Julen Lopetegui

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Julen Lopetegui
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Julen Lopetegui (2017)
Personnel
Surname Julen Lopetegui Argote
birthday August 28, 1966
place of birth Asteasu ,  Spain
size 185 cm
position goal
Juniors
Years station
0000-1985 Real Sociedad San Sebastian
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1985-1988 Castilla CF 61 (0)
1988-1991 real Madrid 1 (0)
1988-1989 →  UD Las Palmas  (loan) 31 (0)
1991-1994 CD Logroñés 107 (0)
1994-1997 FC Barcelona 5 (0)
1997-2002 Rayo Vallecano 112 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1985 Spain U21 1 (0)
1994 Spain 1 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2003 Rayo Vallecano
2008-2009 Real Madrid Castilla
2010-2014 Spain U19
2010-2014 Spain U20
2012-2014 Spain U21
2014-2016 FC Porto
2016-2018 Spain
2018 real Madrid
2019– Sevilla FC
1 Only league games are given.

Julen Lopetegui Argote (born August 28, 1966 in Asteasu ) is a Spanish football coach and former goalkeeper .

Player career

In the club

Julen Lopetegui played as a junior for Real Sociedad San Sebastián and made it to the club's B team. In 1985 Real Madrid signed him for the second team Castilla, who played in the Segunda División . In three seasons he made 61 missions and reached third place in the second division in the 1987/88 season under coach Vicente del Bosque .

In 1988/89 he played on loan for UD Las Palmas before joining Real Madrid's first team. Real won the championship title in his first season, but he only made one appearance and otherwise had to let Francisco Buyo go ahead as the goalkeeper.

Even in his second season with the Royal Lopetegui could not prevail and then switched to CD Logroñés for the 1991/92 season . Here he spent three years with the regular team and was soon considered one of the best goalkeepers in the league.

In the summer of 1994, FC Barcelona signed Lopetegui. With these he won the Supercup in 1994 and 1996, but was rarely used behind regular goalkeeper Carles Busquets . For the 1996/97 season, FC Barcelona signed another goalkeeper in Vítor Baía and Lopetegui did not play a single league match. His club won the European Cup Winners' Cup and the Copa del Rey that season .

In the summer of 1997, Julen Lopetegui moved to Rayo Vallecano in the Segunda División . At the Madrid club he was able to connect to his services at Logroñés and finally rose in 1998/99 to the Primera División. In the top Spanish league he was to play for three more years in the service of Rayo Vallecano, but had to share the position of goalkeeper with Kasey Keller and 2001/02 with Imanol Etxeberria . Subsequently, Lopetegui ended his career as a player and moved to the club's coaching staff.

National team

As a junior Lopetegui was in the squad of the Spaniards for the Junior World Championship 1985 . His team reached the final, but Lopetegui himself was not used.

His achievements during his time at CD Logroñés earned him his first appointments in the senior national team . He made his debut on March 23, 1994 in a friendly against Croatia . This should also be his last appearance in the national team, although he was in Spain's squad for the finals of the 1994 World Cup , but did not get behind Andoni Zubizarreta and Santiago Cañizares .

Coaching career

Beginnings

Julen Lopetegui took over in the 2003/04 season the post of head coach at Rayo Vallecano , which was playing in the Segunda División at that time . After ten match days he was dismissed for failure. In 2006 he took on the role of coordinator of the scouting department at Real Madrid and finally coached the second team of the Real Madrid Castilla club in 2008/09 .

In 2010 he joined the Spanish Association's coaching staff and was appointed coach of the U19 and U20 teams. With the U20 he played the 2011 World Cup , where his team reached the quarter-finals. In the summer of 2012 he won the European Championship with the Spanish U19s .

After the disappointing performance of the Spaniards at the 2012 Olympic Games under Luis Milla , Lopetegui took over the position of coach of the U-21 national team . This he led to the title win at the EM 2013 .

FC Porto

In May 2014, FC Porto signed him as a new coach. Lopetegui was the preferred candidate for club president Jorge Nunu Pinto da Costa. He was released on January 7, 2016.

Spanish national team

In July 2016, Lopetegui became the new coach of the Spanish national team . In qualifying group G , he led the Spaniards to the 2018 World Cup in Russia with nine wins and one draw, five points ahead of Italy . On May 22, 2018, Lopetegui extended his contract until after the 2020 European Championship . After it was announced on June 12, 2018 that Lopetegui would move to Real Madrid after the World Cup by means of a release clause, he was dismissed a day later - two days before the Spaniards' World Cup opener against Portugal . The reason given for the short-term separation was that Lopetegui had only informed the Spanish Football Association immediately before the change was announced. Lopetegui completed 20 internationals, of which he won 16 and drew four.

“The negotiations took place without the knowledge of the Spanish association. At least five minutes before the official announcement. There are forms of behavior that one must adhere to "

- Association President Luis Rubiales on the dismissal of Lopetegui

real Madrid

For the season 2018/19 Lopetegui head coach was Real Madrid . He signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2021 and succeeded Zinédine Zidane , who resigned after winning the third consecutive Champions League .

Lopetegui started in August with a 2: 4 defeat in the UEFA Super Cup against Atlético Madrid and became the second Real coach to concede four goals in his competitive debut. Before him, only the Englishman Michael Keeping managed to lose 4-1 to Celta Vigo in the league on February 1, 1948 . Lopetegui started the league season with three wins in a row, but then the team fell into a crisis. On October 29, 2018, Lopetegui was sacked, one day after a 5-1 defeat in Clásico at FC Barcelona on matchday 10. At this time, the team was in the league after ten game days with 14 points (four wins, two draws, four defeats) on the 9th place in the table.

His successor was the Argentine Santiago Solari , ex-player at the club, but who also fell victim to the dismissal after the 27th matchday. Then Zidane returned, under whom Real ended the season in third.

Sevilla FC

For the 2019/20 season he was appointed coach of Sevilla FC . He finished fourth in the league and won the UEFA Europa League with the club at the end of the season, this time in August 2020, by beating Inter Milan 3-2 in the final in Cologne .

successes

player

real Madrid

FC Barcelona

Spain

Trainer

Spain

Sevilla FC

Web links

Commons : Julen Lopetegui  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Spain's sixth coup. In: UEFA.com. Retrieved June 16, 2013 .
  2. ↑ Spanish Football Association fires Milla. In: RP-Online . August 7, 2012, accessed June 16, 2013 .
  3. ↑ New coach for FC Porto. Report on sport1.de from May 6, 2014 (accessed on May 6, 2014)
  4. ^ Carsten Germann: New Spanish faction . In: Sport Bild (special issue on the Champions League and Europa League in the 2014/15 season) . Axel Springer SE, 2014, p. 114 .
  5. ↑ OFICIAL | Julen Lopetegui, nuevo seleccionador absoluto español rfef.es, accessed on July 21, 2016
  6. ↑ OFFICIAL | Julen Lopetegui renews as Spain Head Coach until 2020 , sefutbol.com, May 22, 2018, accessed on June 13, 2018.
  7. ↑ OFFICIAL ANNOUNCEMENT | Julen Lopetegui , sefutbol.com, June 12, 2018, accessed June 13, 2018.
  8. ↑ OFFICIAL PRESS CONFERENCE | RFEF dismisses Julen Lopetegui , sefutbol.com, June 13, 2018, accessed June 13, 2018.
  9. ↑ a b Spain separates from Lopetegui - Hierro takes over , kicker.de, June 13, 2018, accessed on June 13, 2018.
  10. ↑ Official Announcement: Julen Lopetegui will be the Real Madrid coach after the celebration of the 2018 World Cup , realmadrid.com, June 12, 2018, accessed on June 12, 2018.
  11. ↑ Official Announcement , realmadrid.com, October 29, 2018, accessed October 29, 2018.
  12. ↑ See the table for the 2018/19 season after the 10th matchday on kicker.de.
  13. ↑ https://www.estadiodeportivo.com/sevilla/2019/06/04/lopetegui-sevilla/227930.html
personal data
SURNAME Lopetegui, Julen
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Lopetegui Argote, Julen (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish soccer goalkeeper and coach
DATE OF BIRTH August 28, 1966
PLACE OF BIRTH Asteasu , Spain