Arsenio Iglesias

Arsenio Iglesias Pardo ( born December 24, 1930 in Arteixo, A Coruna Province ) is a former Spanish football player and active coach.

Career as a player

The youngest of nine brothers of a farming family, he started his football career in 1951 with Deportivo La Coruña in La Liga with a game against FC Barcelona, with whom he also prompt a goal shot, for which he apologized to the former goalkeeping legend Antoni Ramallets. From 1951 to 1957 he was part of the so-called Decada de oro ( golden decade) the team from A Coruña and was viewers under the nickname o mago de Arteixo ( The Wizard of Arteixo ) and o zorro de Arteixo ( the fox of Arteixo ) a term. 1957 brought him the then coach of CF Sevilla, Helenio Herrera, in the Andalusian capital. However, after only a year, he left the CF and Sevilla still played eight more years, until he finally in 1966 Albacete Balompié football boots hung on a nail.

Career as a coach

In 1967 he started his coaching career at the 2nd team of Deportivo La Coruña. In 1970, he became coach of the first team of Deportivo La Coruna after the club's management had canceled the contract with Roque Olsen. He managed at first promotion to the Primera División. The same should it also had in 1978 with Real Zaragoza in 1991 and succeed with Deportivo La Coruna, after the team División for 18 years in the Segunda, Segunda División B and Tercera División spent. From the 1992/93 season his greatest success coach with the team, which was commonly known as Super Depor and consisted of players like Bebeto, Mauro Silva, Miroslav Đukić and Fran should start. Twice he was runner-up ( 1993/94 and 1994/ 95) and won the 1995 Copa del Rey, the first proper title for Deportivo La Coruña. In the year of winning the title, he finished his coaching career at Deportivo La Coruna, but returned in 1996 as a coach back to club football back and replaced at Real Madrid in the mid-season Jorge Valdano dismissed until the end of the season. In 2005, he and Fernando Vázquez took over the coaching job at the Galician football selection.

Success as a coach

• Spanish Cup winner: 1995