Quique Setién

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Quique Setién
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Quique Setién (2010)
Personnel
Surname Enrique Setién Solar
birthday September 27, 1958
place of birth Santander ,  Spain
size 182 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
Casablanca
CA Perines
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1977-1985 Racing Santander 204 (43)
1985-1988 Atlético Madrid 73 0(7)
1988-1992 CD Logroñés 114 (20)
1992-1996 Racing Santander 124 (25)
1996 Levante UD 3 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1978-1982 Spain U21 2 0(0)
1985-1986 Spain 3 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2001-2002 Racing Santander
2003 Polideportivo Ejido
2006 Equatorial Guinea
2007-2008 CD Logroñés
2009-2015 CD Lugo
2015-2017 UD Las Palmas
2017-2019 Betis Seville
2020 FC Barcelona
1 Only league games are given.

Enrique "Quique" Setién Solar (born September 27, 1958 in Santander ) is a former Spanish football player and current coach .

Club career

Career start in Santander

Setién was born on September 27, 1958 in Santander, the capital of the Autonomous Community of Cantabria in the north of the Iberian Peninsula , where he grew up and started playing football on a square in his neighborhood. Initially, he competed for a youth team from Casablanca at a children's championship at El Sardinero and, at the age of 14, moved to the CA Perines training club, which is also based in Santander . At that time he was already working in the office of the Santander-based Colegio de Farmacéuticos de Cantabria , where he earned his first money. In 1977 he finally switched to Racing Santander , for which he made his debut in the Primera División , the highest Spanish football league, in the old El Sardinero , the predecessor of today's Campos de Sport de El Sardinero . He was sent on October 2, 1977 in a 1-1 draw against Betis Sevilla by his coach Nando Yosu at halftime for Rafael Ángel Barrero Villar , called Barrero for short , on the field. Subsequently, he came under Yosu to regular appearances in Spain's first class; However, it was not until the beginning of March of the following year before Setién made his breakthrough and became a regular of the Verdiblancos , the green-whites. By the end of the 1977/78 season , Setién had brought 21 league appearances and two goals. With the team he finished 13th out of 18th place in the table. In the 1977/78 Copa del Rey , the midfielder and his team suffered an early break in the third round against Real Madrid .

In the following season 1978/79 the league could no longer be secured. As the penultimate, Racing Santander rose together with the 16th, Celta Vigo , and the club Recreativo Huelva , which is in the bottom of the table, in the Spanish second division. Santander had previously lost twelve of their last 14 championship games. Setién was regularly used by coach Nando Yosu and his successor, interim coach Santiago Gutiérrez Calle , but only came to 24 league appearances in the end, in which he contributed three goals. However, the club was much more successful in the Copa del Rey 1978/79 , when the team moved in after victories in the first, second, third and fourth round, as well as in the round of 16 to the quarter-finals against Sevilla FC and only there with an overall result of 1 : 4 defeated. Setién acted as a regular in midfield in the cup games, played in ten of his team's twelve games, scoring two goals and preparing as many for his team-mates. Setién started the 1979/80 season under Laureano Ruiz , who was once an active player at Racing Santander himself and was the team's head coach for a short time in the 1960s, and he soon became a regular player. Used in 33 of 38 possible championship games, the 1.82 m tall midfielder scored five goals and only just managed to stay in the league with his team in 16th place. He remained when Laureano Ruiz was replaced by Moruca as coach of the second division team in March 1980 , until the end of the season a regular at the side of players like Piru , Juan Carlos , José Ángel Rojo , Chiri or Toño . In the 1979/80 Setién was used in five of his team's six games, with a total of two goals, and he was eliminated with the team in the third main round against the Castilla CF , Real Madrid's second team, from the current tournament .

Return to the Primera División

Under Moruca, who was a brief player at Santander himself in 1951 and coached the club from 1963 and 1969 to 1972, the team was put back on the road to success. In a sometimes quite tightly staggered final table, Racing Santander ranked third behind FC Cádiz (second) and CD Castellón (first) at the end of the 1980/81 season and thus managed to return to the highest football league in the country. However, the Copa del Rey this season was embarrassing when Santander was eliminated from the competition in round 3 against fourth division club UE Figueres . Setién was used in 35 league games this season and was more offensively oriented with ten goals; he also made two trophy appearances. At the side of Piru, Juan Carlos and the Argentine Juan Carlos Verón , he was one of the most frequently used (midfield) players of Racing Santander this season.

With the inclusion of the already experienced player Vicente García Angulo , who had belonged to Granada CF since his youth , and the also still young Miguel Bernal , who previously played for Real Madrid's second team, in the summer of 1981 Setién got further internal competitive pressure in his traditional position. Until the eleventh round of the Primera División 1981/82 still a regular from the beginning, who had brought it to three goals by then, he had to wait three months before he was used again in the league. As in his last game before, he managed a goal on his comeback on February 14, 1982 in a 3-0 home win over Real Valladolid . Soon after, Setién was able to re-establish itself as a regular in midfield of the Cantabrians and made 22 league appearances and five goals over the entire season. In the final standings, Racing Santander had a comfortable place in the middle of the table with twelfth place. In the Copa del Rey 1981/82 , Setién and his team finished on penalties after advancing against Santoña CF in round 1 in the second round against third division club Gran Peña Celtista . Setién was used in three of the four games and came on a hit and an assist.

Another relegation and immediate return to first class

A serious injury prevented Setién's participation in the 1982/83 Primera División , which was another low point in the history of the club, which celebrated its 70th anniversary in 1983. After 34 games they were behind Celta Vigo, which had also gained the reputation of an elevator team in recent years - after all, they never played two seasons in a row in the same league in the last eight years - and UD Las Palmas in last place in the table, which meant a direct relegation back to the Segunda División. The 1982/83 cup season was similarly bad , in which the club failed again in the second round against a third division team - in this case the SD Erandio Club - to advance. The poor performance also resulted in Moruca's expulsion; Under his successor José María Maguregui , Setién did not find it difficult to get a place in the regular formation. Of 38 championship games in the Segunda División 1983/84 , the offensive midfielder, already known for his technique at the time, missed only two matches at the end of the season. With his eleven goals he scored, he was also the team's top scorer. Although the team could not win any of their last five championship games, Racing Santander was still in fourth place in the final standings. Since two of the top three teams (Castilla CF as the second team of Real Madrid and Bilbao Athletic as the second team of Athletic Bilbao ) were not eligible for promotion, the fourth and fifth placed ( Elche FC ) were allowed to join the third ( Hércules Alicante ) Promotion to the Primera División. As in previous years, Racing Santander was eliminated in the second round of the 1983/84 Copa del Rey ; this time it was with the SD Eibar again a fourth division that failed.

The subsequent first division season 1984/85 was a moderate one for Setién and his team. Over the entire season they ranked in the middle of the table and at the end of the season, when they finished the season in eleventh place, they did not go beyond this. Under José María Maguregui, the midfielder missed only one of 34 championship games and was the second top scorer of his team with seven goals behind Irish striker Alan Campbell (nine goals). As so often in the past, Racing Santander did not get past the second round of the Copa del Rey; 1984/85 they failed at Sestao SC . In appearances in all four cup games, Setién scored twice. After 204 games in Spain's first and second football league, Setién's first change was apparent at the end of the 1984/85 season.

Success with Atlético Madrid

In the summer break before the 1985/86 season , the midfielder signed a contract with the Spanish runner-up and cup winners Atlético Madrid , who was coached by club legend Luis Aragonés at the time. For Setién this was probably the most successful season of his entire active career. As a cup winner in 1984/85, the capital club was automatically a participant in the European Cup Winners' Cup 1985/86 . After victories over Celtic Glasgow in round 1, Bangor City in round 2, and Red Star Belgrade in the quarter-finals and Bayer 05 Uerdingen in the semi-finals, the team around the 1.82 m tall midfielder made it into the final on May 2 1986 took place in front of around 50,000 spectators in the Stade de Gerland in Lyon and ended in a 0-3 defeat for the Spaniards against Dynamo Kiev . Setién himself was used in seven of his team's nine games throughout the tournament and scored one goal each in the first three games in which he was on the lawn for the full game. He also came on in the final when he was substituted on for Jesús Landáburu in the 61st minute . In the same season he won the Supercopa de España game against champions FC Barcelona with an aggregate result of 3-2. Furthermore, he was used 30 league games in which he scored five goals and was appointed to the Spanish senior team for the first time due to his performance . In the final standings, he ranked fifth with Atlético Madrid, which meant participation in the first round of the 1986/87 UEFA Cup . In addition, Setién was used for the defending champion from the round of 16 in the Copa del Rey 1985/86 , where he also appeared as a goal scorer, and was eliminated in the quarterfinals of the competition against the eventual finalists FC Barcelona with a 2-1 defeat.

After four seasons as coach of Atlético Madrid Luis Aragonés was replaced by Vicente Miera in the following summer break . Under Miera Setién continued to act as a regular player before Miera after missing progress in the 1986/87 UEFA Cup , but a largely positive performance in the league, dismissed and replaced by interim coach Jesús Martinez Jayo . Under the new coach, the midfielder was used in seven of twelve games until early February 1987; none of these seven matches was won by the capital club. After no victories under Martinez and the team began to slide down some table positions, Luis Aragonés was reinstalled and tied to the club until the end of the season. However, this could not bring the team back to the top of the table. Due to the league system that was changed this season, the league was divided into three groups of six teams each after the 34 regular season games. As an overall seventh, Atlético Madrid took part in the insignificant second group and also won this group. Setién was hardly considered in this group; Used in only five of the ten games, it played only once over the full length of the game. Overall, he made 32 league appearances and three of four possible appearances in the UEFA Cup this season. In any case, the Copa del Rey 1986/87 was successful , in which the team made it to the final against Real Sociedad and was only defeated there on penalties. Setién came on as a substitute for Pedro Uralde in the final in the 86th minute .

After two successful seasons, Setién had to give way to midfielders like Eusebio , Sergio Morgado , Jesús Landáburu, Alemão , Joaquín Parra , Quique Ramos , Marcos Alonso and Roberto Marina under new coach César Luis Menotti . The main reason for this was discrepancies between Setién and club president Jesús Gil , who took office during the summer break and became one of the most controversial coaches in Spanish football. During the entire 1987/88 season , the midfielder was among the three coaches of the capital club that season, in only eleven championship games, where he was always substituted on and was never on the field for more than half an hour. These disagreements subsequently led to Setién's contract termination by the club's president at the end of this season. Players like Juan Carlos Arteche , Jesús Landáburu or Quique Ramos, who had also been fired, subsequently went to court together with Quique Setién even against Gil, where they were sometimes awarded their rights by the Tribunal Supremo de España , Spain's highest court got. The now 30-year-old Setién, who in addition to his active career at that time also ran a pub , was already playing for league competitor CD Logroñés , to which he had switched in the summer of 1988.

Time at CD Logroñés

Until Setién received its official clearance, it took until about mid-March 1989. Only then was he used by Javier Irureta , who was released after this game, for the first time in a championship game of the club. Under interim coach Carlos Aimar and Nano who followed him a month later , who took over the team until the end of the season, Setién then found regular appearances in the Primera División, where he scored two goals in 13 league appearances. In the final standings in 1988/89 , the team from the city of Logroñés ranked 14th and was eliminated early in the Copa del Rey 1988/89 against Betis Sevilla. Under José Luis Romero , the midfielder who had been sorted out at Atlético Madrid then completed the entire 1989/90 season , in which it had become a regular. With nine goals in 32 of 38 possible games, Setién also found its way back to its previous offensive strength. In the final table, he led his club to seventh place in the table, which barely missed an international starting place. In the Copa del Rey 1989/90 he was also used in the two games of his team and was eliminated with the team in the first main round against the second team of FC Barcelona .

Over a place in the middle of the table, he and his team, which was trained by David Vidal from the summer , also in the 1990/91 season , when they finished in tenth place. The veteran only missed two of his team's 38 championship games and was on the pitch for the full 90 minutes in 32 of his 36 appearances. There were also seven goals, including a brace, which he scored on April 7, 1991 in a 2-3 away defeat against Betis Sevilla. Things also went better for the team in the 1990/91 Spanish Football Cup . After victories over CD Manacor in round 3, UE Sant Andreu in round 4, Real Murcia in round 5 and Betis Sevilla in the round of 16, the team made it to the quarter-finals, in which, after a 2-0 win in the first leg against Sporting Gijón , lost 3-0 in the second leg and thus narrowly eliminated from the tournament. Used in nine out of ten cup games, Setién scored one goal.

The Primera División 1991/92 , in which Setién was still the undisputed core force in midfield, should be the last for him at CD Logroñés. In the predominantly Spanish team, in which five foreigners were under contract with Toni Polster , Tibor Mičinec , Rubén Da Silva , Nelson Gutiérrez and Cléber Américo da Conceição , he played in 33 championship games under his coach David Vidal until the end of the season and scored two goals. In the final standings he made it with his team in tenth place and failed again in the Copa del Rey 1991/92 just narrowly in the quarter-finals and again against Sporting Gijón. Here, too, he was a regular player in all eight cup games of the CD Logroñés.

Return to Santander and end of career

Then he followed the call of his former club Racing Santander and completed a successful second division season 1992/93 with this , with the team always ranked in the top 5 over the entire season. With 37 of 38 possible league games, Setién was one of the main performers of his team and was also the team's top scorer with his eleven goals scored together with the Nigerian Mutiu Adepoju , who also scored as many goals. As third behind Real Valladolid (second) and UE Lleida (first), both of whom were promoted to the Primera División, Santander took third place in the table and, like fourth-placed RCD Mallorca , had the chance to win the promotion play offs to make the rise in Spain's first class. The veteran was also used here by Paquito García in both games against Espanyol Barcelona and managed with his team a total of 1-0 to return to the top football league in the country, in which they were last represented in the 1986/87 season . In the Copa del Rey 1992/93 he only reached the fourth round with the team and was clearly defeated in this by Real Oviedo with a total score of 3: 8.

For the 1993/94 season , Javier Irureta, under whom Setién had already played for a few months at CD Logroñés, took over as coach of the Cantabrians. Under Irureta, he then completed an almost flawless playing time, in which he was on the lawn in all 38 championship games and played 36 of these over the full 90 minutes. With eight goals, he again showed his scoring risk and was behind the former Soviet and now Russian international and center forward Dmitri Radchenko , who scored eleven goals, the second best scorer of his team. Racing Santander had moved in the middle of the table throughout the season and then finished the Primera División in 1993/94 in eighth place. In the Copa del Rey 1993/94 , in which Setién was only used in one encounter, the club was eliminated after a victory over CD Mármol Macael in the third main round in the subsequent fourth round against Talavera CF, who had just been promoted to the third division out.

When Javier Irureta was replaced during the summer break by Vicente Miera, under whom Setién had already played at Atlético Madrid, he also acted under the new coach alongside Tomás González Rivera and Andrej Syhmantowitsch as one of three veterans in the otherwise consistently young midfield of Santander . The midfielder, who was sometimes even used as team captain , only missed a single game of the season and had a hit record of six goals. He was behind the two Russians Dmitri Radchenko and Dmitri Popov, the third best goalscorer of his team this season. As in the year before, Racing Santander did not make it past the fourth main round of the football cup in 1994/95 and this time failed due to the away goals rule against Rayo Vallecano . In the following season 1995/96 , in which Setién also celebrated his 37th birthday, his playing time was limited. Although he still came to regular missions, Miera did not use him for the full duration of the game.

In early 1996, Setién was fired from the club where he had started his professional career almost 20 years earlier. Including his last game as a professional on December 2, 1995 against FC Barcelona, ​​he had made 15 league appearances and two cup games. In a way, Setién's departure was one of the reasons why Vicente Miera was dismissed as coach a day later after he had made negative comments about the city of Santander in the daily El Diario Montañés . After that, the 37-year-old briefly hired the Spanish third division club UD Levante , for whom he made three league appearances in the 1995/96 season . The club ranked superior in the end in first place in Group 3 of the Segunda División B and made it to professional football in the following promotion play-offs. With appearances in five of the six play-off games and two important goals, Setién played a key role in the promotion. After the success with Levante, Setién ended his career as an active player in professional football.

Beach soccer after retirement

At the invitation of Joaquín Alonso , a former Spanish international and a club legend of Sporting Gijón , he subsequently came to beach soccer . After his first game in Miami , Florida , he was a member of the Spanish national beach soccer team from 1997 to 2003, when he was already working partially as a football director and coach . At the side of former world-class players and professionals such as Emilio Butragueño , Míchel , Julio Salinas , Rafael Gordillo or the aforementioned Joaquín, he played numerous games during this time. With his home country he competed several times in the Euro Beach Soccer League organized by Beach Soccer Worldwide and won the tournament with the Spaniards in 1999 and 2000, where he was once the top scorer himself. Overall, Spain won the tournament four times during Setién's active beach soccer time, finishing second once and fourth once. During this time, Ramiro Amarelle , who was extremely successful in later years , and Setién then acted as his mentor, was discovered.

National team career

Setién made his first appearance in the U-21 national team in his home country in 1978, when he was just finishing his second season as a professional with Racing Santander. He came on 9 or 10 December 1978 over the full 90 minutes in Group 3 of the qualification for the U-21 European Championship 1980 against Cyprus to use. Over three years later, the now 23-year-old played another U-21 international match when he lost 2-0 to Germany for 60 minutes on April 6, 1982 at the Rosenaustadion in Augsburg on the occasion of the quarter-finals of the 1982 U-21 European Championship Use came.

In his successful season with Atlético Madrid, Setién found his way to the senior national team of Spain in 1985/86 . On November 20, 1985 he made his debut in a friendly international match against Austria , when he was used by national coach Miguel Muñoz in the 0-0 draw over the full game. A month later he played another friendly game; in the 2-0 win over Bulgaria on December 18, he was on the field from the start and was replaced in minute 72 by Manuel Sarabia , who years later would play with him at CD Logroñés. Another month later, the midfielder made his third and final appearance for La Furia Roja when he came on at halftime in a 2-0 win over the USSR on January 22, 1986.

Then Setién was part of the Spanish squad at the 1986 World Cup finals , but was not used during the tournament until the quarter-final game, which was ultimately lost to Belgium on penalties . It remained with three international appearances in the course of his career.

Coaching career

Football director and coach at Racing Santander

Around five years after the end of his career as an active footballer, Quique Setién took over the coaching position at the club where he had spent most of his career, Racing Santander , one day after Gustavo Benítez was fired. Since the beginning of the 2001/02 season he has held the position of football director at the club, a position that has been compared in the Spanish media with that of Jorge Valdano at Real Madrid . The team, which could not win their last game against SD Eibar , the decider about Benítez coaching career at Santander, and with only one win from the first seven league games in 19th place in the table, found their way back on the road to success under Setién. In the following game even slipped to a relegation zone, the team made it into the top 3 of the league within eleven match days. As a result, Racing Santander was able to hold on to the top places in the table and was ultimately runner- up behind Atlético Madrid in the Spanish second division, which was also associated with direct promotion to the highest football league in the country. For Setién it was the fourth promotion to the Primera División with Racing Santander - three times as a player and once as a coach.

Unsuccessful at Polideportivo Ejido

Despite the great success, the coaching position was then taken over by his former teammate Manuel Preciado , who had previously coached the club's second team, during the summer break . Setién had already decided in November 2001 that he only wanted to train until the end of the season. After that, the former Spanish international stayed on for another season as the football director of Racing Santander and then switched to the Spanish second division Polideportivo Ejido as a coach in the summer of 2003 . However, the company failed after just a few months. After the Andalusian club could only win two of their last 15 games across all competitions, the dismissal of Setién was announced in mid-November 2003. The interim management of the training was then taken over by Setién's assistant coach José María Salmerón , who was replaced just a few days later by Julián Rubio , who trained the team until the end of the season and was able to at least lead away from the relegation places. Shortly before the end of the season Salmerón was used again as an interim coach after the team had headed back to the relegation places in the last games under Rubio.

Assistant to the Russian beach soccer selection and national coach of Equatorial Guinea

In the following years, Setién acted, among other things, from 2005 to 2006 as technical director and assistant coach of the Russian national beach soccer team . Through his former teammates Dmitri Popow and Valeri Karpin , whom he also knew from his playing days, he was brought into contact with Nikolai Pissarew , the coach of the Russian national beach soccer team. His job with the Russians was to find new players for the team and to train them so that the Russian team would be more competitive. A few weeks later he and the team took part in the Euro Beach Soccer Cup . In front of their own audience in Moscow , the Russians, who had never been in the top four before, made it to the final against Switzerland, where they were only marginally defeated 3: 4.

In autumn 2006, Setién, who is considered an admirer of Johan Cruyff's philosophy , moved to the national football team of Equatorial Guinea , where he took over the coaching post of the Brazilian Antônio Dumas . This came about as part of an agreement in which the CD Logroñés was also involved and as a result of which a selection of equatorial Guinean players selected by Setién should also find its way to the CD Logroñés. The focus was on an estimated 200,000 children under the age of 15 in the former Spanish colony. After only three months, Setién's work in Equatorial Guinea ended and he returned to Spain.

About the CD Logroñés to the CD Lugo

Then he joined the CD Logroñés, on which he had once played for years in the Primera División. The club, which was both sportily and financially badly hit, was now playing in the Spanish third division and was unable to break away from the bottom of the table even under Setién's leadership. After only a few months in office - the CD Logroñés ranked last in Group 2 of Segunda División B - the former midfielder was dismissed in January 2008 and forced relegation due to Agustín Abadía , who managed to keep the team with the team but could not avert financial problems either.

In the summer of 2009 he took over the coaching position of the league competitor CD Lugo , where he replaced Fonsi Valverde as coach. At the Galician club, which took part in the Segunda División B 2009/10 in Group 1, he led his team to seventh place in the table in its first season, after having even ranked third for some time. In the following season 2010/11 the CD Lugo had one of the dominant teams in the league; From the 17th matchday onwards, the team never slipped back from the championship lead until the end of the season and was ultimately champions of Group 1 of Segunda División B. The team was qualified for the promotion play-offs of the group winners, but failed in this narrowly with an aggregate result of 1: 2 at Real Murcia. Because of the first place, the CD Lugo was qualified for participation in the Copa del Rey 2011/12 ; However, Setién only led his team into the first round, in which they lost Real Oviedo with a total score of 1: 3 . In 2011/12 the team trained by Setién was one of the most successful in Group 1 of Segunda División B; in the end a qualification place for the promotion play-offs was reached with 3rd place. After the SD Eibar in round 1 and Atlético Baleares in round 2, Lugo only eliminated Cádiz on penalties in the third round and secured promotion 19 years since they last played in Spain's second division.

In the Copa del Rey 2012/13 already eliminated early in the second round against Racing Santander, the team in the Segunda División 2012/13 was able to earn at least one place in the middle of the table with eleventh place. Until a few laps before the end of the season, the team was still in sixteenth place and was able to free themselves from the bottom of the table after a 2-0 home win over CE Sabadell . The end of the season contract with Setién, who had complained months earlier about the club's modest infrastructure, was then extended for at least one more season after Setién agreed to continue training for the team. One condition for continuing to exist in the second Spanish division at all was for the CD Lugo to outsource its professional game operations to a Sociedad Anónima Deportiva , which took place gradually over the following months. The 2013/14 season was a bit more turbulent , in which Setién even led his team to second place in the table in the eleventh championship round, which the team quickly lost again and slipped to 14th place within a few games. After a renewed upswing in the second half of the season, the CD Lugo was only able to win one of its last seven championship games and ended the season in twelfth place in the table. In the Copa del Rey 2013/14 the team managed only a narrow progress against CD Mirandés in the second round and was eliminated from the competition in the following against Recreativo Huelva. Then Setién, who turned down offers from other clubs, added another season to the Galician club; the contract was extended at the beginning of June 2014.

Against all efforts, the CD Lugo remained a middle class club in the Segunda División 2014/15 , which in the end only brought it to 15th place in the table - only five points away from the next relegation place. On June 7, 2015, FC Girona - CD Lugo (1-1) led his last game as coach of the north-west Spanish club and subsequently left the club after six consecutive seasons. A few days earlier he had learned from the club's management that his time in Lugo had ended . As in the previous season, the CD Lugo also failed in the trophy of the 2014/15 season in the third round due to the competition.

Change to first division promoted UD Las Palmas

While he was replaced by Luis Milla on CD Lugo , Setién moved to UD Las Palmas after a brief period of absence on October 19, 2015 , which returned to the Primera División after a 13-year absence, where he replaced Paco Herrera from the ninth round and brought the team from the penultimate place in the table back into the middle of the table. Setién signed a contract until the end of the season, with the option of another season. After the former Spanish international had a hard time getting the team away from the relegation zone, he succeeded in the last third of the season when he even brought the team close to an international starting position, but the season then came in eleventh Table position ended. Because of his achievements, he was even named the best coach of the Primera División in March 2016. In the Copa del Rey 2015/16 , the “Coach of the Month March” was eliminated in January in the quarter-finals against Valencia CF with a narrow overall result of 1: 2. After its expiring contract was subsequently extended by exercising the option, the Gran Canaria club stumbled in the following season 2016/17 . Despite a good start, the team slipped further and further down the table from the third round; especially 13 defeats and only three wins in the last 18 championship rounds up to the end of the season contributed to the 14th place the team finished in the final standings. Also loan commitments from Jesé or Alen Halilović in winter could not contribute to better results. As early as March 18, 2017, Setién announced that, due to some insurmountable differences, from the coming season he would no longer be the coach of the Canaries .

Betis Seville

After he had been courted by Betis Sevilla in 2014 , Setién was introduced as their new coach on May 26, 2017. He signed a three-year contract with the Andalusian club - starting from the 2017/18 season . The first season under Setién's leadership was largely mixed; Initially still at the top of the table, the team was increasingly in the middle of the table as the season progressed, but was able to fight its way back to the top places in March 2018 and ended the season two months later in sixth place in the table. In contrast to the UD Las Palmas, with whom he made it at least into the round of 16 in the Copa del Rey 2016/17 when the team suffered a narrow loss against Atlético Madrid, Setién with Betis Sevilla 2017/18 was eliminated one round earlier a total score of 5: 6 against FC Cádiz from the current tournament. Due to the table position in the final standings of the Primera División 2017/18, Betis Sevilla was then entitled to participate in the group stage of the 2018/19 UEFA Europa League instead of the cup winners.

The following group stage ended the team trained by Setién as the winner of the group, whereupon the team moved into the round of 16 against Stade Rennes and lost it, after a 3: 3 draw in the first leg, in the subsequent second leg with 1: 3. In the league, the flow of the game was initially characterized by a constant up and down; continuity only returned in the second half of the season. The Cantabrian then led his team to tenth place in the Primera División 2017/18 and was particularly successful with the team in the Copa del Rey 2018/19 , when they just barely met eventual cup winners FC in the semi-finals with an overall result of 2: 3 Valencia lost. After there had already been differences with the supporters of the club, who had been demanding his resignation for months, and sports vice-president Llorenç Serra Ferrer , the cooperation with Setién was discontinued a year before the end of the contract with the end of the 2018/19 season.

FC Barcelona coach

Setién was already associated with FC Barcelona in January 2019 . On January 13, 2020, Setién signed a contract with FC Barcelona that ran until June 30, 2022, replacing Ernesto Valverde as coach of the reigning champions and championship leaders. The club's actual preferred candidate, Xavi , had given the club a rejection. Barcelona were ultimately only runner-up and eliminated in the quarter-finals of the Spanish Cup . The club experienced a debacle in the Champions League : the 8-2 defeat in the quarter-finals against FC Bayern Munich was the highest in Barcelona's European history. The Catalans last conceded eight goals in a competitive match in 1946. A few days later, the club separated from Setién.

successes

As a player

with Racing Santander
with Atlético Madrid
with the UD Levante

As a trainer

with Racing Santander
with the CD Lugo

Familiar

Setién is the son-in-law of José Antonio Lozano , who also appeared as a soccer player and also played for Racing Santander in the 1960s .

One of his sons, Laro Setién , born in 1995 , also became a professional football player and was also under contract with Racing Santander during his career. Since 2019 he has been under contract with the Spanish third division club UE Sant Andreu .

Private

Setién has been an avid chess player since he was a teenager and joined the Santander-based chess club Torres Blancas at a young age . During his time at Betis Sevilla he had the opportunity to play against the chess grandmaster Anatoli Karpov . He also took part in various international tournaments and also competed against Garry Kasparow or the Deep Blue chess computer from IBM . He also wrote chess articles, including in the newspaper El Mundo , and wrote an obituary for the world champion Bobby Fischer . Setién's highest Elo rating was 2055, which put him in the expert category .

Before he moved to Barcelona , Setién lived in Liencres , a coastal community a few kilometers west of Santander.

Web links

Commons : Quique Setién  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d e “Muchas veces prefiero jugar al ajedrez que ver fútbol” (Spanish), accessed on January 14, 2020
  2. ↑ Quique Setién, pasión por el verdiblanco (I) (Spanish), accessed on January 14, 2020
  3. ↑ Quique, otro "Cerebro" para el Atletico , In: El Mundo Deportivo , June 22, 1985, p. 15 (Spanish), accessed on January 15, 2020
  4. ↑ a b Arteche, Landáburu, Quique y Setién ganan a Gil en los juzgados, pero no juegan (Spanish), accessed on January 15, 2020
  5. ↑ a b Fulminante despido de Miera y Quique Setién del Racing (Spanish), accessed on January 15, 2020
  6. ↑ SEGUNDA DIVISIÓN B (GRUPO 3) 1995-96 (Spanish), accessed January 15, 2020
  7. ↑ FASE DE ASCENSO A SEGUNDA DIVISIÓN 1995-96 (GRUPO A) (Spanish), accessed January 15, 2020
  8. ↑ a b c d e f g h i j QUIQUE SETIÉN - “My years in beach soccer were fantastic” , accessed on January 16, 2020
  9. ↑ UN HOMBRE, UN NUMERO - Los jugadores eligieron sus dorsales , In: El Mundo Deportivo , May 22, 1986, p. 13 (Spanish), accessed on January 16, 2020
  10. ↑ a b Gustavo Benítez se la juega , In: Mundo Deportivo , October 3, 2001, p. 26 (Spanish), accessed on January 16, 2020
  11. ↑ a b Setién ya manda y estará junto a Yosu en el banquillo , In: Mundo Deportivo , October 6, 2001, p. 26 (Spanish), accessed on January 16, 2020
  12. ↑ El Racing vuelvea Primera , In: Mundo Deportivo , May 20, 2002, p. 39 (Spanish), accessed on January 16, 2020
  13. ↑ Setién decide seguir como entrenador (Spanish), accessed January 16, 2020
  14. ↑ Setién ya trabaja en Santo Domingo , In: Mundo Deportivo , May 20, 2002, p. 32 (Spanish), accessed on January 16, 2020
  15. ↑ a b Quique Setién, despedido - José María Salmerón, su segundo, se hace cargo del equipo , In: Mundo Deportivo , November 18, 2003, p. 27 (Spanish), accessed on January 16, 2020
  16. ↑ a b c Guinea Ecuatorial busca su Eto'o (Spanish), accessed on January 16, 2020
  17. ↑ Quique Setién, destituido como entrenador del Logroñés (Spanish), accessed on January 16, 2020
  18. ↑ Quique Setién, nuevo entrenador ( Memento of June 13, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish), accessed on January 16, 2020
  19. ↑ El Lugo certifica la salvación tras vencer al Sabadell (Spanish), accessed on January 17, 2020
  20. ↑ a b Setién renueva y dirigirá por quinta temporada consecutiva al Lugo ( Memento of June 14, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish), accessed on January 17, 2020
  21. ↑ El Lugo sigue en Segunda tras vencer al Mirandés (Spanish), accessed on January 17, 2020
  22. ↑ a b Setién seguirá una temporada más en el Lugo, al que llegó en 2009 (Spanish), accessed on January 17, 2020
  23. ↑ a b Quique Setién se despedirá del Lugo ante el Girona (Spanish), accessed on January 17, 2020
  24. ↑ a b Las Palmas destituye a Paco Herrera y confía en Quique Setién (Spanish), accessed on January 17, 2020
  25. ↑ La victoria del Barça sella la permanencia matemática de la UD en Primera (Spanish), accessed on January 17, 2020
  26. ↑ Setién, mejor entrenador de marzo de 2016 (Spanish), accessed January 17, 2020
  27. ↑ 38 años después Las Palmas es líder de Primera (Spanish), accessed on January 17, 2020
  28. ↑ Las Palmas se lo pone fácil a Andone (Spanish), accessed January 17, 2020
  29. ↑ a b El Betis ficha a Quique Setién (Spanish), accessed on January 17, 2020
  30. ↑ Quique Setién anuncia que no seguirá en Las Palmas (Spanish), accessed on January 17, 2020
  31. ↑ Quique Setién, nuevo entrenador del Betis (Spanish), accessed January 17, 2020
  32. ↑ Rubén Castro prolonga la euforia verdiblanca (Spanish), accessed January 17, 2020
  33. ↑ El Betis de Setién jugará en Europa (Spanish), accessed January 17, 2020
  34. ↑ Quique Setién no seguirá en el Betis (Spanish), accessed January 17, 2020
  35. ↑ Quique Setien: Could Real Betis boss be Spain's next great manager? (Spanish), accessed January 17, 2020
  36. ↑ Quique Setién, nuevo entrenador del FC Barcelona (Spanish), accessed January 15, 2020
  37. ↑ Xavi on rejection of Barça - "It's too early for me to coach Barcelona" , accessed January 17, 2020
  38. ↑ Barcelona appoint Quique Setién as head coach to replace Ernesto Valverde (English), accessed on January 17, 2020
  39. ↑ 8 facts about the 8: 2 gala against FC Barcelona. August 15, 2020, accessed August 15, 2020 .
  40. ↑ Quique Setién no longer first team coach. August 17, 2020, accessed on August 17, 2020 .
  41. ↑ a b “Qué pasada”, exclamó el canterano Laro tras su estreno ante el Pontevedra CF (Spanish), accessed on January 14, 2020
  42. ↑ Laro Setién's profile on soccerway.com
  43. ↑ a b c Tactician Setien is also a master of chess , accessed on January 15, 2020
  44. ↑ Futbolistas y ajedrez, el ejemplo de Quique Setién (Spanish), accessed on January 15, 2020
  45. ↑ Entrevista a Quique Setién “Entrenador de Las Palmas y ajedrecista aficionado” (Spanish), accessed on January 15, 2020
  46. ↑
  47. ↑ Camp Moo: Quique Setién goes from cows to Barcelona job in 24 hours (Spanish), accessed on January 15, 2020
personal data
SURNAME Setién, Quique
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Setién Solar, Enrique (full name); Setién, Enrique; Setién Solar, Quique
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH September 27, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Santander , Spain