Víctor Fernández Braulio (born 28 November 1960) is a Spanish
football
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manager
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.
He had three spells with his hometown team
Zaragoza
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, winning the
Copa del Rey
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in
1994
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and the
Cup Winners' Cup
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a year later. He also led
Tenerife
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,
Celta
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,
Betis and
Deportivo La Coruña
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* Deportivo de La Coruña, commonly known as simply Deportivo, a Spanish football club
* Déportivo, a French rock band
* Deportivo (Mexicable), an aerial lift station in Ecatepec, Mexico
* Deport ...
in
La Liga
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, and won the
Intercontinental Cup in a brief spell at
Porto
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in
2004
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Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
.
Football career
Zaragoza
Fernández was born in
Zaragoza
Zaragoza, also known in English as Saragossa,''Encyclopædia Britannica'"Zaragoza (conventional Saragossa)" is the capital city of the Zaragoza Province and of the autonomous community of Aragon, Spain. It lies by the Ebro river and its tributari ...
,
Aragon
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. Late into the
1990–91 season, aged only 30, he was promoted to hometown
Real Zaragoza
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's first team, eventually leading it to the 17th league position and avoiding
La Liga
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relegation in the playoffs against
Real Murcia
Real Murcia Club de Fútbol, S.A.D., commonly known as Real Murcia (, "Royal Murcia"), is a Spanish football club based in Murcia, in the Región de Murcia. Founded in 1919, it currently plays in Primera División RFEF – Group 2, playing ho ...
; at the time of his beginnings, he was the second youngest manager to ever coach in the league after
Xabier Azkargorta
Francisco Xabier Azkargorta Uriarte (born 26 September 1953) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a forward, and is a manager.
Football career
Born in Azpeitia, Gipuzkoa, Azkargorta spent five years under contract to Athletic Bilbao af ...
.
In the following years, Fernández helped Zaragoza consolidate in the top division, notably reconverting
Gustavo Poyet
Gustavo Augusto Poyet Domínguez (; born 15 November 1967) is a Uruguayan professional football manager and former footballer. He is currently the head coach of the Greece national football team.
Poyet played as a midfielder and began his caree ...
from
forward
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to
attacking midfielder
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and winning the
Copa del Rey
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in
1994
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and the
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
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in
the next season. He was relieved of his duties on 8 November 1996, meeting the same fate
the following year with his next club,
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 ...
.
Celta
In May 1998, Fernández was appointed to replace
Javier Irureta
Javier Iruretagoyena Amiano (born 1 April 1948), Irureta for short, is a Spanish retired football attacking midfielder and manager.
He had a distinguished playing career with Atlético Madrid and Athletic Bilbao, playing in 344 La Liga games ...
at
RC Celta de Vigo
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, Profiting from the recent
Bosman ruling
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, his team fielded many
European Union
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players such as
Claude Makélélé
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, as well as those from further afield such as the Israeli
Haim Revivo
Haim Michael Revivo ( he, חיים מיכאל רביבו; born 22 February 1972) is a retired Israeli football player who played as a midfielder, and a businessman.
Sports career
Revivo is Jewish and was born to a traditional Mizrahi Jewish fami ...
and Russian midfield duo
Valeri Karpin
Valery Georgiyevich Karpin (russian: Валерий Георгиевич Карпин; born 2 February 1969) is a football manager and former player who manages FC Rostov and the Russian national team. He is a former midfielder, primarily a ri ...
and
Aleksandr Mostovoi
Aleksandr Vladimirovich Mostovoi (russian: link=no, Алекса́ндр Влади́мирович Мостово́й ; born 22 August 1968) is a Russian former professional footballer who played as an attacking midfielder.
Known as ''O Zar de ...
; the
Galician team played highly attractive football and were known as ''EuroCelta'' for their performances in continental competitions.
Fernández led Celta in the
UEFA Cup
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in each of his four seasons, reaching the quarter-finals on all but one occasion; highlights included a 3–1 win over
Liverpool
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in November 1998, a 7–0 rout of
S.L. Benfica
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a year later and a 4–0 victory at
Juventus F.C.
)''I Bianconeri'' (The White and Blacks)''Le Zebre'' (The Zebras)''La Signora Omicidi'' (The Killer Lady)''La Gheuba'' (: The Hunchback)
, founded = as Sport-Club Juventus
, ground = Juventus Stadium
, capacity = 41,507
, owner = Agnelli ...
in March 2000. His team
won
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the
UEFA Intertoto Cup
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in the summer of 2000, with a 4–3 aggregate defeat of
FC Zenit Saint Petersburg
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.
Domestically, he surprisingly lost the
2001 Copa del Rey Final
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3–1 to Zaragoza, who had barely avoided relegation.
Betis
Fernández was appointed at fellow top flight team
Real Betis
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in May 2002, after the exit of
Juande Ramos
Juan de la Cruz "Juande" Ramos Cano (born 25 September 1954) is a Spanish former footballer and manager.
After playing and managing at an amateur level, Ramos led Rayo Vallecano to promotion to La Liga, followed by reaching the quarter-finals o ...
. He finished
eighth and
ninth
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Like the second, the interval of a ninth is classified as a dissonance in common practice tonality. Since a ninth is an octave larger than a second, its ...
respectively in his two years, and his team were eliminated from the
third round of the UEFA Cup by
AJ Auxerre
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in his first campaign.
Porto
In August 2004, Fernández moved abroad and joined Portuguese club
FC Porto
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; the
UEFA Champions League
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holders had dismissed
Luigi Delneri
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After a playing career as a midfielder including for several Serie A clubs, he began managing in the lower leagues, a ...
before a single competitive game. He won on his debut on 20 August in the
Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
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, with new signing
Ricardo Quaresma
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He began his career at Sporting CP and went on to play for Barcelona, Inter Milan, Porto (twice), Chelsea, Beşiktaş ...
scoring the only goal of
a win against
rivals
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Benfica;
on 12 December he added
the conquest of the last ever
Intercontinental Cup with a
penalty shootout
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victory over Colombia's
Once Caldas
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They were the surprise winners ...
.
Domestically, Fernández's team gave up their
Primeira Liga
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lead to Benfica on 20 November 2004 when they lost 1–0 at home to neighbours
Boavista FC
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. Home form was a struggle with three wins from the first seven fixtures, including another single-goal defeat to
S.C. Beira-Mar
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two weeks later. He was abruptly dismissed the following January following a 1–3 defeat to
S.C. Braga
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, again at the
Estádio do Dragão
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.
Returns to Zaragoza and Betis
Fernández returned to his beloved Zaragoza for the
2006–07 campaign,
qualifying the side for the
UEFA Cup
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in his first year but being sacked midway through
his second, as the season eventually ended in relegation.
In another return, Fernández joined Betis in late January 2010, replacing fired
Antonio Tapia
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Career
Born in Baena, Córdoba, Tapia had an unassuming career as a footballer, only representing Atlético Malagueño and amateurs UD Fuengirola. Still not in hi ...
. During his spell the ''Verdiblancos'' were the team in the league with the most points, but they
missed out on promotion from
Segunda División
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after being beaten to promotion places through head-to-head against
Hércules CF
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and
Levante UD
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Founded on 9 September 1909, Levante ...
, despite beating the latter 4–0 on the final day.
Later years
On 9 January 2013, Fernández moved for his second experience abroad, signing a contract with Belgium's
K.A.A. Gent
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. He was sacked on 30 September 2013, due to poor results.
Fernández was appointed as the new manager of
Deportivo de La Coruña
Real Club Deportivo de La Coruña (), commonly known as Deportivo La Coruña (), Deportivo or simply Dépor, is a professional association football, football club based in the city of A Coruña, Galicia (Spain), Galicia, Spain. They currently p ...
on 10 July 2014, succeeding
Fernando Vázquez
Fernando Vázquez Pena (born 24 October 1954) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a central midfielder, currently a manager.
Managerial career
Born in the village of Castrofeito, O Pino, Galicia, Vázquez was an English teacher in La ...
. He was relieved of his duties on 9 April of the following year, with the team eventually
narrowly escaping relegation.
In the summer of 2015, Fernández signed for
Real Madrid
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Founded in 1902 as Madrid Football Club, the club has traditionally wor ...
as youth system coordinator. He left the
Santiago Bernabéu Stadium
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in 2017, and on 17 December 2018 he returned to Zaragoza for a third stint as manager replacing the dismissed
Lucas Alcaraz
Luis Lucas Alcaraz González (born 21 June 1966) is a Spanish retired footballer, currently manager of UD Ibiza.
In a managerial career of over two decades, he competed in ten La Liga seasons at the helm of Recreativo, Racing de Santander, Gra ...
.
Fernández resigned on 18 August 2020, after losing the
play-off semi-finals to
Elche CF
Elche Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. ( ca-valencia, Elx Club de Futbol, S.A.D.) is a professional football based in Elche, Province of Alicante, in the Valencian Community. Founded in 1923, the club competes in La Liga, holding home matches at ''Estadi ...
.
Managerial statistics
Honours
Zaragoza
*
Copa del Rey
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:
1993–94
*
UEFA Cup Winners' Cup
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:
1994–95
Celta
*
UEFA Intertoto Cup
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:
2000
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[
Porto
*]Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira
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: 2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
[
* Intercontinental Cup: ]2004
2004 was designated as an International Year of Rice by the United Nations, and the International Year to Commemorate the Struggle Against Slavery and its Abolition (by UNESCO).
Events January
* January 3 – Flash Airlines Flight 6 ...
[
]
References
External links
*
{{DEFAULTSORT:Fernandez, Victor
1960 births
Living people
Sportspeople from Zaragoza
Spanish footballers
Footballers from Aragon
Association football midfielders
Tercera División players
Spanish football managers
La Liga managers
Segunda División managers
Segunda División B managers
Real Zaragoza managers
CD Tenerife managers
RC Celta de Vigo managers
Real Betis managers
Deportivo de La Coruña managers
Primeira Liga managers
FC Porto managers
Belgian First Division A managers
K.A.A. Gent managers
Spanish expatriate football managers
Expatriate football managers in Portugal
Expatriate football managers in Belgium
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Portugal
Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Belgium
Real Madrid CF non-playing staff