Ignacio Quereda

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Ignacio Quereda
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Ignacio Quereda (2012)
Personnel
Surname Ignacio Quereda Laviña
birthday July 24, 1950
place of birth Madrid ,  Spain
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1968-1969 real Madrid
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1988-2015 Spain (women)

Ignacio Quereda Laviña (born July 24, 1950 in Madrid ) is a Spanish football coach who coached the Spanish women's national football team from 1988 to 2015 . He is the longest-serving national coach in European football.

Career

player

Quereda, who was born in Madrid , grew up in Badajoz , where his family had moved two weeks after he was born. He later moved back to Madrid, where he played in the Real Madrid youth team . According to UEFA, he won the gold medal at the University Games in 1973 and 1975 with the Spanish university team.

Trainer

In 1988 he became the coach of the Spanish women's national soccer team after previously coaching the Spanish third division club CD Móstoles . At first there was no success. After a 0-1 defeat in the first game under his direction against Belgium on October 29, 1988, the last game in qualifying for the European Championship in 1989 , the Spaniards finished fourth behind France , Czechoslovakia and Belgium . It then took more than three years until a game was won for the first time under his leadership and the Spaniards also failed in qualifying for the European Championship in 1991 . They couldn't qualify for the first women's soccer World Cup either. In the following qualifications, the Spaniards improved steadily, but initially without significant results - except for a 17-0 win against Slovenia , the highest win between two European women's teams . Only in qualifying for the European Championship in 1997 they were able to prevail in the playoffs against England and reach the finals for the first time. At the European Championship finals in Norway and Sweden they even reached the semi-finals, but lost to Italy there . This was the only participation in the final round for 16 years.

Things went better in the junior women's area, because the U-19 team he was in charge of became European champions in 2004 with a 2-1 win against the German team , against whom they were spared 7-0 in the group games as some of the regular players. At the 2004 Women's U-19 Football World Cup , the team failed in the group stage, while Germany became world champions. And the U-17 team was also able to win the title in 2010 and 2011 under his later successor Jorge Vilda . Alexia Putellas , Spain's top scorer in 2011, also made it to the later European and / or World Cup squads, as did Verónica Boquete , Ruth García and Natalia Pablos from the 2004 U-19 team.

For the EM 2013 , the national team managed to qualify again. They were lucky in the playoffs against the Scottish women . Because after a 1: 1 in Scotland , it was also 1: 1 in Spain after 90 minutes. Scotland then even took a 2-1 lead in extra time and the 2-2 equalization was not enough due to the away goals rule to qualify. In the second minute of stoppage time, Verónica Boquete , who had failed with a penalty in the 119th minute, scored the 3-2 winner for Spain. On the way to the playoffs, they were the first team to not lose to Germany in 38 Euro games .

In the finals, the Spaniards won their first group game against England with a goal in the third minute of stoppage time 3-2. After a 0: 1 defeat against secret favorites France, a 1: 1 against Russia was enough to reach the quarter-finals as second in the group. Here his team failed with 1: 3 at the eventual European runner-up Norway . The following qualification for the 2015 World Cup was also successful. In ten games, the Spaniards only gave up one point in the 0-0 draw in Italy and qualified for a World Cup finals for the first time on the penultimate matchday. However, the final round was disappointing for the Spaniards, especially since hopes of reaching the round of 16 had been raised after the group draw. After a 1: 1 against the newcomer to the World Cup Costa Rica there was an expected defeat against Brazil, but it was 0: 1. This was followed by an unpredictable 2-1 defeat against South Korea , after which the Spaniards were eliminated as the bottom of the group. Since the Spaniards were the only European team to miss the last sixteen, they were unable to qualify for the 2016 Olympic Games. Before the trip home, the team published a letter signed by all 23 players in which the preparation was sharply criticized and the coach's replacement was requested. Quereda then resigned after 27 years in office and Jorge Vilda , who was just seven years old at the time of Quereda's inauguration in 1988, became his successor. He was the longest of all European national coaches in office. Quereda coached the Spaniards in 138 games and was able to lead the Spaniards , who were 28th in the FIFA world rankings when the list was introduced in 2003, to 19th place in 2014.

Success as a trainer

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b “Can not be terminated? Europe's longest-serving trainer "
  2. ↑ hoy.es: "Hay chicas capaces de hacer las cosas que hacía Zidane"
  3. ↑ a b c uefa.com: "Spain set daunting goal"
  4. ↑ uefa.com: "Surprise coup through Spain"
  5. ↑ fifa.com: "Quereda:" We can't rule anything out at the World Cup ""
  6. ↑ fifa.com: "Jorge Vilda:" Lust, joy and hard work ""
  7. ↑ uefa.com: "Spain ecstatic as dramatic victory sinks in"
  8. ↑ uefa.com: "Spain 'honored' to end Germany run"
  9. ↑ spiegel.de, "Open letter: Spain's female soccer players start revolt against coaches"
  10. ↑ "Vilda in as Quereda ends 27-year Spain reign"
  11. ↑ FIFA / Coca-Cola World Ranking - Spain

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personal data
SURNAME Quereda, Ignacio
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Quereda Laviña, Ignacio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish soccer coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 24, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Madrid , Spain