Quique Sánchez Flores

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Quique Flores
Personal information
Full name	Enrique Sánchez Flores
Date of birth	February 2, 1965 (1965-02-02) (age 44)
Place of birth	Madrid, Spain
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9+1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Right back
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1984–1994 1994–1996 1996–1997	Valencia CF Real Madrid Zaragoza	232 0(14) 063 00(2) 009 00(0)
National team
1984–1986 1987–1991	Spain U21 Spain	013 00(0) 015 00(0)
Teams managed
2004–2005 2005–2007 2008–2009	Getafe CF Valencia CF Benfica
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Enrique "Quique" Sánchez Flores (born 2 February 1965 in Madrid) is a Spanish football coach, and a former right defender.

Contents 1 Club career 2 International career 3 Coaching career 4 Honours 4.1 Player 4.2 Manager 5 Personal life 6 References 7 External links

[edit] Club career

During his playing career, Flores spent ten seasons with Valencia CF, starting in 1984–85. However, at first, he did not enjoy his time at the Estadio Mestalla as the club were relegated in his second season, and when they got back into the top division, finished 14th in 1987-98. However, from that point until 1994, the club never finished lower than 7th, with Flores as an everpresent fixture.

In 1994, the defender moved to Real Madrid where he would stay for two seasons and win the league title in the first season. Following his time in the capital, Flores had a brief spell with Real Zaragoza before turning his hand to coaching.

[edit] International career

Flores made 15 appearances for the Spanish national team, and was selected to the 1990 World Cup squad.

His debut came on September 23, 1987, in a 2–0 friendly win with Luxembourg, in Gijón.

[edit] Coaching career

Flores followed in the footsteps of one of his predecessors at Valencia, Rafael Benítez, by taking charge of the Real Madrid youth teams. After winning plaudits during his time there, he was approached about the manager's job at newly-promoted club Getafe CF, also in Madrid.

After an impressive 2004–05 season with Getafe, which managed to finish a respectable 13th place, Flores was given the opportunity to coach former club Valencia, succeeding Claudio Ranieri. In his first season, he guided the club to third place in La Liga, which qualified the club for the 2006–07 UEFA Champions League, where Valencia reached the quarter-finals, in which they were knocked out by Chelsea. In May 2007, the club guaranteed a top-four league finish, and consequently a place in the next Champions League.

On October 29, 2007, the Valencia board of directors fired Flores after a string of average results with poor performances.^[1]He was appointed as manager of Sport Lisboa e Benfica on May 24, 2008.^[2]

On 8 June 2009, Flores left Benfica through contractual termination, after a third place in the league and the domestic league cup.^[3]

[edit] Honours

[edit] Player

• Spanish League: 1994–95

[edit] Manager

• Portuguese League Cup: 2008–09

[edit] Personal life

Sánchez Flores is the nephew of Spanish Flamenco singer-dancer Lola Flores.^[4]

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• BDFutbol profile
• National team data (Spanish)
• International appearances, at RSSSF

Preceded by Josu Uribe	Getafe CF manager 2004-2005	Succeeded by Bernd Schuster
Preceded by Claudio Ranieri	Valencia CF manager 2005-2007	Succeeded by Ronald Koeman

v • d • e Spain squad – 1990 FIFA World Cup 1 Zubizarreta • 2 Chendo • 3 Jiménez • 4 Andrinúa • 5 Sanchís • 6 Martín Vázquez • 7 Pardeza • 8 Quique • 9 Butragueño • 10 Fernando • 11 Villarroya • 12 Alkorta • 13 Ablanedo • 14 Górriz • 15 Roberto • 16 Bakero • 17 Hierro • 18 Paz • 19 Salinas • 20 Manolo • 21 Míchel • 22 Ochotorena • Coach: Suárez

v • d • e Getafe CF – Managers Prado (1999–2000) · Hurtado (2000–01) · Barderas (2001–02) · Mel (2002–03) · Uribe (2003–04) · Flores (2004–05) · Schuster (2005–07) · Laudrup (2007–08) · Muñoz (2008–09) · Míchel (2009–)

v • d • e Valencia CF – Managers Fivebr (1923–28) · Herriot (1928–29) · Fivebr (1929–31) · Galloway (1931–33) · Greenwell (1933–34) · Fivebr (1934–35) · Balsa (1935–36) · Encinas (1939–42) · Rino (1942–43) · Cubells (1943–46) · Pasarín (1946–48) · Quincoces (1948–54) · Iturraspe (1954–56) · Miró (1956–58) · Quincoces (1958–59) · Bumbel (1959–60) · Balmanya (1960–62) · Scopelli (1962–63) · Pasieguito (1963–64) · Mundo (1964–65) · Barinaga (1965–66) · Mundo (1966–68) · Joseíto (1968–69) · Buque & Artigas (1969–70) · Di Stéfano (1970–74) · Ćirić (1974–75) · Milošević (1975) · Mestre (1975–76) · Herrera (1976–77) · Mestre (1987) · Domingo (1977–79) · Pasieguito (1979) · Di Stéfano (1979–80) · Pasieguito (1980–82) · Mestre (1982) · Miljanić (1982–83) · Koldo (1983) · Paquito (1983–84) · Gil (1984–85) · Valdez (1985–86) · Di Stéfano (1986–88) · Gil (1988) · Espárrago (1988–91) · Hiddink (1991–93) · Real (1993) · Núñez (1993–94) · Hiddink (1994) · Rielo (1994) · Parreira (1994–95) · Aragonés (1995–96) · Valdano (1996–97) · Rielo (1997) · Ranieri (1997–99) · Cúper (1999–2001) · Benítez (2001–04) · Ranieri (2004–05) · López Habas (2005) · Quique (2005–07) · Koeman (2007–08) · Voro (2008) · Emery (2008–)

v • d • e S.L. Benfica – Managers Gourlade (1904–08) · Damião (1908–26) · dos Reis (1926–29) · John (1929–31) · dos Reis (1931–34) · Gonçalves (1934–35) · Hertzka (1935–39) · Biri (1939–47) · Hertzka (1947–48) · Smith (1948–52) · Zozaya (1952–53) · dos Reis (1953–54) · Valdivieso (1954) · Glória (1954–59) · Guttmann (1959–62) · Riera (1962–63) · Czeizler (1963–64) · Schwartz (1964–65) · Guttmann (1965–66) · Riera (1966–67) · Cabrita (1967–68) · Glória (1968–70) · Hagan (1970–73) · Cabrita (1973–74) · Pavić (1974–75) · Wilson (1975–76) · Mortimore (1976–79) · Wilson (1979–80) · Baróti (1980–82) · Eriksson (1982–84) · Csernai| (1984–85) · Mortimore (1985–87) · Skovdahl (1987) · Toni (1987–89) · Eriksson (1989–92) · Ivić (1992) · Toni (1992–94) · Artur Jorge (1994–95) · Wilson (1995–96) · Autuori (1996–97) · Manuel José (1997) · Wilson (1997) · Souness (1997–99) · Heynckes (1999–00) · Mourinho (2000) · Toni (2000–02) · Ferreira (2002) · Camacho (2002–04) · Trapattoni (2004–05) · Koeman (2005–06) · Santos (2006–07) · Camacho (2007–08) · Chalana (2008) · Flores (2008–09) · Jesus (2009–)