Nando Yosu

Nando Yosu
Personal information
Full nameFernando Trío Zabala
Date of birth8 July 1940
Place of birthMungia, Spain
Height1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Playing positionMidfielder
Youth career
Nueva Montaña
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1958–1962Racing Santander100(23)
1959–1960Rayo Cantabria (loan)
1962–1964Valencia8(1)
1963–1964Racing Santander (loan)28(1)
1964–1966Athletic Bilbao30(0)
1966–1969Pontevedra28(0)
1969–1971Calvo Sotelo46(5)
1971–1972Gimnástica
Teams managed
1971–1972Gimnástica
1973–1975Gimnástica
1977–1979Racing Santander
1979–1981Oviedo
1982–1984Linares
1984Granada
1985–1986Alavés
1988–1989Alzira
1990Orihuela Deportiva
1992Ponferradina
1992–1994Granada
1996Racing Santander
1998–1999Racing Santander
2005Racing Santander
2006Racing Santander
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Fernando Trío Zabala, known as Nando Yosu (born 8 July 1940), is a Spanish retired football midfielder and manager.

His extensive career, as both a player and coach, was mainly associated to Racing de Santander.

Playing career

Born in Mungia, Basque Country, Yosu played professionally during roughly one decade, appearing in 122 matches in La Liga where he represented Racing de Santander, Valencia CF, Athletic Bilbao and Pontevedra CF, retiring in 1972 at only 31 after spells with CF Calvo Sotelo in Segunda División and lowly Gimnástica de Torrelavega from Tercera División.

In his beginnings Yosu was also loaned by Racing to Deportivo Rayo Cantabria, at the time acting as a feeder team. Whilst with the Che he was used rarely in the league – also being loaned to Santander – but scored twice against FC Barcelona in the 1961–62 Inter-Cities Fairs Cup final, a 6–2 home win (7–3 on aggregate).[1]

Manager career

Immediately after retiring Yosu began coaching at his last team Gimnástica, even though he did not possess the obligatory licence. Afterwards he returned to main club Racing, starting with its youth teams.

From 1977 to 1979 Yosu served as head manager for Santander, but would work with the club in several other capacities, from match delegate to director of football.[2] Additionally, in no fewer than five occasions, as an interim manager in the 90's/2000's, he successfully led the side away from relegation zone, always in the top level.[3][4][5]

In March 2007, Yosu was honoured by the Government of Cantabria for his contribution to football in the area.[6] He retired from the football world for good in January 2009, after leaving his post as Racing's director of football.

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Player

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