Personal information | |||
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Full name | Antonio López Habas | ||
Date of birth | 28 May 1957 | ||
Place of birth | Pozoblanco, Spain | ||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
Playing position | Defender | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Pune City (coach) | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1976–1977 | Pozoblanco | ||
1977–1978 | Sevilla B | ||
1978–1980 | Sevilla | 8 | (0) |
1980–1982 | Burgos | 45 | (14) |
1982–1985 | Murcia | 74 | (11) |
1985–1986 | Atlético Madrid | 0 | (0) |
Teams managed | |||
1990–1991 | Atlético Madrileño | ||
1991–1992 | Las Rozas | ||
1992–1993 | Aranjuez | ||
1993–1994 | Bolivia (assistant) | ||
1994–1995 | Bolívar | ||
1995–1996 | Lleida | ||
1995–1997 | Bolivia | ||
1998 | Sporting Gijón | ||
2000–2001 | Bolívar | ||
2001 | Granada | ||
2005 | Valencia | ||
2005 | Tenerife | ||
2007–2008 | Celta (assistant) | ||
2008 | Celta | ||
2010–2011 | Mamelodi Sundowns | ||
2012–2013 | Wits University | ||
2014–2016 | Atlético Kolkata | ||
2016– | Pune City | ||
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Antonio López Habas (born 28 May 1957) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a defender, and the current coach of Indian club FC Pune City.
Born in Pozoblanco, Córdoba, López had an unassuming career as a professional footballer, appearing in 48 La Liga matches over the course of four seasons, eight of those for Sevilla FC to where he arrived in 1977 from local amateurs CD Pozoblanco, first being assigned to Sevilla Atlético.
He also represented Real Murcia, Burgos CF and Atlético Madrid (no appearances for the latter), retiring from the game at only 29 years of age. In 1981–82 he scored an astonishing 13 goals in 32 games for Burgos, which nonetheless suffered Segunda División relegation due to financial irregularities.
López started coaching in the early 1990s, with his last club's reserves. After one season apiece in amateur football, also in the Madrid area, he took charge of the Bolivia national team, first as an assistant, and eventually appeared with it, as head coach, at two Copa América tournaments. He then returned to club action with Club Bolívar, followed by a spell in his homeland with UE Lleida, in the second division – whilst at the Catalan club, he briefly accumulated with his work as the national coach of the South American country, which he left for good in 1997.