Unai Emery
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Unai Emery Etxegoien | ||
| Date of birth | 3 November 1971 | ||
| Place of birth | Hondarribia, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Valencia (manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1990–1996 | Real Sociedad B | 39 | (2) |
| 1995–1996 | Real Sociedad | 5 | (1) |
| 1996–2000 | Toledo | 126 | (2) |
| 2000–2002 | Racing Ferrol | 61 | (7) |
| 2002–2003 | Leganés | 28 | (0) |
| 2003–2004 | Lorca Deportiva | 31 | (1) |
| Total | 281 | (13) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2004–2006 | Lorca Deportiva | ||
| 2006–2008 | Almería | ||
| 2008– | Valencia | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Unai Emery Etxegoien (born 3 November 1971 in Hondarribia, Gipuzkoa) is a Spanish football manager, currently in charge of Valencia CF.
During his playing days, spent almost exclusively in Segunda División – 215 matches in seven years – he operated as a left midfielder. He subsequently embarked on a managerial career.
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Playing career
Emery was a youth graduate of Real Sociedad, but never really broke into the first team (aged 24, he appeared in five La Liga matches, scoring against Albacete Balompié) and, after that, resumed his career mostly in the second level.
He retired with Lorca Deportiva CF at the age of 32, after one season in Segunda División B.
Coaching career
Lorca and Almería
As he was seriously injured in the knee while at Lorca in the 2004–05 season, Emery was offered the vacant manager spot by the club president, and immediately helped the club achieve promotion to the second division for the first time in its history, while beating top level side Málaga CF in the Spanish Cup.
In his second season, the Murcian club's first ever in the second division, the side finished fifth with 69 points, only five points off promotion to the top division; it suffered relegation the following campaign, after the manager's departure.
Emery then moved to UD Almería in the second level, and again helped his side overachieve; after guiding Almeria to a first ever promotion in 2007, the Andalusians finished eighth in the following campaign. This prompted a move to Valencia CF, as he succeeded Ronald Koeman.[1]
Valencia
Beginnings
In his first season with the Che side, Emery led it to a sixth place-finish, with the subsequent UEFA Europa League qualification, in spite of the club's serious financial problems. He led his team to the round of 32 in the UEFA Cup, a 3–3 aggregate loss against FC Dynamo Kyiv, and the quarter-finals of the domestic cup, exiting against Sevilla FC.
In 2009–10, Emery led Valencia to the third place, with the club returning to the UEFA Champions League after two years. In the season's Europa League, the team lost in the quarter-finals to eventual winners Atlético Madrid, on the away goals rule, and exited in the round of 16 in the season's domestic cup against Deportivo de La Coruña, losing 3–4 on aggregate.
After Villa and Silva
The 2010–11 season started without David Villa and David Silva, sold to FC Barcelona and Manchester City respectively. Still, Emery managed to win five out of the first six league games (one draw), starting the Champions League campaign with a 4–0 win in Turkey, against Bursaspor, a competition in which Valencia was eliminated in the round of 16 by FC Schalke 04, being ousted in the same stage in the Spanish Cup, by Villarreal CF.
In the domestic league, Valencia finished third, thus again qualifying to the Champions League.
Managerial stats
(last updated 24 December 2011)
| Nat | Team | From | To | Record | |||||||
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| G | W | D | L | GF | GA | +/− | Win % | ||||
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Lorca Deportiva | 2004 | 2006 | 80 | 36 | 22 | 22 | 117 | 78 | +39 | 45.00 |
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Almería | 2006 | 2008 | 80 | 38 | 18 | 24 | 115 | 94 | +21 | 47.50 |
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Valencia | 2008 | – | 184 | 93 | 49 | 42 | 328 | 218 | +110 | 50.54 |
| Total Career | 344 | 167 | 89 | 88 | 560 | 390 | +170 | 48.55 | |||
Honours
Individual
- Miguel Muñoz Trophy (Segunda División): 2005–06, 2006–07[2]
References
- ^ Emery to take on Valencia challenge; UEFA.com, 22 May 2008
- ^ Emery, protagonista a nivel nacional (Emery, a national protagonist) (Spanish)
External links
- Valencia official profile
- BDFutbol player profile
- BDFutbol coach profile
- Transfermarkt profile
- CiberChe biography (Spanish)
| Awards and achievements | ||
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| Preceded by None |
Miguel Muñoz Trophy Segunda División 2005–06 2006–07 |
Succeeded by Manuel Preciado |
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- 1971 births
- Living people
- People from Hondarribia
- Spanish footballers
- Basque footballers
- Association football midfielders
- La Liga footballers
- Real Sociedad footballers
- CD Toledo footballers
- Racing de Ferrol footballers
- CD Leganés footballers
- Lorca Deportiva footballers
- Spanish football managers
- La Liga managers
- UD Almería managers
- Valencia CF managers
