Unai Emery

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Unai Emery
Unai Emery - Seville.jpg
Unai Emery (2016)
Personnel
Surname Unai Emery Etxegoien
birthday 3rd November 1971
place of birth Hondarribia ,  Spain
size 181 cm
position Left midfielder
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1990-1996 Real Sociedad B 39 (2)
1995-1996 Real Sociedad 5 (1)
1996-2000 CD Toledo 127 (2)
2000-2002 Racing de Ferrol 51 (7)
2002-2003 CD Leganés 28 (0)
2003-2005 Lorca Deportiva 31 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2004-2006 Lorca Deportiva
2006-2008 UD Almería
2008–2012 Valencia CF
2012 Spartak Moscow
2013-2016 Sevilla FC
2016-2018 Paris Saint-Germain
2018-2019 Arsenal FC
2020– Villarreal CF
1 Only league games are given.

Unai Emery Etxegoien (born November 3, 1971 in Hondarribia , Spain ) is a former Spanish football player and current football coach .

Before his coaching career, he played in the second Spanish division, among other things . After a few years at Valencia CF , he led Sevilla FC to historic triumphs in the UEFA Europa League three times in a row between 2013 and 2016 .

He has been the head coach of Villarreal CF since July 2020 .

Life

Unai Emery comes from a family of football goalkeepers from the Basque Hondarribia . He is the grandson of Pajarito Emery ("Little Bird"), who was the goalkeeper of Real Unión Irún in the 1920s and 1930s and who won the Copa del Rey twice. His father was a professional goalkeeper at Deportivo La Coruña and Recreativo Huelva , one of his uncles was a goalkeeper at CD Logroñés and Real Unión .

Career as a player

Emery played mainly in the Segunda División , the second highest division in Spain, and in the Segunda División B , the third highest division.

Career as a coach

In the 2004/05 season , Emery still played actively at Lorca Deportiva . During the season he succeeded his dismissed coach. A few months later, he was promoted to the Segunda División. In the following 2005/06 season , Lorca played against all expectations until the end for promotion to the Primera División.

For the 2006/07 season Emery moved to UD Almería . There he rose as second in the table at the end of the season. In the 2007/08 season he finished eighth in the Primera División with UD Almería at the end of the season .

Unai Emery (2011)

For the 2008/09 season Emery took over the coaching position at Valencia CF , becoming the youngest coach in the club's history. However, he was controversial among the fans, not least due to disagreements with club legend Vicente Rodríguez , whom he nominated as captain before the 2010/11 season , but only used sporadically and later suspended. Emery's expiring contract was extended for one year after the 2010/11 season. However, he was then not offered a new contract and signed Mauricio Pellegrino as the new head coach.

Emery was the new coach of the Russian first division team Spartak Moscow for the 2012/13 season . He signed a contract that ran until summer 2014, but was dismissed at the end of November 2012 due to unsuccessfulness. In January 2013 he succeeded Míchel at Sevilla FC , with whom he won the 2013/14 UEFA Europa League after a semi-final match against his former club, Valencia CF. In 2015 he defended this title with the team in the final against Dnieper Dnipropetrovsk , a year later he repeated the title defense in Basel with a win in the final against Liverpool . He was the only coach to win the Europa League three times in a row with Sevilla FC. Such a triple triumph in the European Cup was last achieved 38 years earlier with Bob Paisley with Liverpool FC.

For the 2016/17 season Emery took over the Ligue 1 team from Paris Saint-Germain from Laurent Blanc . He received a two-year contract until June 30, 2018. With PSG, he was runner-up in his first season in second place behind AS Monaco and, in addition to the French Supercup, also won the league cup and the cup, in the Champions League the last sixteen. In his second and final season he won the national Supercup, the League Cup, the Cup and the championship and thus all four national titles. In the Champions League he finished in the round of 16 for the second time in a row. After two years, Paris Saint-Germain and Unai Emery split with seven national titles won and because he could not win the Champions League. His successor at Paris Saint-Germain was the German coach Thomas Tuchel.

For the 2018/19 season , Emery succeeded Arsène Wenger at Arsenal FC . After finishing 5th in his debut season and having reached the final of the UEFA Europa League, which was lost 4-1 to Chelsea , the Gunners started the 2019/20 season below their own expectations : 8th after 13 games and 8th Points behind the Champions League ranks and a 1: 2 home defeat in the Europa League game against Eintracht Frankfurt led to Emery's dismissal on November 29, 2019.

successes

Unai Emery as coach of Sevilla FC (2016)

As a player, Emery won no titles. As a trainer, he has the following successes:

Web links

Commons : Unai Emery  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Unai Emery. July 23, 2020, accessed on July 23, 2020 .
  2. ↑ Emery joins Spartak . kicker.de , June 10, 2012, accessed on December 13, 2016.
  3. ↑ Dynamo shoots Emery out of office . kicker.de , November 26, 2012, accessed on December 13, 2016.
  4. ↑ Del Nido puts Michel in front of the door and fetches Emery . kicker.de , January 15, 2013, accessed on December 13, 2016.
  5. ^ Unai Emery named new coach of Paris Saint-Germain . News from Paris Saint-Germain, June 28, 2016, accessed December 13, 2016.
  6. ↑ Welcome Unai , May 23, 2018, accessed on July 11, 2018.
  7. ^ Unai Emery Leaves Club , Arsenal.com, accessed November 29, 2019
  8. ↑ PSG won thanks to an own goal in injury time spiegel.de, May 28, 2017
personal data
SURNAME Emery, Unai
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Emery Etxegoien, Unai (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Spanish soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd November 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Hondarribia , Spain