Iñaki Sáez
José Ignacio Sáez Ruiz called Iñaki Sáez ( born April 23 1943 in Bilbao ) is a former Spanish football player and coach, who among other things several times supervised Athletic Bilbao and the Spanish national football team in his coaching career. As a player of Basque for San Vicente, FC Athletic Bilbao Barakaldo and was active.
- 3.1 As a player
- 3.2 As a coach
Playing career
With already 15 years Iñaki Sáez debuted in the first team of the club unterklassigen San Vicente, whom he left three years later in the summer of 1961 in the FC Barakaldo. After a year as a regular player for the young Basque club Athletic Bilbao went great tradition for which he played of twelve years, from 1962 to 1974. In his time at Athletic he was even international, but only came three bets in 1968. Too, he took his team two Spanish Cup titles (1969 and 1973).
Coaching career
Athletic Bilbao
Immediately after the end of his active career was Iñaki Sáez 1975 in the youth work of Athletic Bilbao, where he spent five years coached various teams. For the 1980/81 season he first got the opportunity to coach the first team of the Basques to 1986 before he became the second team in 1982. In the 1985/86 season he replaced for a short time Javier Clemente as coach of the first team. Then made Iñaki Sáez two years break before three years he returned in 1988 to the Bank of Athletic 's B - team. From 1990 to 1992 he was again before the first team.
Other clubs
In the summer of 1992 Iñaki Sáez put an end to his time as coach of Bilbao. For the first time, he became coach of the club and hired the División to the Segunda B relegated UD Las Palmas. There he worked for three years successfully but missed the return to professional football. For this reason he got the chance in 1995 to train the Spanish first division side Albacete Balompie, but increased with the team as the second last end of the season off to a 0:2 - away defeat at Atletico Madrid.
National
In summer 1996, Iñaki Sáez took over the Spanish U-21 national team, which he supervised until 2002 for six years. With this he was able to win the 1998 Junior World Cup. After the Football World Cup 2002 in Japan and South Korea he took office as a Spanish national coach Jose Antonio Camacho resigned from, but had to after the 2004 European Football Championship after leaving in the first round to leave his post for Luis Aragonés.