Ivan Piñol Zoroa (born 12 February 1982) is a Spanish football coach who is serving as the head coach Finnish club

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Career

Piñol started coaching in the youth academy of

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in 2010. During the 2014–15 season, he worked in the academy of

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club

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. In August 2016, he started as an assistant coach of

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, in a coaching staff of Gerard Nus. In December 2017, he followed Nus to Kazakh side

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. After a brief stint with

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club

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, Piñol moved to Finland and joined

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organisation. He worked as a head coach of the club's reserve team KuFu-98 and an assistant coach of KuPS first team under manager

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in Finnish

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. In February 2022, he left KuPS for Hammarby. In November 2023, he joined the coaching staff of

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, but due to personal family reasons, he was forced to leave the club in June. In January 2025, Piñol was named the head coach of

club

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Managerial statistics

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Piñol, Ivan 1982 births Living people Association football coaches Spanish expatriate football managers Spanish football managers Spanish football coaches Spanish expatriate sportspeople in South Africa Spanish expatriate sportspeople in India Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Finland Spanish expatriate sportspeople in the United States Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Kazakhstan Spanish expatriate sportspeople in Sweden Expatriate football managers in Finland Turun Palloseura managers Kuopion Palloseura non-playing staff Hammarby Fotboll non-playing staff