Pepe Carcelén

Pepe Carcelén
Personal information
Full name José Ródenas Carcelén
Date of birth (1955-04-29) 29 April 1955 (age 69)
Place of birth Albacete, Spain
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Albacete
1979–1980 Alicante
Albacete
Managerial career
1988–1989 Albacete
1994–1996 Espanyol (assistant)
1996–1997 Espanyol
1998–2002 Spain (assistant)
2002–2004 Benfica (assistant)
2004–2005 Real Madrid (assistant)
2007–2008 Benfica (assistant)
2009–2011 Osasuna (assistant)
2012–2013 China (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

José Ródenas Carcelén (born 29 April 1955) is a Spanish retired goalkeeper[1] who later worked as a manager.[2] As a player, he represented his hometown club, Albacete Balompié,[1] and later began his managerial career with them in 1988.[2] He spent two decades working as assistant manager to José Antonio Camacho, including spells with Espanyol (who Carcelén also managed in his own right),[3] Benfica, Real Madrid and the national teams of Spain and China.

Playing career

Carcelén was born in Albacete, the capital of the province of the same name in the autonomous community of Castilla–La Mancha, and played as a goalkeeper for Albacete Balompié. He was part of the team which won their Tercera División group and earned promotion to Segunda División B in 1981–82, and also played a key role as they won the Copa de la Liga Segunda División B in 1983. He left the club after making four appearances during the 1983–84 season.[1]

Coaching career

Carcelén was appointed as Albacete's manager ahead of the 1988–89 season,[2] leading them to 12th place in Segunda División B.[4] He left the club at the end of the season, being replaced by Julián Rubio. In 1994, he took up the position of assistant manager at La Liga side Español, working under José Antonio Camacho. At the start of the 1996–97 season, Camacho left to take over at Sevilla,[5] and Carcelén was appointed in his place.[6]

Espanyol were eliminated from the UEFA Cup by Dutch side Feyenoord on 29 October,[7] and a 1–0 away loss to Logroñés at Estadio Las Gaunas on 12 January left them 16th in the table after 19 matches, only one point clear of the relegation places.[8] Carcelén left the club,[6] and was replaced by Vicente Miera. Miera lasted only nine matches, and was himself replaced by Paco Flores before the end of the season.[9]

Carcelén was reunited with Camacho in September 1998, when the latter was appointed as head coach of the Spanish national team. The pair led the team to UEFA Euro 2000 and the 2002 FIFA World Cup, resigning after losing to South Korea in the quarterfinals of the latter tournament. They then moved abroad, with Camacho taking over at Portuguese club Benfica in December after the sacking of Jesualdo Ferreira.[10] They spent two years at the club, winning the Taça de Portugal and finishing as Primeira Liga runners-up in 2003–04.[11]

Camacho then resigned[11] to take over at Real Madrid, replacing the sacked Carlos Queiroz,[12] and Carcelén followed. After leaving Real the following year, the pair returned to Benfica in August 2007, with Camacho replacing Fernando Santos as manager.[13] However, they resigned in March after a humiliating home draw with U.D. Leiria.[14]

Carcelén joined up with Camacho once again in 2009 at Osasuna, with the pair ultimately being fired in February 2011 after a 1–0 away loss to Real Sociedad which left the club in the La Liga relegation zone.[15] The pair returned to international management in August 2011 when Camacho took over as head coach of China,[16] with this spell also ending in dismissal, after a shock 5–1 friendly defeat at the hands of Thailand in June 2013.[17]

Honours

Player

Albacete Balompié

Career statistics

As a player

As of 3 June 2021[1]
Club Season League Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Albacete Balompié 1982–83 Segunda División B 0 0 6[1] 0 6 0
1983–84 4 0 0 0 4 0
Total 4 0 6 0 10 0
1.^ Appearances in the 1983 Copa de la Liga Segunda División B

As a manager

As of 6 June 2021[3]
Managerial record by team and tenure
Team Nat From To Record Ref
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
Albacete Balompié Spain 1988 1989 39 11 14 14 47 48 −1 028.21 [4]
Espanyol Spain 2 September 1996 12 January 1997 24 8 5 11 29 34 −5 033.33 [6]
Career Total 63 19 19 25 76 82 −6 030.16 —

References

  1. ^ a b c d "Carcelén". BDFutbol. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  2. ^ a b c "Pepe Carcelén". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  3. ^ a b "Carcelén". BDFutbol. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  4. ^ a b "Classification 2nd Division B Group IV 1988-89". BDFutbol. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  5. ^ "Camacho: José Antonio Camacho Alfaro: Matches 1996–97". BDFutbol. 14 February 2020. Retrieved 14 February 2020.
  6. ^ a b c "Matches Carcelén". BDFutbol. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Feyenoord-Espanyol 1996 History". UEFA Europa League. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  8. ^ "Classification First Division 1996-97". BDFutbol. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  9. ^ "Squad of Espanyol 1996-97 First Division". BDFutbol. Retrieved 3 June 2021.
  10. ^ "Benfica resistiu mais de uma década até à saída de Rui Vitória" [Benfica held their own for more than one decade until departure of Rui Vitória] (in Portuguese). O Jogo. 3 January 2019. Retrieved 11 October 2019.
  11. ^ a b "Spaniard Camacho quits as Benfica coach". ESPN Soccernet. 10 March 2008. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  12. ^ "Camacho elegido, Queiroz cesado" [Camacho chosen, Queiroz sacked] (in Spanish). Cadena SER. 24 May 2004. Retrieved 16 June 2016.
  13. ^ Benfica bring Camacho back; UEFA, 21 August 2007
  14. ^ Camacho hands in Benfica notice; UEFA, 9 March 2008
  15. ^ "Osasuna sack Camacho". ESPN Soccernet. 14 February 2011. Archived from the original on 28 June 2011. Retrieved 14 February 2011.
  16. ^ Camacho to be new coach of China national football team Archived 25 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine; China Times, 9 August 2011
  17. ^ China part ways with Camacho Archived 28 December 2013 at the Wayback Machine; China National News, 24 June 2013