Ángel López Pérez

Miguel Ángel López Pérez (born 5 April 1983) former Spanish football coach and the manager of Uzbekistan Super League club Surkhon Termez.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is López and the second or maternal family name is Pérez.
Ángel López
Personal information
Full name Miguel Ángel López Pérez
Date of birth (1983-04-05) 5 April 1983
Place of birth Madrid, Spain
Team information
Current team
 Surkhon Termez (manager)
Youth career
Years Team
Vicálvaro
Roma
San Fernando Henares
Managerial career
2017–2018 Recreativo
2018–2019 Equatorial Guinea
2020 Delfín
2020–2021 Volos
2021 Atromitos
2022– Surkhon Termez

Playing career

Born in Madrid, López represented Vicálvaro, Roma and San Fernando Henares as a youth before retiring at the age of 18 to start his studies.[1]

Coaching career

After retiring, he started working as a fitness coach at CD Coslada, subsequently having the same role at Internacional de Madrid, San Fernando CD and Getafe CF B.[1]

In 2007, López was included in Michael Laudrup's squad in Getafe's first team, again as a fitness coach.[1]

López followed Cosmin Contra to Getafe, Guangzhou R&F and Al Shabab Al Arabi Club Dubai, always as his assistant. In July 2017, he returned to Spain to work as Javier Casquero's assistant at Recreativo de Huelva,[2] but was appointed manager in November after Casquero's dismissal.[3]

López was sacked by Recre on 11 February 2018,[4] and on 10 October, he took over the Equatorial Guinea national team manager role.[5] On 28 September 2019, he resigned from the Nzalang.[6]

On 27 December 2019, López was named at the helm of Ecuadorian club Delfín for the ensuing campaign.[7] He was dismissed after three league matches.[8]

In September 2020 he became manager of Greek club Volos.[9] On 20 April 2021, he was released with a mutual agreement from Volos.[10]

In May 2021 he moved to Atromitos.[11] In January 2022 he became the manager of Uzbekistan Super League club Surkhon Termez.[12]

References
  1. "Ángel López, el entrenador sin padrino que triunfa en Dubai" [Ángel López, the manager without a godfather who triumphs in Dubai] (in Spanish). El Confidencial. 15 March 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  2. "Casquero: "Llevamos trabajando desde hace tiempo y el proyecto es ambicioso"" [Casquero: "We have been working for some time and the project is ambitious"] (in Spanish). Huelva 24. 13 July 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  3. "Ángel López 'asciende' en el banquillo con la clara intención de que "se vea un Recre competitivo"" [Ángel López 'promotes' to the bench with the clear intention of "seeing a competitive Recre"] (in Spanish). Huelva Buenas Noticias. 3 November 2017. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  4. "Ángel López es destituido como técnico del primer equipo" [Ángel López is sacked as first team manager] (in Spanish). Recreativo Huelva. 11 February 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  5. "Ángel López nuevo técnico del Nzalang Nacional" [Ángel López new manager of the national Nzalang] (in Spanish). Equatoguinean Football Federation. 10 October 2018. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  6. "Equatorial Guinea: Angel Lopez steps down as national coach". BBC Sport. 28 September 2019.
  7. "El español Miguel Ángel López es el nuevo entrenador del Delfín SC" [The Spaniard Miguel Ángel López is the new manager of Delfín SC] (in Spanish). El Comercio. 27 December 2019. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
  8. "Ángel López: Supliqué por favor quedarme en Delfín". El Universo (in Spanish). 4 March 2020. Retrieved 6 March 2020.
  9. "Ángel López, nuevo entrenador del Volos de la Superliga griega". Marca.com. 3 September 2020.
  10. "Τέλος κι επίσημα από τον Βόλο ο Λόπεθ" [Lopez has officially "ended" from Volos]. www.gazzetta.gr (in Greek). 20 April 2021. Retrieved 24 June 2021.
  11. "OFICIAL: Atromitos, Ángel López nuevo entrenador - TODOmercadoWEB.es". www.todomercadoweb.es.
  12. "Spain - Ángel López - Profile with news, career statistics and history - Soccerway". uk.soccerway.com.
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