Óscar García Junyent

Óscar García Junyent (born 26 April 1973 in Sabadell), short Óscar, is a Spanish football manager and former player. As an offensive player, he acted mostly as an attacking midfielder or as a second striker.

Playing career

Oscar is a product of the football academy of FC Barcelona. His first league game for Barca he played in the 4-1 win over FC Cadiz on May 9, 1993. In his first two years in the first team of FC Barcelona between 1992 and 1994, he completed five league games, including four in the starting XI.

For the 1994/95 season he was loaned to Spanish side Albacete Balompié, where he also won a regular place equal. In the 1995/96 season he was with 10 league goals the best scorer of FC Barcelona, even though he was only 11 times was from the beginning in 28 league inserts are used.

The number of his assignments was reduced in the following years in which Barcelona won the Spanish Cup and the Spanish Cup twice, depending what Óscar prompting to switch to Valencia in 1999. With Valencia he reached the final of the Champions League in the season 1999/ 00. Óscar had to witness from the substitutes' bench of how his team Real Madrid defeated with 0:3.

Even after this one season Óscar returned to Barcelona, but this time he joined Espanyol Barcelona. In his four years at Espanyol did not Óscar about the status of the Joker out. At this station, he played with his brother Roger. Overall, he played for Espanyol 51 League Appearances ( 19 of them from the start ) and scored four goals.

After the 2004/05 season, in which he played for the Spanish second division side UE Lleida, he ended his career at the age of 32 years.

In 1996 he participated in the Spanish Olympic team at the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta. There he met two times in four games. Between 1993 and 1998 he also played two games for the Catalan football team.

Coaching career

Since the season 2010/11 Óscar coaching youth teams of FC Barcelona. In his first season he led the youth team to win the league, the Copa del Rey Copa de Campeones and the. At the end of the second season, he left the Catalan club and took over the coaching job with the Israeli first division team Hapoel Tel Aviv. For the 2013/14 season he had to vacate despite the achieved championship title for Paulo Sousa this post. Since June 26, 2013, is the coach of the English second division Brighton & Hove Albion. Junyent received a two - year contract until 30 June 2015.

Achievements

• Spanish Cup: 1993, 1994, 1998, 1999
• Spanish Cup: 1997, 1998
• Spanish Super Cup: 1996, 1999
• European Cup Winners' Cup: 1997
• UEFA Super Cup: 1993, 1998
• Participation in the 1996 Summer Olympics in Atlanta

• Israeli champion: 2012/13

Others

Oscars brothers, Roger and Genís, were also professional football players. All played in their youth at FC Barcelona, but only Oscar and Roger were capable in the first team to ascend.