Luis Rubiales

Luis Rubiales
Luis Rubiales (2018)
Personnel
Surname	Luis Manuel Rubiales Béjar
birthday	23rd August 1977
place of birth	Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ,  Spain
size	180 cm
position	Left defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1998-1999	Guadix CF	47 (10)
1999-2000	RCD Mallorca B	30 0(1)
2000-2001	UE Lleida	35 0(0)
2001-2003	Deportivo Xerez	55 0(0)
2003-2008	Levante UD	86 0(0)
2008-2009	Alicante FC	15 0(0)
2009	Hamilton Academical	0 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. As of May 18, 2018

Luis Manuel Rubiales Béjar (born August 23, 1977 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ) is a former Spanish football player and now - functional . He has been President of the Spanish Football Association since May 17, 2018 .

Career as a player

Rubiales got into professional football through the stations of Guadix CF and the second team of RCD Mallorca . So he was in the 2000/2001 season in the Segunda División at UE Lleida under contract, but the team was relegated from bottom of the table.

In the summer of the same year he left the club in the direction of Deportivo Xerez , where he was brought by the German coach Bernd Schuster . After he missed promotion twice with his team and Schuster had left the club, Rubiales moved to last year's fourth UD Levante . He was promoted with the Levantines, but the following year, when he met Bernd Schuster again as a coach, it went down a league. After the immediate resurgence, during which he was just as little used as in the relegation season, he was able to regain his regular place in the 2006/2007 season. He was the club's captain for a long time.

After relegation in 2008 Rubiales went to the second division promoted FC Alicante . In August 2009 he moved to Hamilton Academical in Scotland, where he subsequently ended his career.

Career as a functionary

From March 2010 to November 2017 Rubiales was President of the Spanish Players Union .

On May 17, 2018, he was elected President of the Spanish Football Association. In one of his first official acts, Rubiales extended the contract with the senior national coach Julen Lopetegui until after the European Championship , which was then planned for 2020. After Lopetegui had made use of a release clause to move to Real Madrid on June 12, 2018 - three days before the Spaniard's opening game at the 2018 World Cup in Russia - but only informed the association immediately before the announcement, he fired this one day later and put the sports director of the association, Fernando Hierro , as coach for the World Cup. Under Hierro, the team was eliminated after a 3: 4 on penalties against the hosts in the round of 16.

After the World Cup, Luis Enrique was signed by Rubiales as the new head coach. However, he had to resign from his post in June 2019 because his daughter was seriously ill and died at the end of August 2019. The new head coach was his longtime assistant coach Robert Moreno , who successfully qualified with the team for the European Championship in 2021 . After the last European Championship qualifier in November 2019, Rubiales reappointed Luis Enrique as national coach. Moreno had announced in advance that, due to his friendship with Luis Enrique, he would take over the role of assistant coach again if he wanted to return. However, after learning of his replacement the day before in the half-time of the qualifying match against Romania (5-0) through the press, he left the association. At his introduction press conference, Luis Enrique stated that he was responsible for Moreno's departure. According to him, Moreno only wanted to leave him head coach after the European Championships and become his assistant coach again, which Luis Enrique felt was "disloyal".

successes

• Promotion to the Primera División with UD Levante : 2003/04, 2005/06

Web links

Commons : Luis Rubiales  - collection of images, videos and audio files

• Luis Rubiales in the database of transfermarkt.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ UEFA.com: Luis Rubiales. Retrieved February 18, 2019 . 
2. ^ Election of Luis Rubiales in Spain. In: uefa.com. May 18, 2018, accessed June 14, 2018 . 
3. ↑ Rubiales new spanish Verbansboss. In: sport.de . May 17, 2018, accessed June 14, 2018 . 
4. ↑ Official: Julen Lopetegui renews as Spain Head Coach until 2020. In: sefutbol.com . May 22, 2018, accessed June 14, 2018 . 
5. ↑ Official Announcement: Julen Lopetegui. In: sefutbol.com. June 12, 2018, accessed June 14, 2018 . 
6. ↑ Spain separates from Lopetegui - Hierro takes over. In: kicker.de . June 13, 2018, accessed June 14, 2018 . 
7. ↑ Official Press Conference: RFEF dismisses Julen Lopetegui. In: sefutbol.com. June 13, 2018, accessed June 14, 2018 . 
8. ↑ Official: Fernando Hierro to assume role as Head Coach for the Russia World Cup. (No longer available online.) In: sefutbol.com. June 13, 2018, archived from the original on June 15, 2018 ; accessed on June 14, 2018 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  
9. ↑ After five months: Luis Enrique Spanish national coach again , kicker.de, November 19, 2019, accessed on November 19, 2019.
10. ↑ Luis Enrique makes Spain return as Roberto Moreno walks away in tears , theguardian.com, November 19, 2019, accessed on November 19, 2019.
11. ↑ Luis Enrique threw Moreno out: "I don't need someone like that" , kicker.de, November 27, 2019, accessed on November 27, 2019.