Pablo Grandes

Pablo Grandes

Grandes with Al-Minaa in 2024
Personal information
Full name	Pablo María Grandes Melgarejo
Date of birth	(1986-10-14) 14 October 1986 (age 37)
Place of birth	Puerto de Santa María, Spain
Team information
Current team	Al-Minaa (manager)
Youth career
	Xerez
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2007–2008	Torredonjimeno
Managerial career
2016–2017	Xerez Deportivo (youth)
2017–2021	Cádiz (youth)
2021–2022	Logroñés B
2022	Vélez (assistant)
2022	San Fernando (assistant)
2022–2024	Iraq (match analyst)
2024	Iraq Olympic (assistant)
2024–	Al-Minaa
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Pablo Grandes Melgarejo (born 14 October 1986) is a Spanish football coach and current manager of Iraq Stars League club Al-Minaa. ^{[1] [2] [3]}

Early years

Grandes began playing football in the lower categories of his hometown Puerto de Santa María, then in the youth team of Xerez. In Andalusia he played for Torredonjimeno in the Tercera División and had a small experience in a team in the Scottish Second Division in 2010. He returned to play in the Andalusian teams and at the same time obtained his coaching license by working as a player trainer in Puerto de Santa María. ^[4]

Managerial and coaching career

Early career

Grandes began his coaching career in the youth team of Cádiz, then he was the coach at Logroñés B, then Vélez, and San Fernando as an assistant manager. He has always worked as a coach except for the Cádiz youth academy where he did everything: technical training, scouting, analysis. ^{[4] [5]}

Iraq & Iraq Olympic

On November 5, 2022, Jesús Casas was appointed coach of the Iraq national team by the IFA. ^[6] Casas chose Grandes to be part of his assistant staff as a match analyst, and he was able to lead the Iraq to win the Arabian Gulf Cup for the first time in 35 years, as they had previously worked together at Cádiz youth, when Casas was the coach and Grandes his assistant. ^{[4] [7]}

On May 27, 2024, the coach of the Iraq Olympic, Radhi Shenaishil, chose Grandes to join his assistant staff in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris, while continuing to work with the national team staff as well. ^{[8] [9] [10]}

Al-Minaa

On July 29, 2024, the management of Al-Minaa, which is active in the Iraq Stars League, announced that it had contracted with Grandes to lead its team in the league. ^{[11] [12] [13]}

Managerial statistics

As of match played 22 September 2024

Team	Nat	From	To	Record
				G	W	D	L	Win %
Logroñés B		1 July 2021	31 March 2022	30	13	8	9	043.33
Al-Minaa		29 July 2024	Present	1	1	0	0	100.00
Total			31	14	8	9	045.16

References

1. "Iraq coach makes decision after assistant signs with Al-Minaa". dzairsport.net. July 29, 2024.
2. "الاسباني بابلو غراندز مدرباً لفريق الميناء". today-agency.net (in Arabic). July 29, 2024.
3. "الميناء يتعاقد مع المدرب بابلو غرنانديز". ysscores.com (in Arabic). July 29, 2024.
4. "Pablo Grandes: "El jugador iraquí tiene un gran gen competitivo"". golsmedia.com (in Spanish). February 9, 2024.
5. "Pablo Grandes, nuevo entrenador del Juvenil A". sfcd.es (in Spanish). Retrieved July 31, 2024.
6. "الإسباني خيسوس كاساس مدرباً للمنتخب العراقي رسمياً". arabic.euronews.com (in Arabic). November 6, 2022.
7. "Pablo Grandes. «La llegada de LaLiga es importantísima para el fútbol de Irak»". arabic.euronews.com (in Spanish). September 7, 2023.
8. "راضي شنيشل يستعين بمساعدي كاساس". shafaq.com (in Arabic). May 27, 2024.
9. "Pablo Grandes: un portuense en los próximos Juegos Olímpicos". lavozdigital.es (in Spanish). May 29, 2024.
10. "Pablo Grandes: de Las Marías a París pasando por el Poli". lavozdigital.es (in Spanish). June 22, 2024.
11. "Al-Minaa signs coach Pablo Gernandez". ysscores.com. July 29, 2024.
12. "Pablo Grandes asume el cargo de entrenador del Al Minaa SC". informacional.es (in Spanish). July 29, 2024.
13. "Pablo Grandes, nuevo entrenador del Al Minaa SC". lavozdigital.es (in Spanish). July 29, 2024.

External links

• Pablo Grandes coach profile at Lapreferente.com
• Pablo Grandes coach profile at Worldfootball.net