Jesús Gómez Cos (born 26 October 1968) is a Spanish

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and former player.

Playing career

Cos was born in

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in the

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of Camargo,

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, and began his career with Cantabrian

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side

Gimnástica de Torrelavega Real Sociedad Gimnástica de Torrelavega is a Spanish football team based in Torrelavega, in the autonomous community of Cantabria. Founded on 28 September 1907 it is the oldest football club in the region, and currently plays in , holding home ...

in 1988. After helping Gimnástica win their Tercera División group in 1989–90, he joined Laredo in the same division for the following season. He stepped up a tier to sign for

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in 1992. In his only season with the club, he scored sixteen goals thirty four matches. He went on to play for a succession of clubs in the third tier, spending two seasons with

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, one with Numancia and two with

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before joining newly promoted

Noja Noja is a municipality located in the autonomous community of Cantabria Cantabria (, ; ) is an autonomous community and Provinces of Spain, province in northern Spain with Santander, Cantabria, Santander as its capital city. It is called a ...

in 1998. Noja were relegated straight back to the Tercera División after just one season, and Cos stayed at the club until 2000. He added a second Tercera División group win in 1999–2000, before returning to Segunda División B with Tropezón. Tropezón were relegated that season, and Cos retired in 2001 at the age of 32.

Coaching career

After retiring, Cos became a coach at

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, managing the newly promoted

side from the start of the 2002–03 season. Palamós were owned at the time by

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, who went on to buy a 24% stake of

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club

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in January 2003. Piterman immediately decided to replace Santander coach

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, bringing in Cos in his place. Santander avoided relegation that season, but Cos was replaced by

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before the 2003–04 campaign. Piterman's next investment was to buy a 51% stake in

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side

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in July 2004, and he again immediately appointed Cos as manager. Cos guided Alavés to promotion in his first season in charge, and remained as manager for the first 18 matches of the 2005–06 La Liga campaign. In January, Piterman made Cos

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, and appointed

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as the new manager. Oliva was fired after just five games for insubordination, with Mario Luna taking over until the end of the season, when Alavés were relegated. Alavés began the following season with yet another manager,

Julio Bañuelos Julio Bañuelos (born 7 December 1970) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a defender, He has managed clubs including Alavés and Burgos. He was a graduate of the Barcelona academy. He was head coach at Persebaya Surabaya and an ass ...

, but he too was sacked just two games into the campaign,Dimite el técnico del Alavés, Julio Bañuelos (Sacked the manager of Alavés, Julio Bañuelos)
El Mundo, 6 September 2006 with Cos then reappointed as manager. After six wins from seventeen matches, Cos was also fired in January 2007. Alavés went on to have six different managers that season, with

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, José Garmendia, Mario Luna and Quique Yagüe all coaching the team at some stage.

Career statistics

Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

Gimnástica de Torrelavega *

: 1989–90 Noja *

: 1999–2000

References

External links

* * * {{DEFAULTSORT:Cos, Chuchi 1968 births Living people People from Camargo, Cantabria Footballers from Cantabria Spanish men's footballers Men's association football forwards Segunda División B players Tercera División players Gimnástica de Torrelavega footballers Barakaldo CF footballers Xerez CD footballers CD Numancia players Pontevedra CF footballers CD Tropezón players Spanish football managers La Liga managers Segunda División managers Segunda División B managers Palamós CF managers Racing de Santander managers Deportivo Alavés managers 20th-century Spanish sportsmen