Vicente Miera

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Vicente Miera
Vicente Miera (1965) .jpg
Personnel
Surname Vicente Miera Campos
birthday May 10, 1940
place of birth Santander , Cantabria ,  Spain
position Defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1960-1961 Racing Santander 30 (1)
1961-1969 real Madrid 147 (1)
1970-1971 Sporting Gijón 14 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1974-1977 Real Oviedo
1977-1979 Sporting Gijón
1979-1980 Espanyol Barcelona
1980-1982 Sporting Gijón
1986 Atlético Madrid
1988-1989 Real Oviedo
1988 Spain (assistant coach)
1989-1990 CD Tenerife
1991-1992 Spain
1994-1996 Racing Santander
1996-1997 Espanyol Barcelona
1997-1998 Sevilla FC
1 Only league games are given.

Vicente Miera (born May 10, 1940 in Santander , Cantabria ) is a former Spanish football coach and player who coached numerous Spanish professional teams and the Spanish national football team in his coaching career . The culmination of his career was winning the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona with Spain . As a player he was active for Real Madrid , Racing Santander and Sporting Gijón . With the “royal” he won numerous titles.

Player career

real Madrid

After a year at Racing Santander , Vicente Miera moved to Real Madrid in 1961 , which at that time was undergoing a fundamental transformation, replacing top foreign stars with young local players. Nevertheless, this newly formed team was able to maintain its exceptional position in Spanish football. Vicente Miera et al. a. won the European Cup Winners' Cup with Real in 1966. In addition, there were seven championship titles in eight years that Miera was able to win with his team. Only in 1966 was this total dominance broken, but it was slightly lost by winning the European Cup. In 1962 Miera was also able to win the Spanish Cup with “Los Blancos”.

Vicente Miera ended his career at league rival Sporting Gijón , which he was later to coach several times.

Coaching career

Real Oviedo

At the age of 34, the native Cantabrian Vicente Miera took over the team from Real Oviedo in 1974 . In his first season, he and his team were promoted to the Primera División . As third in the table, they confidently reached the season goal. But happiness shouldn't last long. After just one year, Miera's team had to accept the bitter relegation (only on the last day of the match did they lose to FC Elche in a long-distance duel for relegation). And also in the season 1976/77 the bad luck returned to Oviedo, because after an unnecessary away defeat at the relegation candidate UD Levante , the rise, which was believed to be safe, was finally given out of hand.

Sporting

Although he did not succeed with his team the rise, but he was allowed to return to the first division in 1977/78 as coach of the promoted Sporting Gijón . There he more than lived up to the high expectations with a fifth place as a climber. In the following season he even reached the runner-up behind record champions Real Madrid with the Asturians .

Espanyol and return to Sporting

Nevertheless, Miera surprisingly took over Espanyol Barcelona in the 1979/80 season , but had major problems with his team to keep relegation. For this reason, he returned to Sporting after just one year, which was able to establish itself in the top flight of the league. Although he still managed seventh place on his return, in the summer of 1982 they stayed first class solely because of the better goal difference. After the season, Vicente Miera drew the consequences and resigned as a coach.

Pause and return

It was not until the 1986/87 season that successful coach Miera returned to the coaching bench to sign with the traditional club Atlético Madrid . However, he remained below expectations and was replaced on an interim basis by Jesús Martinez Jayo in November 1986 , before he was replaced in early February by Luis Aragonés , who was the club's coach before Miera. Aragonés then trained the team until the end of the season. Another year of creative break followed before Miera returned to his first club Real Oviedo . He held the class with the Asturians, but left the club to join CD Tenerife . In 1988 he also worked for a few months as an assistant coach for the Spanish national team. Again one of his teams forgave on the last match day. In a direct relegation duel, his team lost 2-1 at Málaga and had to return to the Segunda División .

National team

The renewed relegation did not detract from his popularity, and so it happened that he took over as head coach of the Spanish national team. He made his debut on September 4, 1991 as national coach against the selection of Uruguay. At the 1992 Olympic Games in Barcelona , he led the Spanish team to the gold medal. After this success he was succeeded by Javier Clemente as national coach.

Last stations

First Vicente Miera reached a place in the middle of the table twice with Racing Santander in the years 94 to 96 before he took over the top team from Espanyol Barcelona a second time. But again he was unlucky in Barcelona, ​​so that he led last year's fourth beyond good and bad into the middle of the table. His last coaching position was also unsuccessful. He was supposed to lead Seville, who had just been relegated, back into the Primera División, which failed thoroughly with seventh place at the end of the season. Then the now 58-year-old Miera ended his coaching career.

successes

As a player

As a trainer

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personal data
SURNAME Miera, Vicente
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Miera Campos, Vicente
BRIEF DESCRIPTION spanish soccer coach and player
DATE OF BIRTH May 10, 1940
PLACE OF BIRTH Santander , Spain