Luis Blanco
Personal information
Full name Luis Blanco Garrido
Date of birth (1978-05-31) 31 May 1978 (age 45)
Place of birth Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Spain[1]
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Winger
Youth career
Gramenet
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1995–1998 Gramenet 25 (7)
1998–2001 Espanyol B 47 (5)
1999 Espanyol 0 (0)
2001–2003 Gramenet 31 (2)
2003–2010 Badalona 190 (20)
2010–2012 Sant Andreu 63 (6)
Total 356 (40)
Managerial career
2013–2014 Badalona (assistant)
2014–2017 Espanyol B (assistant)
2017–2021 Espanyol (youth)
2021–2023 Espanyol B
2022 Espanyol (interim)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Luis Blanco Garrido (born 31 May 1978) is a Spanish football manager and former player who played mainly as a right winger. He is a current manager.

Playing career

Born in Santa Coloma de Gramenet, Barcelona, Catalonia, Blanco was an UDA Gramenet youth graduate, and made his first team debut at the age of just 16 on 21 May 1995, coming on as a second-half substitute in a 1–1 Segunda División B home draw against Real Murcia. In the 1997–98 season, aged 19, he was already a regular starter for the side.

In 1998, Blanco moved to RCD Espanyol and was initially assigned to the reserves also in the third division. He made his first team debut on 17 July 1999, playing the last 17 minutes of a 0–2 home loss against Montpellier HSC, for the year's UEFA Intertoto Cup.[2]

In 2001, Blanco returned to Gramenet, but left the club in January 2003 after featuring rarely during the season, and joined Tercera División side CF Badalona. In May 2010, after one promotion to the third division in the 2003–04 campaign, he left.[3][4]

Blanco agreed to a deal with third division side UE Sant Andreu in July 2010,[5] He featured regularly with the side before retiring in 2012, aged 34.

Managerial career

On 11 June 2013, Blanco was named Piti Belmonte's assistant at his former side Badalona.[6] On 24 June 2014, he returned to another club he represented as a player, Espanyol, being appointed assistant of Lluís Planagumà at the B-team.[7]

In 2017, Blanco was named manager of Espanyol's Juvenil A side.[8] He was in charge of the Juvenil B team during the 2018–19 campaign before subsequently returning to the Juvenil A in 2019, and then taking over the B's on 24 March 2021, after José Aurelio Gay was sacked.[9]

On 13 May 2022, Blanco was named interim manager of the first team, after Vicente Moreno was sacked.[10] His first professional – and La Liga – match in charge of the Pericos occurred the following day, a 1–1 home draw against Valencia CF.[11]

Managerial statistics

As of 28 May 2023
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record Ref
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Espanyol B Spain 24 March 2021 12 June 2023 78 36 19 23 105 92 +13 046.15 [12]
Espanyol (interim) Spain 13 May 2022 31 May 2022 2 0 2 0 1 1 +0 000.00 [13]
Total 80 36 21 23 106 93 +13 045.00 —

References

  1. ^ www.rcdespanyol.com, RCD Espanyol-. "Fútbol Base | RCD Espanyol". www.rcdespanyol.com.
  2. ^ "Rendidos a un rival superior" [Surrendered to a superior opponent] (PDF) (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 18 July 1999. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  3. ^ "Blanco deixa el Badalona sense rancúnia" [Blanco leaves Badalona without grudges.] (in Catalan). El Punt Avui. 28 May 2010. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  4. ^ "Blanco, «víctima» de la renovació del Badalona" [Blanco, "victim" of Badalona's revamp] (in Catalan). El Punt Avui. 28 May 2010. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  5. ^ "El Sant Andreu ha fitxat Joel (Sabadell), Blanco (Badalona), Llobet (Pobla), Uri (Tenerife B) i Àlex (Ontinyent)" [Sant Andreu has signed Joel (Sabadell), Blanco (Badalona), Llobet (Pobla), Uri (Tenerife B) and Àlex (Ontinyent)] (in Catalan). L'Esportiu. 20 July 2010. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  6. ^ "Luis Blanco serà l'ajudant de Piti Belmonte" [Luis Blanco will be the assistant of Piti Belmonte] (in Catalan). Diari de Badalona. 11 June 2013. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  7. ^ "Luis Blanco se convierte en el segundo entrenador del Espanyol B" [Luis Blanco becomes the assistant manager of Espanyol B] (in Spanish). Vavel. 24 June 2014. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  8. ^ Sanz Marcos, Álvaro Jesús (13 November 2020). "Luis Blanco, a los mandos del RCD Espanyol" [Luis Blanco, at the helm of RCD Espanyol] (in Spanish). Juvenil División de Honor.
  9. ^ "Luis Blanco, nuevo entrenador del Espanyol B" [Luis Blanco, new manager of Espanyol B] (in Spanish). RCD Espanyol. 24 March 2021.
  10. ^ "Luis Blanco es el elegido" [Luis Blanco is the chosen one] (in Spanish). Diario AS. 13 May 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  11. ^ "Luis Blanco, sobre su debut en el Espanyol: "Me hubiera gustado ganar, pero ha sido muy especial"" [Luis Blanco, about his debut at Espanyol: "I would have liked to win, but it was very special"] (in Spanish). Hoy. 15 May 2022. Retrieved 1 June 2022.
  12. ^ "Luis Blanco: Luis Blanco Garrido: Matches 2020–21". BDFutbol. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
    "Luis Blanco: Luis Blanco Garrido: Matches 2021–22". BDFutbol. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
    "Luis Blanco: Luis Blanco Garrido: Matches 2022–23". BDFutbol. Retrieved 11 October 2023.
  13. ^ "Luis Blanco: Luis Blanco Garrido: Matches 2021–22". BDFutbol. Retrieved 11 October 2023.

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RCD Espanyol – managers
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