José Riga
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | José Riga | ||
| Date of birth | 30 July 1957 | ||
| Place of birth | Liège, Belgium | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Cercle Brugge (manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1974–1985 | C.S. Visé | ||
| 1985–1989 | JS Haccourt | ||
| Teams managed | |||
| 1991–1996 | JS Haccourt | ||
| 1996–2000 | Espanola Liège | ||
| 2000–2002 | C.S. Visé | ||
| 2002–2003 | Sprimont Comblain Sport | ||
| 2005–2008 | R.A.E.C. Mons | ||
| 2011–2012 | Standard Liège | ||
| 2014 | Charlton Athletic | ||
| 2014 | Blackpool | ||
| 2015 | Standard Liège | ||
| 2015 | Metz | ||
| 2016 | Charlton Athletic | ||
| 2016– | Cercle Brugge | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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José Riga (born 30 July 1957) is a Belgian former football player and current manager of Cercle Brugge in the Belgian First Division B.
In June 2012, he went to Qatar and joined the Aspire Academy (training centre). He gave his resignation at the beginning of 2013.
In October 2013, he signed a contract with the Italian club AC Milan and joined the youth teams’ technical staff. Together with Michel Bruyninckx, José Riga has been committed to improving the training concepts for the players, in particular with his CogiTraining method.
Today, José Riga keeps collaborating with the CogiTraining / SenseBall team in particular in order to implement the CogiTraining method in the specific competitive environment of a professional first team.
Riga was appointed as manager of Charlton Athletic on 11 March 2014, one day after the sacking of their previous manager, Chris Powell, who had been dismissed when the club owner and Powell were unable to reach agreement over the long-term vision for the club. At the time Charlton were fourth from bottom of The Championship. Riga was appointed the manager with a contract which lasted until the end of the 2013–14 season; the main task was to secure Championship football for Charlton. This was achieved on 29 April 2014 following a 3-1 home win against Watford.
On 3 June 2014 it was reported that Riga had agreed to a deal to become manager of Blackpool, and was set to start the following week. The following day, Blackpool chairman Karl Oyston confirmed that there was a verbal agreement in place. On 11 June Riga was confirmed as Blackpool's new manager. Three weeks later, newspaper reports claimed that Riga was unsettled and ready to quit Blackpool. Whilst the club and Riga did not comment, no coaching staff had been appointed and even though the club had just seven contracted players, no signings had been made. With so few players, no assistant or backroom staff appointed, and the squad due to report back on 30 June, Riga had to delay the start of pre-season training.
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