Antonio Tapia

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Antonio Tapia
Personnel
Surname Antonio Tapia Flores
birthday November 13, 1949
place of birth Baena , Cordoba Province ,  Spain
Juniors
Years station
CD Fuengirola
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Atlético Malagueño
CD Fuengirola
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1986-1989 CD Mijas
1989-1992 CD Fuengirola
1992-1994 CD Los Boliches
1994-1996 Málaga CF (assistant coach)
1996-1997 Cádiz FC (assistant coach)
1997-2002 Polideportivo Ejido
2002-2005 Málaga CF B
2005-2006 Málaga CF
2006-2007 Polideportivo Ejido
2007-2008 Granada CF 74
2008-2009 Málaga CF
2009-2010 Betis Seville
1 Only league games are given.

Antonio Tapia Flores (born November 13, 1949 in Baena , Córdoba Province ) is a Spanish football coach and former player who has coached numerous Spanish teams.

Player career

Antonio Tapia's footballing career was not very spectacular and very short. In addition to the amateur club CD Fuengirola , he played briefly with Atlético Malagueño , as FC Málaga was called before it was renamed in 1994.

Coaching career

Amateur and assistant coach

After the end of his career as a player, he became a coach at the amateur club CD Mijas at the age of 27 . After three years, the native Andalusian took over his ex-club CD Fuengirola for which he was already active as a player. After another stint at a "no-name" club, he became assistant coach in 1994 at Malaga FC, which had crashed into Segunda Division B. He also played for himself. After two years he left the club to work as an assistant coach at FC Cádiz .

Poli ejido

As head coach Antonio Tapia took over the Tercera División - Club Polideportivo Ejido in the summer of 1997 . With the Andalusians, he rose twice in a row and made the march from the fourth to the second Spanish league in 2000 and 2001. In the first season in the Segunda División , relegation could only be secured on the last day of the long distance duel with Gimnàstic de Tarragona and UD Levante .

Málaga CF

In the summer of 2002, Antonio Tapia took over the second team of FC Málaga , which he immediately led into the Segunda División and held in the league. Thanks to this achievement, he was entrusted with the post of head coach for the first team of FC Málaga for the 2005/2006 season. But in the first division he could not stop the unprecedented crash of his team and was sacked after the first half of the season (his team had lost 3-1 at Espanyol). At the end of the season there was a disappointing last place.

The last few years

For the 2006/2007 season Antonio Tapia returned to his old place of work Polideportivo Ejido . He led the relegation candidate to a sovereign midfield position. In the 2007/2008 season he coached the ambitious second division club FC Granada 74 with whom he was completely surprisingly relegated to Segunda División B , which is why he was dismissed. However, since the previous coach of FC Málaga , Muniz, went to the first division club Racing Santander , Antonio Tapia got the opportunity to train his ex-club Málaga in the first division, where he signed a one-year contract with an option for another year in summer 2008.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ hoy.es, Antonio Tapia, destituido como entrenador del Málaga
  2. ↑ poliejido.com, Tras cinco temporadas, regresa al banquillo del Poli Antonio Tapia ( Memento from September 15, 2008 in the Internet Archive )
  3. ↑ radiogranada.es, Presentación de Antonio Tapia como nuevo del entrenador Granada 74
  4. ↑ as.com, El Granada 74 destituye a Antonio Tapia
  5. ↑ 20minutos.es, Antonio Tapia entrenará al Málaga en Primera División
  6. ↑ malagahoy.es, Antonio Tapia vuelve a entrenar al Málaga
personal data
SURNAME Tapia, Antonio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tapia Flores, Antonio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish soccer coach and ex-player
DATE OF BIRTH November 13, 1949
PLACE OF BIRTH Baena (Cordoba) , Spain