Juan Carlos Garrido Fernández (born 29 March 1969) is a Spanish

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. He managed

Villarreal Villarreal ( ca-valencia , Vila-real) is a city and municipality in the province of Castellón which is part of the Valencian Community in the east of Spain. The town is located at 42 m above sea level, 7 km to the south of the province's ...

and Betis in

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before working for several years in the Arab world, winning the

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with Egypt's

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and Morocco's

Raja CA Raja Club Athletic ( ar, نادي الرجاء الرياضي, Nādī ar-Rajāʾ ar-Riyāḍī, zgh, ⴰⵙⵔⵉⵔ ⵏ ⵕⴰⵊⴰ ⴰⵎⴰⵏⵓⵏ), commonly referred to as Raja CA, Raja Casablanca or simply RCA is a professional footb ...

Football career

Villarreal

Born in

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, Garrido started managing at only 24, his first club being local amateurs El Puig Club de Fútbol. In the 1998–99 season he coached

CD Onda Club Deportivo Onda is a Spanish football team based in Onda, Castellón, in the autonomous community of Valencia. Founded in 1950 it plays in Regional Preferente – Group 1, holding home games at ''Estadio La Serratella'', with a capacity of ...

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as the side was

Villarreal CF Villarreal Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. ( ca-valencia, Vila-real Club de Futbol, S.A.D.), usually abbreviated to Villarreal CF or simply Villarreal, is a professional football club based in Villarreal, in the Castellón province of eastern Spain, th ...

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, a club to which he would be closely associated in the following years. In 2003, Garrido led the reserves– Onda was now an independent team – to a fourth-division promotion, then was in charge of them for a couple of months in 2004 also in that tier. In October 2004, he was again named manager of the B side in the place of

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, and narrowly missed out another promotion after finishing fifth. After the appointment of Luis García as manager in May 2005, Garrido returned to his previous duties in the backroom staff. On 18 January 2008, he replaced sacked

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at the helm of Villarreal B, eventually leading them to the 11th position in

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and achieving a first-ever

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promotion the following campaign. On 1 February 2010, Garrido was appointed first-team manager following the dismissal of

Ernesto Valverde Ernesto Valverde Tejedor (born 9 February 1964) is a Spanish football manager and former player who played as a forward. He is the current manager of La Liga club Athletic Bilbao. Over ten seasons, he amassed La Liga totals of 264 games and 68 ...

after a 0–2 home loss against

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. On 26 April, before the season in

was over, he was handed a contract set to expire in June 2011; the side finished in seventh position but, after

RCD Mallorca Real Club Deportivo Mallorca, S.A.D. (, ca, Reial Club Deportiu Mallorca , ''Royal Sporting Club Mallorca''), commonly known as Real Mallorca or just Mallorca is a Spanish professional football club based in Palma on the island of Majorca in ...

were deemed ineligible for

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in the

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due to financial irregularities, the

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took their place. In his first full season, Garrido led the club to the fourth place in the league, with the subsequent

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to the

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. The team also reached the semi-finals in the Europa League, being ousted by eventual winners

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. Garrido and Villarreal could not manage one single point in the Champions League in 2011–12, and the latter ranked dangerously close to the relegation zone in the league in that period. On 21 December 2011, following a 0–2 home loss against

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in the

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of the

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(1–3 on aggregate), he was sacked.

Club Brugge and Betis

On 15 November 2012, Garrido replaced fired

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. He was relieved of his duties in September of the following year, replacing fired

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at the helm of

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two months later; on 19 January 2014, after only nine official matches and only one win, he was himself sacked after three consecutive defeats – the last one in the league 5–0 at home to

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– and with the

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ns finishing

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Africa and Arabia

On 8 July 2014, Garrido was appointed at

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in the

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. Late into the month, he led his new team to a 1–0 win against Séwé FC for the

which the club eventually won, also conquering the

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; on 3 May 2015, however, he was dismissed. On 6 November 2016, Garrido was appointed manager of

Ettifaq FC Al Ettifaq Football Club ( ar, نادي الاتفاق لكرة القدم) is a professional football club in Dammam, Saudi Arabia. Al-Ettifaq was established after the merging of three clubs in the city of Dammam at the year 1944. Al Ettifaq i ...

in the

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, signing a seven-month deal with an option for another season according to result and team performance. He was relieved of his duties the following February, with the side in eighth place after 22 matches. Garrido switched clubs and countries again in June 2017, joining

from Morocco. His first game in charge of the latter took place on 10 September, in a 1–1 away draw against

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. He won the year's Throne Cup with a

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victory over

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on 18 November, and a year later the

with a 4–3 aggregate win over

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from the

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. A month after being sacked by Raja, in February 2019 Garrido replaced

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club

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for the rest of the season. At its closure, he was succeeded by another Croat,

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. Garrido was hired by Tunisia's

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on 20 November 2019, on a deal until June 2021. Less than three months later, however, he was dismissed due to poor results. On 25 February 2020, Garrido returned to

Casablanca Casablanca, also known in Arabic as Dar al-Bayda ( ar, الدَّار الْبَيْضَاء, al-Dār al-Bayḍāʾ, ; ber, ⴹⴹⴰⵕⵍⴱⵉⴹⴰ, ḍḍaṛlbiḍa, : "White House") is the largest city in Morocco and the country's econom ...

, joining Raja's rivals

Wydad AC Wydad Athletic Club ( ar, نادي الوداد الرياضي, ) commonly referred to as Wydad AC and known as Wydad, or simply as WAC, is a Moroccan sports club based in Casablanca. Wydad AC is best known for its professional Association footba ...

. He was fired in September despite taking the team to the Champions League semi-finals, as they were trailing Raja by four points on the domestic front. Garrido returned to Spain on 12 January 2021 after nearly seven years, being appointed manager of

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in the second division. He was dismissed on 21 May, as the club faced relegation with two games remaining. On 20 September 2022, Garrido went back to Egypt's top flight, taking over at last-placed

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. He was shown the door on 9 December, after taking two points from five games.

Managerial statistics

Honours

Al Ahly *

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Raja Casablanca *

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References

External links

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Official website
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