Albert Capellas

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Albert Capellas
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Personal information
Full name Albert Capellas Herms
Date of birth (1967-10-01) 1 October 1967 (age 55)
Place of birth Avinyó, Spain
Managerial career
YearsTeam
1991–1999 Gavà (assistant)
1999–2003 Barcelona B (assistant)
2010–2014 Vitesse (assistant)
2014–2015 Brøndby (assistant)
2016 Brøndby U17
2016–2017 Maccabi Tel Aviv (assistant)
2017 Borussia Dortmund (assistant)
2018–2019 Chongqing Liangjiang (assistant)
2019–2021 Denmark U21
2021 Barcelona B (interim)
2022–2023 FC Midtjylland

Albert Capellas Herms (born 1 October 1967), is a Spanish football manager. He was most recently the manager of FC Midtjylland.

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Career

Capellas was born in Avinyó, Barcelona, Catalonia. [1] After a modest career as a player, he joined CF Gavà in 1991 as assistant manager. Capellas later joined the youth academy of FC Barcelona where he was assistant manager of FC Barcelona B from 1999 to 2003 and then became the youth coordinator at FC Barcelona.

In 2010 he went to the Netherlands to be the assistant manager of Albert 'Chapi' Ferrer at Vitesse during the 2010–2011 season. After Albert Ferrer's departure following poor results, he continued working for three more seasons at the Dutch side as the assistant coach of John van den Brom and Peter Bosz. [2]

After leaving Vitesse in the summer of 2014, he went to Denmark to work as an assistant to Thomas Frank at Brøndby IF between 2014 and 2015. In addition, he was also the manager of the U-17 team during 2016. [3]

In the 2016–2017 season he became an assistant of Peter Bosz in Maccabi Tel Aviv FC.

On June 6, 2017 Peter Bosz brought Albert in as part of the Borussia Dortmund coaching staff. Both would be sacked in December 2017 after a series of poor results. [4]

In the summer of 2018, Capellas was hired as Jordi Cruyff's assistant at Chongqing Liangjiang in the Chinese Super League where he would stay until the end of the season. [5] Working together, the two managed to save Chongqing's status in the top flight of the Chinese Super League. [6]

Coaching career

In June 2019, he signed a contract with the Danish Football Federation to become the manager of the Denmark U21 national team. On October 16, 2020 after a 2-1 victory over Finland, Denmark qualified for the European Championship with good results. [7]

Following the dismissal of Ronald Koeman as FC Barcelona manager and the appointment of Sergi Barjuán as interim manager, Capellas was chosen as interim manager of FC Barcelona B during Barjuan's absence. [8]

On 24 August 2022 Capellas was named new manager of Danish Superliga side FC Midtjylland on at contract running until 2025. [9] He was sacked on 14 March 2023 with the club in 9th place in the Danish Superliga. [10]

Managerial statistics

As of match played 12 March 2023
Managerial record by team and tenure
TeamNatFromToRecordRef
GWDLGFGAGDWin %
Denmark U21 Flag of Denmark.svg 1 August 201930 June 20211612403212+20075.00 [11]
Barcelona B (interim) Flag of Spain.svg 28 October 20217 November 2021220061+5100.00 [12]
FC Midtjylland Flag of Denmark.svg 24 August 202214 March 2023258983629+7032.00 [13]
Career total43221387442+32051.16—

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References

  1. ↑ Albert Capellas manager profile at BDFutbol. Retrieved 13 November 2021.
  2. ↑ Ruiz, David (1 December 2012). "Albert Capellas: "El Vitesse puede jugar de tú a tú con los grandes y ganar"". La Vanguardia .
  3. ↑ "Albert Capellas, del Vitesse al Brondby". Mundo Deportivo . 2 April 2014.
  4. ↑ Castro, Juan (16 August 2017). "Albert Capellas, de La Masía a la Bundesliga". Marca .
  5. ↑ San Antonio, Iván (26 June 2019). "El español Albert Capellas, primer extranjero en entrenar a la sub-21 danesa". Mundo Deportivo .
  6. ↑ "La llegada de Jordi Cruyff al Barça vista por Albert Capellas". Mundo Deportivo. 3 August 2021.
  7. ↑ "Albert Capellas clasifica a la sub-21 de Dinamarca para la Eurocopa". Sport . 14 October 2020.
  8. ↑ "Oficial: Albert Capellas, nuevo entrenador interino del Barça B". Sport. 21 November 2021.
  9. ↑ "Officielt: FCM ansætter Albert Capellas". bold.dk. 24 August 2022.
  10. ↑ "Officielt: Albert Capellas er færdig i FC Midtjylland". bold.dk. 14 March 2023.
  11. ↑ "Denmark U21: Matches". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  12. ↑ "Matches Albert Capellas, 2021–22 season". BDFutbol. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
  13. ↑ "FC Midtjylland: Matches". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 9 December 2022.
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