, but returned to the sidelines a short time later as coach of the CE l'Hospitalet . There he was released from his duties after three months.

At the age of 48, Pedraza succumbed to cancer in early 2011.

Individual evidence

^ Robert Álvarez: Pedraza, el primero de La Masía que debutó con el Barça. In: El País . January 9, 2011, accessed March 29, 2020 (Spanish).
^ Fallce Pedraza a los 48 años a consecuencia de un cáncer. In: El Periódico . January 9, 2011, archived from the original on January 11, 2016 ; accessed on March 29, 2020 (Spanish).

personal data
SURNAME	Pedraza, Angel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Pedraza Lamilla, Ángel (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Spanish soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH	4th October 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH	La Rinconada
DATE OF DEATH	January 8, 2011

[1] Robert Álvarez: Pedraza, el primero de La Masía que debutó con el Barça. In: El País . January 9, 2011, accessed March 29, 2020 (Spanish).

[2] Fallce Pedraza a los 48 años a consecuencia de un cáncer. In: El Periódico . January 9, 2011, archived from the original on January 11, 2016 ; accessed on March 29, 2020 (Spanish).