José Antonio 'Toni' Grande Cereijo (born 17 September 1947) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a

central midfielder A midfielder is an outfield position in association football. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...

, and is an assistant manager.

Playing career

Born in

Valencia Valencia ( va, València) is the capital of the autonomous community of Valencia and the third-most populated municipality in Spain, with 791,413 inhabitants. It is also the capital of the province of the same name. The wider urban area al ...

, Grande graduated from Real Madrid's youth academy, going on to play 111 competitive games during his five-year spell with the first team, winning two

La Liga The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Primera División, commonly known simply as Primera División in Spain, and as La Liga in English-speaking countries and officially as LaLiga Santander for sponsorship reasons, stylized as LaLiga, is the men' ...

championships and one

Copa del Rey The Campeonato de España–Copa de Su Majestad el Rey, commonly known as Copa del Rey or simply La Copa and formerly known as Copa del Presidente de la República (1932–36) and Copa del Generalísimo (1939–76), is an annual knockout footb ...

trophy."Cuando iba con Vicente al palco del Bernabéu nos sentíamos incómodos" ("When I went with Vicente to the Bernabéu stands we felt uneasy")

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, 1 February 2017 (in Spanish) He made his league debut on 19 January 1969 in a 2–2 away draw against Córdoba CF (90 minutes played), but only made a combined fourteen appearances in his first two seasons. Additionally, Grande also represented

Rayo Vallecano Rayo Vallecano de Madrid, S.A.D. (), often abbreviated to Rayo (Spanish for "thunderbolt"), is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid, in the neighbourhood of Vallecas. Rayo was founded on 29 May 1924, and currently compete in La Li ...

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Granada CF Granada Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. (), known simply as Granada, is a Spanish football club based in the city of Granada, in the autonomous community of Andalusia, that plays in the Segunda División, after being relegated from La Liga in the 2021� ...

and Palencia CF, the first and the last being the only clubs with which he did not play in the top division, where he amassed totals of 176 matches and 31 goals. He retired from professional football at the age of 31. Internationally, Grande competed for

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at the

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Coaching career

Grande returned to Real Madrid in 1979, managing several youth teams as well as Real Madrid Castilla and Real Madrid C. In the late 90s/early 2000s he worked as first-team assistant under several coaches, mainly

Vicente del Bosque Vicente del Bosque González, 1st Marquess of Del Bosque (; born 23 December 1950) is a Spanish retired football manager and former player. He is regarded as one of the greatest managers of all time and is to date the only football manager to ha ...

, then left the club briefly and returned again, being part of Fabio Capello's coaching staff as the side won the 2007 national championship. In 2004, Grande re-joined del Bosque during his brief adventure in

Turkey Turkey ( tr, Türkiye ), officially the Republic of Türkiye ( tr, Türkiye Cumhuriyeti, links=no ), is a transcontinental country located mainly on the Anatolian Peninsula in Western Asia, with a small portion on the Balkan Peninsula in ...

with

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. The pair reunited again four years later, in the same capacity, at the Spain national team. On 2 November 2017, Grande was named assistant coach of

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under

Shin Tae-Yong Shin Tae-yong (, Hanja: 申台龍; born on 11 May 1970) is a South Korean former professional footballer and manager who is currently coaching the Indonesia national football team. He is the first man to win the Asian Club Championship/AFC Cha ...

for their 2018 FIFA World Cup campaign.Toni Grande y Javier Miñano refuerzan a Corea del Sur con vistas al Mundial (Toni Grande and Javier Miñano bolster South Korea ahead of the World Cup)
Marca, 3 November 2017 (in Spanish)

Managerial statistics

Honours

Real Madrid *

: 1968–69, 1971–72 * Copa del Generalísimo: 1969–70

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Grande, Toni 1947 births Living people Spanish footballers Footballers from Valencia Association football midfielders La Liga players Segunda División players Real Madrid CF players Rayo Vallecano players Racing de Santander players Granada CF footballers Spain under-23 international footballers Spain amateur international footballers Olympic footballers of Spain Footballers at the 1968 Summer Olympics Spanish football managers Segunda División managers Segunda División B managers Real Madrid C managers Real Madrid Castilla managers Real Madrid CF non-playing staff Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Turkey Spanish expatriate sportspeople in South Korea Palencia CF players