Manuel Perez Cascallana

Manuel Perez Cascallana (born 5 April 1988) is a Spanish former footballer, current Football manager, Sports scientist, Physical trainer and currently the assistant coach of Indian Super League club ATK[1].

Manuel Perez Cascallana
Personal information
Date of birth (1988-04-05) 5 April 1988
Place of birth Spain
Club information
Current team
 ATK (assistant coach)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2007–2010 Las Rozas
Teams managed
2007–2010 Las Rozas (youth coach)
2010–2011 West Ham united U-16 (assistant)
2011–2013 Rayo Majadahonda U14
2011–2014 Atlético Madrid Academy (Fitness coach)
2014–2015 CDE Olímpico Amistad Alcorcón
2015–2018 Atlético Madrid (International Project coach)
2019– ATK (assistant)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only

He is now working as an assistant coach of Antonio Lopez Habas in ATK, and he was in charge of manager at ATK when Habas was suspended[2]. He was worked as a sports scientist [3]and youth coach for teams in England and Spain.[4]

Coaching career

In September 2007 and combining it with the university, Cascallana was fortunate to be part of Las Rozas as coach of one of their Benjamines teams at the same time as acting as a player in the first team of the same club that was active in the Third Division of Spanish football. At his local club he spent three complete seasons, and in August 2010, and due to his transfer to the English capital due to his training as a student, he was part of the lower categories of West Ham United as assistant coach of the U-16 team.

After the West Ham career he returned to Madrid in 2011 to be part of the Atlético de Madrid Academy, this time as head of Physical Preparation in the Prebenjamin-Benjamin-Alevin categories. At the same time, he trained a children's team at Rayo Majadahonda, being able to see first-hand how he works in the Majariega youth academy, one of the benchmarks in Madrid and national soccer. In Majadahonda he spent two seasons as a coach while working as a physical trainer at Atlético Madrid. He had the maximum qualification to work as a coach and physical trainer and it was time to choose the path.

Then he decided to start his career As a coach in 2015 in a team of fans in the Community of Madrid, the CDE Olímpico Amistad Alcorcón. Undoubtedly a unique experience where we get the best historical classification of the club and a place to grow and mature as a coach and as a person surrounded by incredible human beings. In 2015 he returned to Atlético Madrid as a Wanda International project coach; there he worked as an individual and specific development of the Chinese soccer player, sports component of international projects, responsible for national (Las Palmas) and international (Japan) campuses and clinics, assistant international coaches in the visualization of the training of the first team and other sets of the academy as well as teaching of the planning and methodology given by the club and all its teams, and he stayed there to 2018.

In 2019 he appointed as the assistant coach of Indian Super League club ATK under Antonio López Habas[5]. When habas was suspended in some games he was taken the charge of the team[6].In 14 march 2020 ATK won Indian Super League final by beating (3-1) Chennaiyin fc he was also with them as assistant coach[7].

Honours
  • Assistant coah: ISL:2019-20[8]

References
  1. "ATK | Managements". atkfc.in. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  2. "Manuel Perez: More than just three points at stake in Goa match". Indian Super League. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  3. "Really want to see India in the top levels of Asia — ATK's assistant coach Manuel Perez Cascallana". The Bridge. 30 March 2020. Retrieved 20 April 2020.
  4. "Manuel Cascallana – Futbol Coach" (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 March 2020.
  5. "Indian Football: ATK signs Atletico Madrid's Sports Scientist". FootballSportek. 22 August 2019. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  6. "Manuel Perez: The win was a big step towards the semi-finals for us". Indian Super League. Retrieved 13 March 2020.
  7. GoaMarch 14, India Today Web Desk; March 14, 2020UPDATED; Ist, 2020 22:01. "ATK FC create history, beat Chennaiyin to lift ISL trophy 3rd time". India Today. Retrieved 14 March 2020.CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  8. "ATK best Chennaiyin in Hero ISL 2019-20 final to clinch record third title". Indian Super League. Retrieved 14 March 2020.
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