Raül Agné Montull (born 24 May 1970) is a Spanish retired

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who played as a

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, currently a

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Playing career

Born in

Mequinenza Mequinenza (Aragonese and ) or Mequinensa () is a town and municipality of the province of Zaragoza, in the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It is located beside the river Segre, close to its confluence with the river Ebro between the Mequi ...

Province of Zaragoza Zaragoza (), also called Saragossa in English,''Encyclopædia Britannica''Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)/ref> is a province of northern Spain, in the central part of the autonomous community of Aragon. Its capital is Zaragoza, which is also th ...

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, Agné never competed in higher than

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during his 14-year senior career. He represented CD Mequinenza,

Deportivo Aragón Real Zaragoza Deportivo Aragón is the reserve team of Real Zaragoza, a Spanish football club based in Zaragoza, in the autonomous community of Aragon. Founded in 1958, currently plays in Segunda Federación – Group 3, holding home matches at ...

Girona FC Girona Futbol Club, S.A.D. is a professional football club based in Girona, Catalonia, Spain. Founded on 23 July 1930, it plays in La Liga, to which they gained promotion in the 2022 Segunda División play-offs. Girona holds its home matches at ...

(two stints),

UE Figueres Unió Esportiva Figueres is a Spanish football team based in Figueres, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. Founded in 1919 and refounded in 2007 it plays in the Primera Catalana league, holding home matches at ''Estadi Municipal de Vilateni ...

CD Binéfar Club Deportivo Binéfar is a Spanish football team based in Binéfar, in the autonomous community of Aragon. Founded in 1922 it plays in 3ª – Group 17, holding home matches at '' Campo de Deportes de los Olmos'', with a capacity of 1,250 seat ...

Palamós CF Palamós Club de Futbol, S.A.D. is a Spanish football team based in Palamós, a town and commercial port in the ''Costa Brava'', in the autonomous community of Catalonia. Founded in the late 19th century, it currently plays in '' Tercera Divisió ...

, retiring in 2004 at the age of 34. Agné shared teams with his twin brother Vidal whilst with Binéfar, and also acted as manager to the youth sides.

Coaching career

Agné began his coaching career at CF Peralada one year after retiring, missing out on promotion from

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in his first season. In 2006, he was appointed at former club Palamós, leaving the following year. In June 2007, Agné signed with Girona. After leading the team to

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promotion in the play-offs, he was dismissed on 18 May 2009 after a bad run of results. Agné moved to

Recreativo de Huelva Real Club Recreativo de Huelva, S.A.D. () is a Spanish football club based in Huelva, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded on 23 December 1889, 2 days before Christmas, they are the oldest football club in Spain, and currently play i ...

on 1 December 2009, resigning on 14 June of the following year due to "personal reasons". He returned to Girona the following summer, taking them to a comfortable mid-table finish in the second division in his debut campaign and subsequently renewing for two years; he was relieved of his duties, however, on 15 January 2012. On 10 December 2012, Agné joined

Cádiz CF Cádiz Club de Fútbol, S.A.D., known simply as Cádiz, is a Spanish professional football club based in Cádiz, Andalusia. Founded in 1910, the club competes in the La Liga, holding home games at Nuevo Mirandilla, with a seating capacity of 20 ...

as the club neared the relegation zone in the third tier. He was sacked on 18 March 2014, with the side still in that league. Agné was named

CD Tenerife Club Deportivo Tenerife, S.A.D. is a Spanish football club based in Santa Cruz de Tenerife, Tenerife, in the Canary Islands. Founded in 1912, the club plays in the Segunda División, holding home matches at the Estadio Heliodoro Rodríguez Lóp ...

manager on 3 February 2015, taking over from

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at the second division team. On 3 November, after 31 competitive games – one in the

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– he was dismissed. After nearly one year of inactivity, Agné replaced the fired Luis Milla at the helm of

Real Zaragoza Real Zaragoza, S.A.D. (), commonly referred to as Zaragoza, is a football club based in Zaragoza, Aragon, Spain, that currently competes in the Segunda División, the second tier of the Spanish league system. Zaragoza holds its home games at La ...

. On 19 March 2017, he too was sacked. Agné moved abroad for the first time in December 2017, when he took the job at

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. He and compatriot assistant Arnau Sala left the following August, with the team second-bottom. In October 2019, Agné replaced Enrique Martín at the helm of third-tier

Córdoba CF Córdoba Club de Fútbol (), (from the 2020–21 season onwards competing under the umbrella of Unión Futbolística Cordobesa, S.A.D.) is a Spanish football club based in Córdoba, in the autonomous community of Andalusia. Founded in 1951 as ...

for the rest of the season with the option of a second. He lasted only until 10 March, when he himself was replaced by

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. On 28 May 2021, Agné was named manager of

Gimnàstic de Tarragona Club Gimnàstic de Tarragona, commonly known as Gimnàstic Tarragona or sometimes just Nàstic, is a Spanish sports club based in Tarragona, in the autonomous community of Catalonia. Its football team plays in Primera División RFEF – Group 2. ...

of the newly formed

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. After missing out promotion in the last round of the play-offs, he was dismissed on 15 January 2023, with the club in the 12th position of the

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Personal life

Whilst at the service of Girona, Agné walked out of a press conference in February 2011 following an away game against

SD Huesca Sociedad Deportiva Huesca, S.A.D., is a Spanish football club in Huesca, in the autonomous community of Aragon. Founded on 29 March 1960, SD Huesca plays in the Segunda División, having played in the Spanish top division for the first time in t ...

after not being allowed to express himself in

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. This sparked a wave of solidarity on the internet, and Catalan essayist

Quim Monzó Joaquim Monzó i Gómez (born 15 March 1952), also known as Quim Monzó (), is a contemporary Spanish writer of novels, short stories and discursive prose, mostly in Catalan. In the early 1970s, Monzó reported from Vietnam, Cambodia, Northern ...

wrote an opinion piece on the subject for ''

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'' under the title "! تحيا كاتالونيا حرة" (Arabic translation of the independentist slogan ''Visca Catalunya Lliure!'' – Long Live Free Catalonia!).

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