Personal information | |||
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Full name | Pablo Villar Ferreiro | ||
Date of birth | 4 September 1986 | ||
Place of birth | Avilés, Spain | ||
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Meizhou Hakka (manager) | ||
Youth career | |||
Colegio San Fernando | |||
Histórico Carbayedo | |||
Navarro | |||
Quirinal | |||
2003–2004 | Avilés | ||
2004–2005 | Pontevedra | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2005–2006 | Villalonga | 17 | (0) |
2006–2007 | Arosa | 18 | (0) |
2007–2008 | Cudillero | 7 | (0) |
2008–2009 | Compostela | 0 | (0) |
2009 | Noia | 10 | (0) |
2009–2010 | Avilés | 9 | (0) |
2010 | Compostela | 0 | (0) |
2011 | Ribadesella | 11 | (0) |
Total | 72 | (0) | |
Managerial career | |||
2009–2010 | Avilés (youth) | ||
2011–2012 | Ribadedeva | ||
2013–2014 | Luarca | ||
2014–2016 | Tineo | ||
2016 | Ribadedeva | ||
2016–2017 | Urraca | ||
2021 | Pohronie | ||
2022–2023 | Riteriai | ||
2023 | Vizela | ||
2024– | Meizhou Hakka | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Pablo Villar Ferreiro (born 4 September 1986) is a Spanish football manager and former player who played as a goalkeeper. He is the current head coach of Chinese Super League club Meizhou Hakka.
After working as an assistant manager and in the amateur leagues of his own country from his mid-20s, he managed in his own right in the Slovak Super Liga, Lithuanian A Lyga and Portuguese Primeira Liga.
Born in Avilés, Asturias, Villar represented Colegio San Fernando, Club Histórico de Carbayedo, CD Quirinal, Real Avilés CF and Pontevedra CF as a youth. He made his senior debut with Tercera División side Villalonga FC in 2006, and later represented Arosa SC before returning to his home region in 2007. [1]
After spending the pre-season with Segunda División B side Marino de Luanco, Villar signed for CD Cudillero in the fourth tier on 15 August 2007. [2] He moved to fellow league team SD Compostela on 11 July 2008, [3] but finished the campaign at Preferente Autonómica side CF Noia. [1]
On 14 July 2009, Villar returned to Avilés, now for the first team also in the fourth division. [4] He returned to Compos in July 2010, but left the club in November due to their financial problems, [5] and trained with Marino before signing for Ribadesella CF on 1 February 2011. [6]
In 2009, after being announced at Avilés as a player, Villar was also named manager of the Alevín squad and a fitness coach of the youth sides. [7] In 2011, he was appointed manager of AD Ribadedeva in the Primera Regional de Asturias, while also being a goalkeeping coach at Quirinal and CD Femiastur. [8]
In June 2012, Villar became Fabri González's assistant at Segunda División side SD Huesca. [9] On 25 June 2013, he returned to managerial duties, being named at the helm of Luarca CF in the fourth tier. [10] [11] He left the club in the following May, after suffering relegation, and was appointed CD Tineo manager on 22 May 2014. [12]
Villar led Tineo to a first-ever promotion the fourth tier in his first season, [13] and left the club in 2016, after avoiding relegation. He returned to Ribadedeva on 16 June of that year, [14] but left the club on 15 August, after having altercations with the board. [15]
On 1 November 2016, Villar was named manager of Urraca CF, still in division four. [16] He left the club the following 14 February, after being hired by the Chinese Ministry of Education to work in Tianjin. [17]
Villar returned to Spain in December 2017, joining Fabri's staff at Lorca FC in the second division. [18] He followed the manager to FC Karpaty Lviv in Ukraine before being named assistant at Qingdao Hainiu FC on 20 December 2019. [19]
In October 2021, Villar became the first Spaniard to manage in the Slovak Super Liga, after being appointed in charge of FK Pohronie. [20] He was dismissed on 21 December, [21] and took over FK Riteriai in Lithuania's A Lyga on 24 May 2022. [22] Villar was sacked by Riteriai on 24 March 2023, after a poor start of the season. [23]
On 2 June 2023, Villar signed a one-year contract at F.C. Vizela of the Portuguese Primeira Liga, succeeding Tulipa. [24] [25] On 18 December 2023, with the club sitting in 17th place in the league table, after two victories, five draws and seven losses in fourteen matches, [26] Villar's contract was terminated and he left Vizela. [27]
On 6 January 2024, Villar was appointed as manager of Chinese Super League club Meizhou Hakka. [28]
Team | Nat | From | To | Record | |||||||
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G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | ||||
Pohronie | 4 October 2021 | 31 December 2021 | 10 | 2 | 2 | 6 | 9 | 16 | −7 | 20.00 | |
Riteriai | 22 May 2022 | 24 March 2023 | 28 | 11 | 6 | 11 | 39 | 40 | −1 | 39.29 | |
Vizela | 1 July 2023 | 18 December 2023 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 19 | 25 | −6 | 27.78 | |
Meizhou Hakka | 6 January 2024 | Present | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | +0 | — | |
Total | 56 | 18 | 13 | 25 | 67 | 81 | −14 | 32.14 |
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