Luis Enrique Martínez García
Luis Enrique managing Barcelona in 2015
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| Full name | Luis Enrique Martínez García | ||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 8 May 1970 | ||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Gijón, Spain | ||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfielder / Forward | ||||||||||||||
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Current team
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Barcelona (manager) | ||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||
| 1981–1988 | Sporting Gijón | ||||||||||||||
| 1984–1988 | → La Braña (loan) | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
| 1988–1990 | Sporting B | ||||||||||||||
| 1989–1991 | Sporting Gijón | 36 | (14) | ||||||||||||
| 1991–1996 | Real Madrid | 157 | (15) | ||||||||||||
| 1996–2004 | Barcelona | 207 | (73) | ||||||||||||
| Total | 400 | (102) | |||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||
| 1990–1991 | Spain U21 | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| 1991–1992 | Spain U23 | 14 | (3) | ||||||||||||
| 1991–2002 | Spain | 62 | (12) | ||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | Asturias | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||
| Teams managed | |||||||||||||||
| 2008–2011 | Barcelona B | ||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Roma | ||||||||||||||
| 2013–2014 | Celta | ||||||||||||||
| 2014– | Barcelona | ||||||||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
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Luis Enrique Martínez García (Spanish pronunciation: [lwis enˈrike]; born 8 May 1970), known as Luis Enrique, is a Spanish former professional footballer, and the current manager of FC Barcelona.
A versatile player, with good technique, he was capable of playing in several different positions, but usually played as a midfielder or as a forward, and was also noted for his temperament and stamina. Starting in 1991 and ending in 2004, he represented both Real Madrid and Barcelona with equal individual and team success, appearing in more than 500 official games and scoring more than 100 goals. He appeared with the Spanish national team in three World Cups and one European Championship.
Luis Enrique started working as a manager in 2008 with Barcelona B and, three years later, moved to Roma. In the 2013–14 season he managed Celta, before returning to Barcelona and winning the treble in his first year and the double in his second.
Luis Enrique was born in Gijón, Asturias, and began his career with local Sporting de Gijón, where he gained the nickname Lucho after Luis Flores, a Mexican forward in the team. He then spent most of his playing days with the two biggest Spanish clubs: first Real Madrid for five seasons and, in 1996, after seeing out his contract, he moved to fierce rivals FC Barcelona on a free transfer. The Catalans' supporters were at first hesitant about their new acquisition, but he soon won the culers' hearts, staying eight years with the club, eventually becoming team captain and scoring several times in El Clásico against his former employers; while with Real Madrid, he notably scored in a 5–0 home win against Barcelona, but stated later he "rarely felt appreciated by the Real Madrid supporters and didn't have good memories there".
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