Jordi Roura

Jordi Roura, December 2012

Jordi Roura i Solà ( born September 10, 1967 in Llagostera, Girona Province ) is a former Spanish footballer and current coach.

Career

Roura played since 1982 in the youth of the FC Barcelona and debuted in the 1984/85 season División for the B- team of the club in the Spanish Segunda. On September 11, 1989 he played his first Primera División - game for the first team in a 3-0 win against FC Elche. As a result of the UEFA Super Cup in 1989 suffered serious knee injury, the breakthrough team regular but it was denied. With Barcelona he played between 1989 and 1991 a total of ten top-flight, winning once each the European Cup Winners' Cup, the Spanish Cup and the Spanish Cup.

In 1991 he left Barça in the Real Murcia. At the end of his first season in Murcia, the descent into the third Spanish league and Roura followed joined UE Figueres. There, too, he got into his first season from the third Spanish league. Then he moved to UE Sant Andreu and finished there in 1994 at the age of almost 27 years of his career.

The late 1990s he assisted Carles Rexach at the Yokohama wing and Jordi Vinyals in Terrassa FC. For the 2007 /08 season he coached the Spanish third division Hospitalet CE l', but was dismissed in December 2007. The team got off at the end of the season. From 2009 he was responsible for the analysis of the counterparty of FC Barcelona in the coaching staff of FC Barcelona. Three years later he was promoted to assistant coach of the new head coach Tito Vilanova. After Vilanova was diagnosed with parotid gland cancer in December 2012 and was operated on, he took his place by April 2013.

Achievements

• European Cup Winners' Cup (1): 1988/89
• Primera Division (1): 1990/91
• Copa del Rey (1): 1989/90