Ángel López (football manager)

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Ángel López Pérez (born 5 April 1983) is a Spanish professional football manager and former player who is the current manager of Greek Super League club Volos.

Ángel López
Personal information
Full name Ángel López Pérez
Date of birth (1983-04-05) 5 April 1983 (age 41)
Place of birth Madrid, Spain
Team information
Current team
Volos (manager)
Youth career
Years Team
Vicálvaro
Roma
San Fernando Henares
Managerial career
2017–2018 Recreativo
2018–2019 Equatorial Guinea
2020 Delfín
2020–2021 Volos
2021 Atromitos
2022 Surkhon Termez
2023 Ethnikos Achna
2023– Volos

Playing career

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Born in Madrid, López represented Vicálvaro, Roma and San Fernando Henares as a youth before retiring at the age of 18 to start his studies.[1]

Managerial career

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After retiring, he started working as a fitness coach at Coslada, subsequently having the same role at Internacional de Madrid, San Fernando and Getafe B.[1]

In 2007, López was included in Michael Laudrup's squad in Getafe's first team, again as a fitness coach.[1]

López followed Cosmin Contra to Getafe, Guangzhou R&F and Al Shabab Al Arabi Club Dubai, always as his assistant. In July 2017, he returned to Spain to work as Javier Casquero's assistant at Recreativo,[2] but was appointed manager in November after Casquero's dismissal.[3]

López was sacked by Recre on 11 February 2018,[4] and on 10 October, he took over the Equatorial Guinea national team manager role.[5] On 28 September 2019, he resigned from the Nzalang.[6]

On 27 December 2019, López was named at the helm of Ecuadorian club Delfín for the ensuing campaign.[7] He was dismissed after three league matches.[8]

In September 2020, he became manager of Greek club Volos.[9] On 20 April 2021, he was released with a mutual agreement from Volos.[10]

In May 2021, he moved to Atromitos.[11] He later managed Uzbekistan Super League club Surkhon Termez and Cypriot club Ethnikos Achna.[12]

In November 2023, he returned to Volos.[13]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Ángel López, el entrenador sin padrino que triunfa en Dubai" [Ángel López, the manager without a godfather who triumphs in Dubai] (in Spanish). El Confidencial. 15 March 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  2. ^ "Casquero: "Llevamos trabajando desde hace tiempo y el proyecto es ambicioso"" [Casquero: "We have been working for some time and the project is ambitious"] (in Spanish). Huelva 24. 13 July 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  3. ^ "Ángel López 'asciende' en el banquillo con la clara intención de que "se vea un Recre competitivo"" [Ángel López 'promotes' to the bench with the clear intention of "seeing a competitive Recre"] (in Spanish). Huelva Buenas Noticias. 3 November 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  4. ^ "Ángel López es destituido como técnico del primer equipo" [Ángel López is sacked as first team manager] (in Spanish). Recreativo Huelva. 11 February 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  5. ^ "Ángel López nuevo técnico del Nzalang Nacional" [Ángel López new manager of the national Nzalang] (in Spanish). Equatoguinean Football Federation. 10 October 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  6. ^ "Equatorial Guinea: Angel Lopez steps down as national coach". BBC Sport. 28 September 2019.
  7. ^ "El español Miguel Ángel López es el nuevo entrenador del Delfín SC" [The Spaniard Miguel Ángel López is the new manager of Delfín SC] (in Spanish). El Comercio. 27 December 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  8. ^ "Ángel López: Supliqué por favor quedarme en Delfín". El Universo (in Spanish). 4 March 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  9. ^ "Ángel López, nuevo entrenador del Volos de la Superliga griega". Marca.com. 3 September 2020.
  10. ^ "Τέλος κι επίσημα από τον Βόλο ο Λόπεθ" [Lopez has officially "ended" from Volos]. www.gazzetta.gr (in Greek). 20 April 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  11. ^ "OFICIAL: Atromitos, Ángel López nuevo entrenador - TODOmercadoWEB.es". www.todomercadoweb.es.
  12. ^ "Spain - Ángel López - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway". uk.soccerway.com.
  13. ^ "Ο Άνχελ Λόπεθ νέος προπονητής του Βόλου". 15 November 2023.
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