Paco Jémez

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Paco Jémez
Paco Jémez. Marbella Football Center.jpg
Paco as coach of Rayo Vallecano
Personnel
Surname Francisco Jémez Martín
birthday April 18, 1970
place of birth Las Palmas ,  Spain
size 180 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
Cordoba FC
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1989-1991 Cordoba FC
1991-1992 Real Murcia 35 (0)
1992-1993 Rayo Vallecano 38 (0)
1993-1998 Deportivo La Coruña 94 (1)
1998-2004 Real Zaragoza 168 (1)
2004-2005 Rayo Vallecano 17 (0)
2005-2006 CD Lugo 34 (2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1998-2001 Spain 21 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2006-2007 RSD Alcalá
2007-2008 Cordoba FC
2009 Cartagena FC
2010-2011 UD Las Palmas
2011–2012 Cordoba FC
2012-2016 Rayo Vallecano
2016 Granada CF.
2016-2017 CD Cruz Azul
2017-2018 UD Las Palmas
2019– Rayo Vallecano
1 Only league games are given.

Francisco Jémez Martín (born April 18, 1970 in Las Palmas de Gran Canaria ), also known as Paco Jémez or just Paco , is a former Spanish football player and current coach. As an active player, playing for Deportivo La Coruña and Real Saragossa , among others , he coached Rayo Vallecano's team from 2012 to 2016 and since 2019 .

Player career

Club career

Paco Jémez, born on April 18, 1970 in Las Palmas , Gran Canaria , began his playing career in the youth of Córdoba FC . In 1989 he made his debut as a professional footballer with this club. For the then third-rate club, the young defender played for two years in the professional team before moving to Real Murcia in the summer of 1991 . In the second division Paco completed 35 league games in the 1991/92 season, but left the club again after the end of the season. Another year-long interlude at Rayo Vallecano followed . Rayo was promoted back to the Primera División the previous year and reached with Paco Jémez in defense a good fourteenth place in the Primera División 1992/93 with two points ahead of the first relegation place.

From 1993 to 1998 Paco played in the defense of Deportivo La Coruña , which was then on the rise to become an absolute top team. In 1994/95 Depor reached the final in the Copa del Rey after victories over UE Lleida , Athletic Bilbao and Sporting Gijón and met Valencia CF there . La Coruña was able to prevail with 2-1 and win the first big title in the club's history, but Paco was not part of the formation in the final. In general, it was difficult for him to secure a permanent place in the team of coach Arsenio Iglesias . That is why Paco Jémez only made 94 league appearances in the five years he played for the Galician club. A goal jump jumped out.

In 1998 Paco Jémez changed employers again and from then on he was under contract with Real Saragossa , where he experienced by far his most successful time as a football player. In the 2000/01 season Paco achieved his second title in the Spanish Football Cup, this time even with an active participation in the final. Real Zaragoza won 3-1 against Celta Vigo and secured the Copa del Rey for the fifth time ever. Paco Jémez played on the defensive of Zaragoza for the entire season. Three years later the same happened again, this time Real Madrid were defeated 3-2 in the final after extra time. By this time Paco Jémez had long since lost his regular place in the Real Zaragoza team, and he experienced the 2004 final from the bench. During this successful time, however, the relegation from the Primera División 2002 also fell. As the reigning cup winner, Real Saragossa played a disastrous season, at the end of which, for the first time since 1978, they had to go into the second division. However, the direct resurgence followed and as a climber, the 2004 cup triumph immediately.

In 2004 Paco Jémez's chapter at Real Saragossa ended, he left the club after six years and 168 appearances in the league. He had scored a goal. He then spent the first half of the 2004/05 season at Rayo Vallecano in the Segunda División . From the winter of 2005 Paco played low- class football for CD Lugo for a year and a half before he ended his active career in 2006 at the age of 36.

National team

During his time at Real Zaragoza, Paco Jémez also became a Spanish international. Between 1998 and 2001 he was used in 21 international matches for his home country. A gate didn't pop out. National coach José Antonio Camacho called Paco into the Spaniard's squad for the 2000 European Football Championship in Belgium and the Netherlands . In the tournament Paco acted as a regular player and was used in three of the four games of his team. The Spanish selection was able to finish the group stage confidently as the first in their group ahead of Yugoslavia , Norway and Slovenia , before France was too big a hurdle at 1: 2 in the quarter-finals .

Coaching career

Paco Jémez had his first coaching position from 2006 to 2007 at RSD Alcalá . The following year he coached Córdoba FC in their first term. Paco saved the club, which had just returned to the second division, from direct relegation in the 2007/08 season by reaching eighteenth place. However, this was not only thanks to Paco Jémez, he was dismissed ten game days before the end of the season on a relegation zone. In the course of the following season Paco took over the coaching position at the third division club FC Cartagena . With the club he was extremely successful and prevailed in the playoff games for promotion to the second division against CD Alcoyano , which meant promotion to the Segunda División. The third division championship, however, had to be surrendered to FC Cádiz . After the successful ascent, Paco Jémez and FC Cartagena parted ways. His successor in Cartagena was Juan Ignacio Martínez .

Towards the end of the Segunda División 2009/10 Paco took over from Sergio Krešić at UD Las Palmas in his hometown and still led the club to relegation. UD Las Palmas then went into the new season with him, but after a lack of success in the middle of the season, the two parties separated again in early 2011. In the 2011/12 season , Paco Jémez supervised FC Córdoba in his second term, with whom he reached the promotion playoffs in the Segunda División, but failed there in the semi-finals at Real Valladolid . After that, his contact was not extended.

In the summer of 2012, Paco Jémez succeeded José Ramón Sandoval as coach of Rayo Vallecano and thus took over a position in the first Spanish league for the first time. With the club, which only narrowly escaped relegation last year, Paco surprisingly finished eighth in the Primera División 2012/13 and with this result would actually have qualified for the UEFA Europa League . However, since Rayo did not get a license from UEFA , the starting place fell to ninth-placed Sevilla FC . The following year Paco landed with Rayo Vallecano in twelfth place and thus again far away from the relegation regions. The 2014/15 season ended in eleventh place, which again meant relegation. The following year, however, Rayo Vallecano had to go into the second division after missing the relegation by one point against Sporting Gijón . Paco Jémez then resigned as a coach at the Madrid club.

A little later he took over the coaching position at the first division club FC Granada , where he was released on September 28, 2016.

Since March 2019 he has been coach of Rayo Vallecano again.

successes

As a player

1994/95 with Deportivo La Coruña
2000/01 and 2003/04 with Real Saragossa
1995 with Deportivo La Coruña

As a trainer

2008/09 with Cartagena FC

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personal data
SURNAME Jémez, Paco
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Jémez Martín, Francisco (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH April 18, 1970
PLACE OF BIRTH Las Palmas de Gran Canaria , Spain