Quique Sánchez Flores

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Personal information
Quique Flores
Full name	Enrique Sánchez Flores
Date of birth	February 05, 1965
Place of birth	Madrid, Spain
Height	1.76 cm
Nickname	Quique
Club information
Current club	Valencia CF

Quique Flores, full name Enrique Sánchez Flores (born 5 February 1965), is a Spanish football coach and former fullback. He is the current manager of Valencia CF.

1 Playing career
2 Coaching career
3 Trivia
4 Playing career summary
5 Managerial career
6 External links

[edit] Playing career

Quique Flores was born in Madrid. During his playing career he spent ten seasons with Valencia, from 1985. However, he did not enjoy the best of times at the Mestalla Stadium as the club were relegated during his time there, and when they did get back into the top division, they languished near the bottom.

In 1994, the defender moved to Real Madrid where he would stay for two seasons and win the league title in 1995. Following his time in Madrid, Flores had a brief spell with Real Zaragoza before turning his hand to coaching.

He made 15 appearances for the Spain national team and was selected to the 1990 World Cup squad.

[edit] Coaching career

Quique followed in the footsteps of one of his predecessors at Valencia, Rafael Benitez, by taking charge of the Real Madrid youth team. After winning plaudits during his time with the youth team, Flores was approached about the manger's job at newly-promoted club Getafe.

After an impressive 2004/05 season with Getafe, which managed to finish a respectable 13th place, he was given the opportunity to coach his former club, Valencia, succeeding Claudio Ranieri. In his first season, Quique guided the club to third place in La Liga. This performance qualified the club for the preliminary round of the 2006-07 UEFA Champions League.