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Miguel Sola
Personal information
Full name	Miguel Ángel Sola Elizalde
Date of birth	29 September 1957 (age 67)
Place of birth	Pamplona, Spain
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
	Txantrea
1975–1976	Athletic Bilbao
Senior career*
Years	Team
1976–1980	Bilbao Athletic
1978–1979	→ Arosa (loan)
1980	→ Alavés (loan)
1980–1985	Athletic Bilbao
1985–1992	Osasuna
Total
Managerial career
1997	Osasuna
2001	Peña Sport
2002–2004	Real Unión
2005–2006	Huesca
2006–2008	Mirandés
2010–2011	Izarra
2011	Real Unión
2013–2014	Corellano
2017–2020	Calahorra
2023	Txantrea
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Miguel Ángel Sola Elizalde (born 29 September 1957) is a Spanish football manager and former player who played as a midfielder.

He amassed La Liga totals of 316 matches and 42 goals over 12 seasons, in representation of Athletic Bilbao and Osasuna.

In 1997, Sola started working as a coach.

Playing career

Born in Pamplona, Navarre, Sola joined Athletic Bilbao's youth system in 1975, spending his first seasons as a senior with Bilbao Athletic and on loan, the latter including a five-month spell with Basque neighbours Deportivo Alavés.^[1] In 1980, he returned as a full member of the main squad, going on to be an important unit during five years and totalling 57 La Liga games (nine goals) as the team won back-to-back national championships.^[2]

Sola was an unused substitute in the 1984 Copa del Rey final, which Athletic won by beating FC Barcelona 1–0. An on-field brawl involving players from both teams ensued at the conclusion of the match; during the melee, the tracksuited Sola was knocked to the turf by Diego Maradona, who then followed up by launching a jumping scissor knee at his jaw, rendering him unconscious.^[3]^[4]

After leaving the San Mamés Stadium with official totals of 177 matches and 24 goals,^[5] Sola moved to his hometown with CA Osasuna, appearing and scoring regularly for them in six of his seven seasons. In 1990–91, already aged 33, he made 26 appearances as the club finished in a best-ever fourth position, with the subsequent qualification for the UEFA Cup. He retired from the game at the end of the following campaign.^[6]^[7]

Coaching career

In 1997, with Osasuna in the Segunda División, Sola managed the team for eight matches, collecting five losses and only one win as they barely avoided relegation.^[8] In the following years, always in the lower leagues, he coached Peña Sport FC, Real Unión, SD Huesca and CD Mirandés.^[9]

On 24 March 2010, Sola returned to his native region and signed with CD Izarra, aiming to help the club avoid relegation from Segunda División B,^[10] which eventually did not happen. The next season, in the same tier, he was again in charge of Real Unión after replacing the fired Álvaro Cervera.^[11]

Sola was appointed at CD Calahorra of the Tercera División in June 2017.^[12] He won promotion at the end of his first season as champions,^[13] but was dismissed on 17 February 2020 due to poor results.^[14]

Managerial statistics

As of 16 February 2020

Managerial record by team and tenure
Team	Nat	From	To	Record								Ref
Team	Nat	From	To	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %	Ref
Osasuna		3 March 1997	5 May 1997	8	1	2	5	5	13	−8	012.50	^[15]
Peña Sport		26 January 2001	30 June 2001	16	4	7	5	20	21	−1	025.00	^[16]
Real Unión		1 July 2002	30 June 2004	91	42	20	29	127	93	+34	046.15	^[17]
Huesca		1 July 2005	30 June 2006	40	10	14	16	31	44	−13	025.00	^[18]
Mirandés		1 July 2006	30 June 2008	85	57	24	4	157	55	+102	067.06
Izarra		24 March 2010	2 January 2011	27	12	6	9	39	29	+10	044.44	^[19]
Real Unión		2 January 2011	15 June 2011	21	11	4	6	30	22	+8	052.38	^[20]
Corellano		19 September 2013	1 December 2014	49	13	9	27	50	75	−25	026.53	^[21]
Calahorra		28 June 2017	17 February 2020	111	57	30	24	213	102	+111	051.35	^[22]
Total				448	207	116	125	672	454	+218	046.21	—

Honours

Player

Athletic Bilbao

Manager

Mirandés

Tercera División: 2006–07, 2007–08

References

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^ ^a ^b Subirán, Jordi (2 May 2019). "Otro campeón vasco por partida doble" [Another back-to-back Basque champion]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 August 2019.
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^ Castillo, Irache (15 March 2023). "Miguel Sola, un técnico agradecido" [Miguel Sola, thankful manager]. Diario de Navarra (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 May 2023.
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^ "Álvaro Cervera deja el banquillo del Real Unión" [Álvaro Cervera leaves Real Unión bench]. Diario AS (in Spanish). 4 January 2011. Retrieved 7 August 2019.
^ "Miguel Sola nuevo entrenador del Club Deportivo Calahorra" [Miguel Sola new Club Deportivo Calahorra manager] (in Spanish). Medios Riojanos. 28 June 2017. Retrieved 5 November 2019.
^ Suso, Ramón (29 May 2018). "Miguel Sola triunfa al frente del Calahorra" [Miguel Sola makes it big at the helm of Calahorra]. Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 March 2020.
^ "Sola, destituido como técnico del CD Calahorra; Diego Martínez, nuevo entrenador" [Sola, dismissed as coach of CD Calahorra; Diego Martínez, new manager] (in Spanish). Cadena COPE. 18 February 2020. Retrieved 29 March 2020.
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