Gerard López (soccer player)

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Gerard López
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Gerard López (2008)
Personnel
Surname Gerard López Segú
birthday March 12, 1979
place of birth Granollers ,  Spain
size 180 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
1989-1993 EC Granollers
1993-1996 FC Barcelona
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1996-1997 FC Barcelona B 31 (10)
1997-2000 Valencia CF 45 0(4)
1998-1999 →  Deportivo Alavés  (loan) 29 0(7)
2000-2005 FC Barcelona 91 0(4)
2005-2007 AS Monaco 13 0(1)
2007-2008 Recreativo Huelva 18 0(0)
2009-2011 FC Girona 31 0(4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1996-1998 Spain U18 9 0(5)
1997 Spain U-20 4 0(0)
1998-2000 Spain U-21 10 0(5)
1998-2008 Catalonia 6 0(2)
2000 Spain 6 0(2)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2013-2016 Catalonia
2015-2018 FC Barcelona B
1 Only league games are given.

Gerard López Segú (born March 12, 1979 in Granollers ) is a former Spanish football player and current coach .

Career as a player

society

The midfielder started his professional career in 1996 with the second team at FC Barcelona . In the following season he moved to Valencia . Since he only played the role of supplementary player in his first season at Los Ches and only made eleven appearances (0 goals), the club decided to go on loan. In the 1998/99 season he was supposed to collect match practice at CD Alavès before returning to Valencia the following year. He succeeded and he developed into a high performer at Alavés. In Valencia more and more people were relying on him and he earned a regular place before signing a contract with his youth club, FC Barcelona, ​​again in 2000. The move was worth € 24m to Barcelona. In 2005 he won the Spanish championship with FCB . He stayed in Barcelona for five years until 2005. After a two-year stint at the top French club AS Monaco , Gerard López moved to the Spanish first division club Recreativo Huelva in the summer of 2007 . In his Spanish homeland, however, it only lasted a year and he decided to move abroad again. After López had kept fit at various clubs, he joined FC Girona in February 2009 , for which he made 30 appearances in the Segunda División (four goals) by the end of his career in summer 2011 .

National team

López went through various Spanish youth national teams and played six times for the Spanish national team . He got a total of two hits. All of his appearances for the Spaniards took place in 2000. In the same year he was also part of the squad for the European Football Championship in Holland and Belgium . The team failed in the quarter-finals on eventual European champions France . López was substituted on in the 77th minute of this game. This was his only use during the tournament. He was also used in the Catalan football team.

Career as a coach

In 2013 he took over the coaching of the Catalan football team from Johan Cruyff . He had his first game as a coach on December 30, 2013 against Cape Verde in the Olympic Stadium in Barcelona . For the season 2015/16 López took over in the third-rate Segunda División B relegated second team of FC Barcelona . At the end of the 2016/17 season, he was promoted to the Segunda División .

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Catalunya jugará contra Cabo Verde el 30 de diciembre (English), accessed on March 23, 2016
  2. ↑ FC Barcelona: Gerard López new Barça B coach , July 22, 2015, accessed on August 1, 2015.
  3. ↑ Barça B's sixth promotion to Division 2A | FC Barcelona. Retrieved June 30, 2017 (American English).
personal data
SURNAME López, Gerard
ALTERNATIVE NAMES López Segú, Gerard (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish soccer player and today's coach
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1979
PLACE OF BIRTH Granollers , Spain