Gaizka Garitano
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Gaizka Garitano Aguirre | ||
| Date of birth | 9 July 1975 | ||
| Place of birth | Bilbao, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.84 m (6 ft 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
Current team | Eibar (coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Athletic Bilbao | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 1993–1999 | Bilbao Athletic | 112 | (24) |
| 1996–1997 | → Lleida (loan) | 14 | (0) |
| 1998–1999 | → Eibar (loan) | 18 | (1) |
| 1999–2001 | Ourense | 70 | (8) |
| 2001–2005 | Eibar | 146 | (15) |
| 2005–2008 | Real Sociedad | 81 | (9) |
| 2008–2009 | Alavés | 29 | (2) |
| Total | 470 | (59) | |
| Teams managed | |||
| 2009–2010 | Eibar (assistant) | ||
| 2010–2012 | Eibar B | ||
| 2012– | Eibar | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). | |||
Gaizka Garitano Aguirre (born 9 July 1975) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a midfielder, and the current manager of SD Eibar.
Over the course of 11 seasons he amassed Segunda División totals of 315 games and 37 goals, mainly with Bilbao Athletic and Eibar. In La Liga he represented Real Sociedad, during the 2005–06 and 2006–07 seasons.
In 2009 Garitano entered coaching with Eibar, and became the first team coach in 2012. He won consecutive promotions in his first two seasons, and reached the top division with the club in 2014.
Playing career
Garitano was born in Bilbao, Basque Country. Grown through the ranks of Athletic Bilbao the nephew of another famed club midfielder, Ander Garitano,[1] would however never make it past the reserves, also serving loans with modest clubs. In 1999, he joined Segunda División B team CD Ourense.
Garitano finally settled at SD Eibar in Segunda División – his second spell – and, in the 2004–05 season, as club captain, led the side to a fourth place in the league, with chances of an historical La Liga promotion until the last matchday.[2]
Incidentally, Garitano would make his first top flight appearances with Real Sociedad,[3][4] his debut coming on 27 August 2005 in a 0–3 away derby loss (he was already aged 30).[5] After three seasons as an important first-team member he joined neighbours Deportivo Alavés, retiring in June 2009 at 34 after the club's relegation into the third division.[6]
Managerial career
Immediately after hanging up his boots, having appeared in more than 300 matches in Spain's second level, Garitano moved into coaching, serving as assistant at also freshly relegated Eibar. He was appointed first-team manager for the 2012–13 campaign,[7] which ended in promotion.[8]
Garitano repeated the feat the following season, leading Eibar to the first position and the subsequent top flight promotion, a first ever for the club. In June 2014, he renewed his contract.[9]
References
- ↑ El sobrino de Ander es el capitán del mejor Éibar (Ander's nephew captains best Éibar); Diario AS, 12 April 2005 (Spanish)
- ↑ Un 'milagro' llamado Eibar (A 'miracle' called Eibar); El Mundo Deportivo, 19 June 2005 (Spanish)
- ↑ Garitano, primer fichaje (Garitano, first signing); El Mundo Deportivo, 21 June 2005 (Spanish)
- ↑ La Real ya llora en plata (Real already cries in silver); Diario AS, 18 June 2007 (Spanish)
- ↑ El Athletic arranca comiéndose a la Real (Athletic starts by eating Real up); Marca, 27 August 2005 (Spanish)
- ↑ Gaizka Garitano negocia ser el segundo entrenador del Eibar con Viadero (Gaizka Garitano negotiates being Eibar's assistant manager with Viadero); Diario Vasco, 3 July 2009 (Spanish)
- ↑ Gaizka Garitano, nuevo entrenador del Eibar (Gaizka Garitano, new Eibar manager); Diario Vasco, 6 June 2012 (Spanish)
- ↑ El Eibar vuelve a Segunda cuatro años después (Eibar returns to Segunda four years later); Marca, 30 June 2013 (Spanish)
- ↑ Chesters, Heath (21 June 2014). "Consecutive promotions earns manager Garitano a new deal at Eibar". Inside Spanish Football. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
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| Awards and achievements | ||
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| Preceded by Fran Escribá |
Miguel Muñoz Trophy Segunda División 2013–14 |
Succeeded by Incumbent |