| Luis Fernández | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Luis Fernández | |
| Date of birth | October 2, 1959 | |
| Place of birth | Tarifa, Spain | |
| Playing position | Defender / Midfielder | |
| Youth clubs | ||
| 1969-1970 1970-1978 |
HAVE Minguettes St-Priest |
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| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 1978-1986 1986-1989 1989-1993 |
Paris Saint-Germain RC Paris AS Cannes |
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| National team | ||
| 1982-1992 | France | 60 (6) |
| Teams managed | ||
| 1992-1994 1994-1996 1996-2000 2000-2003 2003-2004 2005 2005-2006 2006-2007 |
AS Cannes Paris Saint-Germain Athletic Bilbao Paris Saint-Germain Espanyol Barcelona Al Rayyan Beitar Jerusalem Real Betis Balompié |
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Luis Fernández (born on October 2, 1959 in Tarifa, Spain) is a Spanish- French former football (soccer) defender / midfielder, who retired in 1993 to become a manager. Events 1187 - Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule The year 1959 ( MCMLIX) was a Common year starting on Thursday (link will display full calendar of the Gregorian calendar. Tarifa is a small town on the southernmost coast of the Iberian Peninsula. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. Spain () or the Kingdom of Spain (Reino de España is a country located mostly in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula. This article is about the country For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic France topics. Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a Team sport played between two teams of eleven players and is widely considered He has managed AS Cannes and Paris Saint-Germain among other clubs, and is the individual credited with bringing Ronaldinho to Europe. Association Sportive de Cannes Football (aka AS Cannes) is a French football club founded in 1909 Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, or PSG, is a French football club based in Paris. Ronaldo de Assis Moreira (born March 21 1980 in Porto Alegre) commonly known as Ronaldinho or Ronaldinho Gaúcho, is a Brazilian footballer He was most recently the manager of La Liga side Real Betis, with a tenure from December 27, 2006 to June 10, 2007. The Primera División of the es Liga de Fútbol Profesional ( Professional Football League) commonly known as La Liga or Real Betis Balompié is a Spanish football club in Sevilla founded in 1907 [1]
As an active player, Fernández got 60 international caps and 6 goals for the French national team, between 1982 and 1992. A cap is an appearance for a select team such as a school county or international team in sports The French national football team represents the nation of France in international football.
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Biography
Player
It was at Paris Saint-Germain (PSG) that Spanish-born Luis Fernández signed his first professional contract, at 19 years of age. Quickly he established himself as a solid defensive midfielder, excelling in winning the ball, but also capable of precise passing, and at the end of the year 1982 he was called up for the French national team and debuted against the Netherlands on November 10, 1982. The Netherlands national football team is the national football team of the Netherlands and is controlled by the Royal Netherlands Football Association At only 23 years, Luis Fernández was immediately an important part of the team that only months earlier had been semi-finalists of the 1982 FIFA World Cup. The 1982 FIFA World Cup, the 12th staging of the World Cup was held in Spain from June 13 to July 11. He formed the national midfield with such French national greats as Jean Tigana in the defensive midfield, and the offensive players Alain Giresse and Michel Platini, a midfield that became known as the "magic square". Jean Amadou Tigana (born 23 June 1955 in Bamako, Mali) is a football manager and former player having played in Midfield Alain Giresse (born 2 August 1952 in Langoiran, Gironde) was a French professional Football (soccer Midfielder Michel François Platini (born June 21, 1955) is a French former football player manager and current president of the UEFA. With the national team, Luis Fernandez won the Euro 1984 at home in France, and reached the semi-final of the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico. The 1984 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in France. The 1986 FIFA World Cup, the 13th staging of the FIFA World Cup, was held in Mexico from May 31 to June 29. The United Mexican States ( or commonly Mexico (ˈmɛksɪkoʊ () is a federal constitutional Republic in North America. At the time of this tournament.
After the elimination from the 1986 World Cup, and just after he had won the French Ligue 1 championship with PSG, Fernández made the decision to join Jean-Luc Lagardere's team Racing Club de Paris. Current Teams (2008-2009 Ligue 1 teams in European competitions The original European Cup of 1955-56 featured Real Madrid against Stade Jean-Luc Lagardère ( February 10, 1928 - March 14, 2003) was a major French businessman CEO of the Lagardere Group, one Racing Club de France is a football club based in Paris. These days the club can be generally found playing in the Championnat de France Amateurs, But in spite of a team that was strong on paper, the club and Fernandez didn't succeed, and he left Racing after three seasons. Following the 1986 World Cup, the French national team did not manage to qualify for Euro 1988 and the 1990 FIFA World Cup. The 1988 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in West Germany.
From Racing, Fernández went to AS Cannes in 1989, a more modest club with a friendlier environment. He was still a part of the French national team in spite of a declining physique. Not a starting player under new national team manager Michel Platini, Fernández would play the role of a late joker, with the job to clinch a result at the end of the match. Fernández took part in the Euro 1992, where France were eliminated in the group stage, and Fernández decided to end his international career. The 1992 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was hosted by Sweden. On the club level AS Cannes were relegated to Ligue 2 at the end of the 1991-1992 season, but Fernández decided to remain with the club and end his career when his contract ran out. Ligue 2 is the second division of French football. It is one of two divisions making up the LFP, the other being Ligue 1, which is France's top But Fernández wasn't allowed a slow retirement, when after a few weeks, AS Cannes decided to entrust Luis Fernandez with the post of manager. Fernandez thus finished the season as a coach-player, and led Cannes back to Ligue 1 at the end of the season, and definitively switched to the career as a manager.
Manager
After the promotion of AS Cannes to the Ligue 1, Luis Fernández continued his work at the club and qualified for the UEFA Cup. The UEFA Cup is a football competition for European club teams organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA. He won the Best Trainer of Ligue 1 award at the end of the season 1993-1994, on grounds of Fernández' alluring philosophy of offensive tactics with a use of young players. The profile of Fernández particularly interested Paris Saint-Germain. Despite winning the Ligue 1 championship and a good run in the European Cup, PSG failed to play attractive football, partly because of the Portuguese trainer Artur Jorge, who applied a more rigid strategic system. Portugal, officially the Portuguese Republic (República Portuguesa is a country on the Iberian Peninsula. Artur Jorge Braga Melo Teixeira, better known as Artur Jorge (born February 13, 1946, in Porto) is a Portuguese football The board of PSG saw in Fernandez the ideal manager to reform the image of the club.
The first season of Luis Fernández in Paris Saint-Germain was a success. Even though PSG was quickly outpaced in the Ligue 1 championship race by an irresistible FC Nantes side, PSG managed to win the two national Cups, the Coupe de France and Coupe de la Ligue, as well as an impressive showing in the UEFA Champions League concluded by elimination in the semi-finals by AC Milan. Football Club de Nantes is a French football team based in the city of Nantes, currently playing in Ligue 1. This is about the football competition for the rugby see Coupe de France (rugby. The Coupe de la Ligue, the French League Cup is an elimination cup competition organised by the Ligue de Football Professionnel. See also List of European Cup and UEFA Champions League winners The UEFA Champions League, which evolved from the European Champion Clubs' Cup is a seasonal club Associazione Calcio Milan, commonly referred to by the abbreviation Milan, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy The strongest displays by Fernandez and the PSG team being the quarterfinal win, over two matches, against the great FC Barcelona side of Johan Cruyff. Fútbol Club Barcelona ( Catalan fudˈbɔɫ ˌklup bəɾsəˈlonə Spanish ˈfutβol ˌkluβ baɾθeˈlona known familiarly as Barça (Spanish ˈbaɾsa Catalan The second season at PSG, saw the beginning of the end for Fernandez. Beaten to the title once more in Ligue 1, PSG found the European competitions to be a breath of fresh-air, and they won the European Cup Winners Cup after victory in the final against Rapid Vienna, making Fernandez the first French manager to win a major European trophy. The Sportklub Rapid Wien (Rapid Vienna is an Austrian football club playing in the country's capital city of Vienna. This prestigious victory was not sufficient to keep Fernandez in the PSG hotseat however, following the missed championship, Fernandez left Paris Saint-Germain at the end of the 1995-1996 season.
Fernández was then contacted by Athletic Bilbao from the Spanish La Liga, a club Fernández managed to qualify for the Champions League, and where he would spend four seasons. The Primera División of the es Liga de Fútbol Profesional ( Professional Football League) commonly known as La Liga or
In 2000, Fernández returned to France and in December that year he once more took the seat at PSG, replacing Philippe Bergeroo. Philippe Bergeroo (born January 28, 1954 in Ciboure, Pyrénées-Atlantiques) is a former football Goalkeeper from Even though he was in charge of a team of such stars as Jay-Jay Okocha, Nicolas Anelka and especially Ronaldinho, Fernández never got the results to satisfy the ambitions of the club. Augustine Azuka "Jay-Jay" Okocha (born 14 August 1973 in Enugu) is a former Nigerian footballer. Nicolas Anelka (born March 14, 1979 in Versailles, France) is a French football Striker who plays for Ronaldo de Assis Moreira (born March 21 1980 in Porto Alegre) commonly known as Ronaldinho or Ronaldinho Gaúcho, is a Brazilian footballer In spite of the support of the fans with whom his popularity always remained very strong, Luis Fernández was fired at the end of the 2002-2003 season, after two and half years.
Six months later, Luis was in Spain, brought into the RCD Espanyol team in December 2003 to save them from near certain relegation, and at the end of the season Fernández had succeeded in keeping the club in the Spanish top flight. RCD Espanyol de Barcelona (Reial Club Deportiu Espanyol de Barcelona is a Sports club based in Barcelona. After one year of inactivity, Luis Fernandez took a more low-profile job in June 2005 as the manager of Al Rayyan Sports Club in Qatar, a club which he decided to leave in November 2005 in order to join the Israeli club Beitar Jerusalem as a general manager as well as trainer. Al-Rayyan Club (نادي الريان is a Qatari professional sports club fielding teams in a number of sports such as football (soccer basketball volleyball handball Qatar ( قطر; ˈqɑtˁɑr local pronunciation giṭar officially the State of Qatar (Arabic دولة قطر transliterated For a topic outline on this subject see List of basic Israel topics. Beitar Jerusalem FC (מועדון כדורגל בית"ר ירושלים Mōadōn Kadūregel Beitár Yerushaláyim) is an Israeli Football (soccer
2005-06 With Beitar
Beitar Jerusalem's owner, the famous Arcadi Gaydamak, expected much of the manager, whom he chose after a long search for a foreign manager who would raise the club's profile and attract more fans. Fernández's position was complicated by the factor that he was brought into the club to work with the previous manager, the controversial Dutchman Ton Kaanen. The Dutch people ( Dutch:) are the dominant Ethnic group of the Netherlands. Ton Kaanen (born March 18, 1966 in Geleen) is a Dutch manager, who is the current head coach of FC Stal Alchevsk. To Fernández Kaanen was little more than an amateur who struck gold by conning Gaydamak into giving him the job of manager. The relationship between them rapidly transformed into enmity, and Kaanen incited fans' support for him against Fernández through media reports that he leaked. Gaydamak then responded by sacking Kaanen and giving him smaller responsibilities, causing Kaanen to jump ship to Maccabi Tel-Aviv and working as their manager until the end of the season. Maccabi Tel Aviv ( מכבי תל אביב, often referred to simply as Maccabi is the biggest Sports club in Israel and a part of the Maccabi The rivalry between the two became a media circus: Though Beitar's record at the end of the season placed them in third place and earned them a place in the UEFA Cup, Kaanen and Maccabi defeated them twice, and Fernández lost a variety of games to clubs that were rated far lower than Beitar, such as SC Ashdod or Hapoel Kfar Saba (the latter managed by Eli Ohana, the Beitar icon who had been fired as manager earlier in the season before being replaced by Kaanen). The UEFA Cup is a football competition for European club teams organised by the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA. Hapoel Kfar Saba FC (מועדון כדורגל הפועל כפר סבא Moadon Kaduregel Hapoel Kfar Saba) are an Israeli football club from Eli Ohana (אלי אוחנה born February 1, 1964 in Jerusalem, Israel) is an Israeli football manager and Nevertheless, by the end of the season the Frenchman had developed his own following among Beitar's huge fan base. At the end of the 2005/2006 football season, Luis left Beitar Jerusalem after he got into a conflict with the club's fans. Beitar Jerusalem FC (מועדון כדורגל בית"ר ירושלים Mōadōn Kadūregel Beitár Yerushaláyim) is an Israeli Football (soccer
Real Betis Balompié
Luis Fernandez joined Real Betis half way through the 2006/2007 La Liga season and Betis's centenary season. Real Betis Balompié is a Spanish football club in Sevilla founded in 1907 The Primera División of the es Liga de Fútbol Profesional ( Professional Football League) commonly known as La Liga or A century (from the Latin centum, meaning one hundred is One hundred consecutive Years Centuries are numbered ordinally (e Fernandez was released on June 10, 2007 following a 5-0 loss at the Estadio Manuel Ruiz de Lopera to CA Osasuna, with just one game remaining in Betis's relegation threatened season. Events 1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Sally River while leading an army to Jerusalem Year 2007 ( MMVII) was a Common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar in the 21st century. Estadio Manuel Ruiz de Lopera is a football stadium in Sevilla, Spain. Club Atlético Osasuna, usually known as Osasuna, is a Spanish Primera División football club based in Pamplona in Navarre Real Betis Balompié is a Spanish football club in Sevilla founded in 1907 Including cup games, Luiz Fernandez competed as Real Betis manager in 26 games - winning 5, drawing 16, and losing 7. The Copa del Rey is an annual cup competition for Spanish football teams Real Betis Balompié is a Spanish football club in Sevilla founded in 1907
Honours
Player
- Winner
- Coupe de France: 1982 and 1983, with PSG. This is about the football competition for the rugby see Coupe de France (rugby. Paris Saint-Germain Football Club, or PSG, is a French football club based in Paris.
- Euro 1984, with the French national team. The 1984 UEFA European Football Championship final tournament was held in France.
- Artemio Franchi Trophy: 1985, with the French national team. The Artemio Franchi Trophy was a competition held twice ( 1985 and 1993) between the champions of the European Football Championship and the Copa América
- French Ligue 1: 1986, with PSG. Current Teams (2008-2009 Ligue 1 teams in European competitions The original European Cup of 1955-56 featured Real Madrid against Stade
- Runner-up
- Coupe de France: 1985, with PSG. This is about the football competition for the rugby see Coupe de France (rugby.
Manager
- Winner
- Coupe de France: 1995, with PSG. This is about the football competition for the rugby see Coupe de France (rugby.
- Coupe de la Ligue: 1995, with PSG. The Coupe de la Ligue, the French League Cup is an elimination cup competition organised by the Ligue de Football Professionnel.
- Cup Winners' Cup: 1996, with PSG.
- Trophée des Champions: 1996, with PSG. Le Trophée des Champions, the Champions Trophy is a cup organised by the French Football Federation, a match between the winners of the French Championship
- UEFA Intertoto Cup: 2001, with PSG. The UEFA Intertoto Cup, also abbreviated as UI Cup and originally called the International Football Cup, was a summer football competition for
- Runner-up
- French Ligue 1: 1996, with PSG. Current Teams (2008-2009 Ligue 1 teams in European competitions The original European Cup of 1955-56 featured Real Madrid against Stade
- Spanish La Liga: 1998, with Athletic Bilbao. The Primera División of the es Liga de Fútbol Profesional ( Professional Football League) commonly known as La Liga or Athletic Club is a Spanish football club from Bilbao in Biscay, Basque Country, Spain.
References
- ^ "Real Betis fires Luis Fernandez; Francisco Chaparro Jara named coach. " SI. com 10 June, 2007. http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/2007/soccer/wires/06/10/2080.ap.eu.spt.soc.betis.coach/index.html
| Preceded by Ton Kaanen |
Beitar Jerusalem FC manager 2005-2006 |
Succeeded by Osvaldo Ardiles |
| Preceded by Michel Platini |
France national football team Captain 1987-1988 |
Succeeded by Manuel Amoros |
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