Luis García Tevenet (born 8 May 1974) is a Spanish former

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who played as a

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, currently assistant

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. In a 16-year professional career, spent mainly with

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, he appeared in 359 matches across the two major divisions of Spanish football, scoring 69 goals. In

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, he totalled 141 games and 17 goals over seven seasons. As a manager, Tevenet worked mainly in the lower leagues, with brief

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spells at

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and Sevilla B.

Playing career

Born in

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, and a product of hometown

's prolific youth system, Tevenet made his first-team and

debut on 2 January 1994, playing 29 minutes in a 1–0 home win against

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. However, he would never be more than a relatively used attacking player, mainly off the bench. Tevenet completed his football development aged 23 when he joined

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, appearing in five matches for the main squad during the 1998–99 season as a substitute. Subsequently, he spent two years at

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(with a loan to old team Sevilla in between, in the

), scoring five goals in 28 games in his last year – only nine starts – as the

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suffered top-flight relegation. After that, Tevenet competed mostly in the second tier and the

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, with

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, Numancia (with a brief top-division return in the 2004–05 campaign) and

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. For 2007–08 he joined

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where, after a season and a half, he retired and became the new coach of the team.

Coaching career

In late 2009, Tevenet was in charge of

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in division three for only a month before quitting due to the club's financial problems. In March 2010, following former Sevilla teammate Manolo Jiménez's dismissal, he returned to the

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and was appointed assistant manager, leaving his post in September after Antonio Álvarez was fired. Tevenet returned to the third tier with San Roque in 2011, leaving after one year. He then signed for fellow league side UCAM Murcia, halfway through a season that ended in relegation. He remained in the

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for 2013–14 at Cartagena, leaving after a 5–1 aggregate defeat to

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in the

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. On 29 June 2014, Tevenet was appointed manager of

. He led the

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ese to first place in their group, and promotion to the second division via a 3–1 aggregate win over Huracán Valencia in the playoffs. He was relieved of his duties on 30 November, after four consecutive defeats. Tevenet was named coach of Hércules on 1 July 2016, and was sacked the following 5 March for a poor run of form. On 22 June 2017, he returned to Sevilla to manage the reserves in the second division. After his season ended with relegation he left for another B team, Levante B. On 15 December 2020, Tevenet was replaced by Alessio Lisci, having won once and lost five times in the first seven games of the campaign. The following June, he was hired at Atlético Madrid B, where he had played over two decades prior. He earned promotion from

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as group champions in his first season, winning 29 of 40 fixtures. In the following campaign, Tevenet's side achieved another promotion to reach

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, finishing second in their group and later winning the

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against Espanyol B. In June 2024, he returned to Atlético's first team as assistant under

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Managerial statistics

Honours

Player

Las Palmas *

: 1999–2000 Sevilla *Segunda División: 2000–01

References

External links

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