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Francisco García Gómez (born 14 February 1938), commonly known as Paquito, is a Spanish retired football midfielder and manager.

Playing career

Paquito was born in Oviedo, Asturias. Over the course of 14 seasons, he played 327 La Liga games as a midfielder in representation of Real Oviedo and Valencia CF, scoring 31 goals. In the 1970–71 campaign, he appeared in 27 matches (all starts) and netted three times as the latter team won their fourth national championship, the first in 24 years.^[1]

Paquito earned nine caps for Spain during nearly five years, his debut coming on 1 November 1962 in a 6–0 home win against Romania for the 1964 European Nations' Cup qualifiers.^[1]

Coaching career

Paquito coached for more than 30 years,^[2] his first job with the professionals being in the 1977–78 season with Real Valladolid (Segunda División, seventh position). He achieved three promotions to the top flight, with Racing de Santander (1993), Rayo Vallecano (1995) and Villarreal CF (2000).^[3]

With the latter club, Paquito also worked in directorial capacities, as an assistant manager, youth academy director and head coach of farm team CD Onda.^[4]^[5]

Honours

Club

Valencia

International

Spain

UEFA European Championship: 1964

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d ^e Paquito, el centrocampista asturiano que dijo no a Italia (Paquito, the Asturian midfielder who said no to Italy); Marca, 10 February 2017 (in Spanish)
^ El abuelo de la Liga (The League's grandfather); El Periódico Mediterráneo, 19 March 2004 (in Spanish)
^ Iglesias, Hector (4 March 2009). "El año que Jiménez ayudó a Caparrós" [The year Jiménez helped Caparrós]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 March 2020.
^ Paquito pone fin a 15 años de trabajo en el Villarreal (Paquito puts an end to 15 years of work at Villarreal); Super Deporte, 2 July 2012 (in Spanish)
^ García Gómez, «Paquito», Francisco Archived 26 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine; at Vivir Asturias (in Spanish)

External links

Paquito at BDFutbol
Paquito manager profile at BDFutbol
CiberChe stats and bio (in Spanish)
Paquito at National-Football-Teams.com
Paquito García at EU-Football.info

[MARCA-1] Paquito, el centrocampista asturiano que dijo no a Italia (Paquito, the Asturian midfielder who said no to Italy); Marca, 10 February 2017 (in Spanish)

[2] El abuelo de la Liga (The League's grandfather); El Periódico Mediterráneo, 19 March 2004 (in Spanish)

[3] Iglesias, Hector (4 March 2009). "El año que Jiménez ayudó a Caparrós" [The year Jiménez helped Caparrós]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 March 2020.

[4] Paquito pone fin a 15 años de trabajo en el Villarreal (Paquito puts an end to 15 years of work at Villarreal); Super Deporte, 2 July 2012 (in Spanish)

[5] García Gómez, «Paquito», Francisco Archived 26 June 2013 at the Wayback Machine; at Vivir Asturias (in Spanish)

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