Albert Celades

Albert Celades
Celades with the New York Red Bulls in 2009
Personal information
Full name Albert Celades López
Date of birth (1975-09-29) 29 September 1975
Place of birth Barcelona, Spain
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position Defensive midfielder
Club information
Current team
 Real Madrid (assistant)
Youth career
1990–1994 Barcelona
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1994–1995 Barcelona B 14 (3)
1995–1999 Barcelona 72 (4)
1999–2000 Celta 24 (1)
2000–2005 Real Madrid 56 (1)
2003–2004 → Bordeaux (loan) 27 (3)
2005–2008 Zaragoza 71 (2)
2009 New York Red Bulls 17 (1)
2010 Kitchee 0 (0)
Total 281 (15)
National team
1991–1992 Spain U16 2 (0)
1992 Spain U17 3 (0)
1993–1994 Spain U18 8 (1)
1996–1998 Spain U21 8 (1)
1998–2000 Spain 4 (0)
1998–2005 Catalonia 7 (1)
Teams managed
2013–2017 Spain U16
2014–2018 Spain U21
2018– Real Madrid (assistant)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

Albert Celades López (born 29 September 1975) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a defensive midfielder, and is the assistant coach of Real Madrid.

A tactically astute player with a strong defensive mentality, he was best known for his stints with Barcelona and Real Madrid,[1] and he amassed La Liga total of 223 games and eight goals over the course of 12 seasons, winning ten major titles both clubs combined.

Celades appeared with the Spain national team at the 1998 World Cup.

Playing career

Club

Born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Celades —who left Barcelona at age seven with his family to live in Andorra—[2] was a product of FC Barcelona's youth system. He made his debuts with the main squad during 1995–96, and finished his first professional season with 16 games and two goals as the Catalans finished third in La Liga. Nevertheless, he would still spend another full campaign with the club's B-team.

Celades played in 36 matches in 1997–98, mostly as a sweeper,[3][4] as the Louis van Gaal-led team conquered the national title after a three-year drought. He also started both legs of the 1997 UEFA Super Cup, helping to a 3–1 aggregate victory over Borussia Dortmund, but appeared less significantly in the following season, with Barça renewing its domestic supremacy.

After a year with Celta de Vigo, Celades moved to Real Madrid, against which he had scored the winner (1–0) in the previous campaign, on 28 November 1999.[5] During four seasons he was used sparingly, but added two league trophies and the 2002 UEFA Champions League to his résumé. He also played 2003–04 on loan, to Ligue 1 side FC Girondins de Bordeaux.[6]

From 2005 to 2008, Celades represented Real Zaragoza.[7] In his first year he helped the club reach the Copa del Rey final, and would be relatively used during three seasons as the Aragonese were relegated at the end of 2007–08, and the player was released after his contract expired. In February 2009, he went on trial with the New York Red Bulls in the Major League Soccer[8] and, after impressing, signed in March.[9]

Celades retired from competitive football on 24 October 2009, immediately following the conclusion of the MLS season.[10] In early 2010, however, Kitchee SC from Hong Kong signed him alongside compatriot Agustín Aranzábal;[11] they both appeared with the team at the 2010 Lunar New Year Cup, a mid-season exhibition tournament.

International

Celades played four times for Spain, and was a participant at the 1998 FIFA World Cup with two substitute appearances against Nigeria[12] and Paraguay[13] in an eventual group stage exit. His debut was on 3 June of that year, in a 4–1 friendly win with Northern Ireland in Santander where he started and played the entire game.[14]

Celades' last match consisted of 30 minutes in a 2–1 away success over Bosnia and Herzegovina, for the 2002 World Cup qualifiers.

Coaching career

On 7 May 2014, after Julen Lopetegui left for FC Porto, Celades was named manager of the Spanish under-21s after leaving the under-16 team.[15][16][17] In October, the former lost their play-off against Serbia for entrance to the 2015 UEFA European Championship, in which they would have been defending champions; the 1–2 second leg loss in Cádiz was their first in 35 games.[18]

On 18 July 2018, Celades resigned from his position at the Royal Spanish Football Federation after five years managing the youth teams, also having acted as assistant to the full team during the 2014 and 2018 World Cups.[19] On 3 August he was appointed as assistant coach of Real Madrid, reuniting with Lopetegui after their period at the Spanish Federation.[20]

Honours

Club

Barcelona

Real Madrid

Zaragoza

Managerial statistics

As of 17 June 2017
Team From To Record
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Spain Spain U16[15] 2013 2017 7 3 2 2 17 16 +1 042.86
Spain Spain U21 2014 2018 23 14 6 3 52 19 +33 060.87
Career totals 30 17 8 5 69 35 +34 056.67

References

  1. ↑ Salad days for Celades; UEFA, 26 October 2004
  2. ↑ Media day with Albert Celades; Metro Fanatic, 16 March 2009
  3. ↑ La zaga sufre más, pero encaja menos (Back-four suffer more, but concede less); Mundo Deportivo, 23 January 1998 (in Spanish)
  4. ↑ "Me quedo" ("I'm staying"); Mundo Deportivo, 4 April 1998 (in Spanish)
  5. ↑ Celades tumba al Madrid (Celades downs Madrid); Mundo Deportivo, 29 November 1999 (in Spanish)
  6. ↑ Celades bound for Bordeaux; UEFA, 19 August 2003
  7. ↑ Celades to settle at Zaragoza; UEFA, 29 August 2005
  8. ↑ Celades among the Red Bulls new trialists; Soccer By Ives, 22 February 2009
  9. ↑ Celades jugará en los New York Red Bulls (Celades will play in New York Red Bulls); Marca, 11 March 2009 (in Spanish)
  10. ↑ Red Bulls MF Albert Celades to retire Saturday; USA Today, 23 October 2009
  11. ↑ Celades jugará con el Kitchee de Hong Kong (Celades will play with Hong Kong's Kitchee) Archived 4 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine.; Sport, 6 February 2010 (in Spanish)
  12. ↑ Long-suffering Spain stunned by Oliseh sizzler Archived 10 July 2012 at the Wayback Machine.; FIFA, 13 June 1998
  13. ↑ World Cup: Nigeria third to clinch second round Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine.; Soccer Times, 19 June 1998
  14. ↑ Abundante munición para Francia (Ammonition aplenty for France); El País, 4 June 1998 (in Spanish)
  15. 1 2 "Celades takes up Spain Under-21 reins". UEFA. 7 May 2014. Retrieved 20 June 2017.
  16. ↑ "Albert Celades, nuevo seleccionador sub-21" [Albert Celades, new under-21 manager] (in Spanish). El Confidencial. 7 May 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  17. ↑ "OFFICIAL: Albert Celades takes on the U21". Royal Spanish Football Federation. 7 May 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  18. ↑ "Holders Spain knocked out of European Under-21 Championship by Serbia". The Guardian. 14 October 2014. Retrieved 14 March 2016.
  19. ↑ "Albert Celades bids farewell to the RFEF". Royal Spanish Football Federation. 18 July 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  20. ↑ "Celades joins Real Madrid as Julen Lopetegui's assistant coach". Real Madrid C.F. 3 August 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
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