Pablo Sanz (footballer, born 1973)

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Pablo Sanz
Personal information
Full name Pablo Sanz Iniesta
Date of birth (1973-08-30) 30 August 1973 (age 50)
Place of birth Barcelona, Spain
Height 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 West Ham United (assistant head coach)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1993–1994 Barcelona B 68 (11)
1994–1995 Gimnàstic 36 (1)
1995–1997 Barcelona B 56 (1)
1997–2004 Rayo Vallecano 168 (10)
2004–2005 Numancia 21 (1)
2005–2006 Sabadell 19 (2)
Managerial career
2014–2016 Porto (assistant)
2016–2018 Spain (assistant)
2018 Real Madrid (assistant)
2019–2022 Sevilla (assistant)
2022–2023 Wolverhampton Wanderers (assistant)
2024– West Ham United (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Pablo Sanz Iniesta (born 30 August 1973) is a Spanish former footballer who played as a midfielder, [1] [2] and the assistant head coach of Premier League club West Ham United.

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Playing career

Pablo Sanz was a Barcelona youth product and started his playing career at Barcelona B as midfielder. Due to a lack of playing time, he left for Gimnàstic after just one season. However, he returned to Barcelona B after another season, playing 56 matches and scoring one goal. After Barcelona, he joined Rayo Vallecano in 1997, playing for seven seasons before leaving in 2004, spending the majority of his career with them. He played 168 matches and scored 10 goals. [3]

In 2004, he joined Numancia and played one season and played 21 games and scored 1 goal, before leaving in 2005. His career ended with Sabadell, as he joined them in 2005 and stayed for one year, but retired at the end of 2006. [4]

Coaching career

In 2016, he joined Spain as an assistant of Julen Lopetegui. In 2018, he left the team with Lopetegui, [5] and joined him in Real Madrid as an assistant. [6] In 2019, he was appointed as the assistant coach of Sevilla. [7] [8] In 2022, he joined Wolverhampton Wanderers as Lopetegui's assistant. [9] Following Lopetegui’s appointment as head coach of WestHam United, Sanz joined the club as assistant head coach in May 2024. [10]

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References

  1. ↑ "Pablo Sanz, Pablo Sanz Iniesta - Footballer". www.bdfutbol.com. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  2. ↑ "Pablo Sanz". Pablo Sanz. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  3. ↑ "El último liderato del Rayo en Primera cumple 20 años". AS.com (in Spanish). 6 November 2019. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  4. ↑ "Pablo Sanz, segundo de Lopetegui en la selección". Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 23 July 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  5. ↑ "Lopetegui sacked as Spain manager: as it happened". AS.com. 13 June 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  6. ↑ "Real Madrid: Real Madrid announce Julen Lopetegui's coaching staff". MARCA in English. 11 July 2018. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  7. ↑ "Lo que más me gusta es que es un formato en el que todos juegan contra todos". La Voz de Galicia (in Spanish). 19 June 2016. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  8. ↑ "Who is the number two coach at each LaLiga Santander club?". MARCA in English. 4 March 2020. Retrieved 10 June 2020.
  9. ↑ "Lopetegui's backroom team takes shape". Wolverhampton Wanderers FC. 10 November 2022. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
  10. ↑ "Assistant Head Coach". West Ham United F.C. 27 May 2024. Retrieved 28 May 2024.
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