Javier Fernández Cabrera

Javier Fernández Cabrera Martín Peñato (born 4 October 1984) is a Spanish professional football coach. He currently manages the Bangladesh national football team.[1][2] Cabrera is an UEFA Pro License Coach with wide experience in both professional and grassroots football projects.[3][4] Cabrera also has a reputation as a football analyst.[5] Cabrera has the experience of working as an expert analyst for Opta Sports and he also has a bachelor's degree in football as well as advertising and marketing.[6][7][8][9]

Javier Cabrera
Personal information
Full name Javier Fernández Cabrera Martín Peñato
Date of birth (1984-10-04) 4 October 1984
Place of birth Madrid, Spain
Height 1.84 m (6 ft 0 in)
Team information
Current team
 Bangladesh (manager)
Managerial career
Years Team
2013–15 Sporting Clube de Goa (assistant coach)
2016–17 CF Rayo Majadahonda
2018 Barcelona Academy Northern Virginia
2018–22 Deportivo Alavés (Elite Academy)
2022– Bangladesh

Coaching career

Cabrera worked as a technical director and as an assistant coach for Indian side Sporting Clube de Goa, from 2013 to 2015.[10] In 2016, he was appointed as the manager for Spanish club CF Rayo Majadahonda and spent a year coaching the team, before leaving the club in 2017.[11] Moreover, he was the head coach of FC Barcelona Academy in Northern Virginia for 4 months in 2018.[12] From 2018, Cabrera acted as the Elite Academy coach of La Liga side Deportivo Alavés for 4 years. [13][14]

Bangladesh national team

On 8 January 2022, Bangladesh Football Federation announced that they had hired Javier Fernández Cabrera as the new national team head coach. Cabrera signed an 11 month contract during a meeting called by the BFF on 19 January 2022, where he was officially made the head coach of the Bangladesh national football team.[15] Upon signing the contract, Cabrera's first task was to observe the training sessions of all the Bangladesh Premier League teams, in order to scout for new talents.[16] BFF also appointed Masud Parvez Kaiser as Cabrera's assistant coach and former national team goalkeeper Biplob Bhattacharjee as the country's goalkeeping coach.[17] On 9 March, former Bangladesh national team captain Hassan Al-Mamun was also added to Cabrera's coaching panel, as an assistant coach.[18]

Managerial statistics
As of 28 March 2023
Team From To Record
G W D L GF GA GD Win %
 Bangladesh 8 January 2022 present 10 2 2 6 5 14 −9 020.00

References
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  2. Report, Star Sports (January 8, 2022). "Javier Cabrera made coach of national football team". The Daily Star.
  3. "জাতীয় ফুটবল দলের নতুন কোচ স্প্যানিশ জাভিয়ের কাবরেরা". Daily Inquilab (in Bengali). 8 January 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  4. প্রতিবেদক, ক্রীড়া. "১১ মাসের জন্য বাংলাদেশ ফুটবল দলের কোচ কাবরেরা". Prothomalo.
  5. "আপাতত দেশি কোচদের অভিজ্ঞতা কাজে লাগাতে চান কোচ". DBC Sports (in Bengali). 24 January 2022. Retrieved 24 January 2022.
  6. বাংলাদেশ, Daily Bangladesh :: ডেইলি. "Javier Cabrera made Bangladesh Football team coach". Daily Bangladesh.
  7. "বাংলাদেশের নতুন কোচ হ্যাভিয়ের, অভিষেক ইন্দোনেশিয়ায়". Daily Dhaka Post (in Bengali). 8 January 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  8. "জামালদের দায়িত্ব নিতে আসছেন বার্সার কোচ". Daily Jagonews24 (in Bengali). 8 January 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  9. "জাতীয় ফুটবল দলের কোচ কাবরেরা". Daily Bdnews24 (in Bengali). 8 January 2022. Archived from the original on 8 January 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  10. Chaudhuri, Arunava. "Sporting Goa's Javier Cabrera happy with the progress of SCG Academy". www.sportskeeda.com.
  11. "বাংলাদেশের নতুন কোচ জাভিয়ের কাবরেরা". Daily Risingbd.com (in Bengali). 8 January 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  12. "BFF appoints Javier Cabrera as new head coach". Daily Football Bangladesh. 9 January 2022. Retrieved 9 January 2022.
  13. "Javier Cabrera gets appointed as the head coach of Bangladesh". The Business Standard. January 8, 2022.
  14. "বাংলাদেশ ফুটবল দলের নতুন কোচ হাভিয়ের কাবরেরা". Daily Bangla Tribune (in Bengali). 8 January 2022. Retrieved 8 January 2022.
  15. "LIVE | বাংলাদেশ ফুটবল দলের নতুন কোচের সংবাদ সম্মেলন | BFF Press Conference | T Sports" – via www.youtube.com.
  16. "Javier Cabrera inspects training activities". The Business Standard. January 21, 2022.
  17. "New head coach happy to have his assistants - Sports - observerbd.com". The Daily Observer.
  18. "জাতীয় দলের নতুন সহকারী কোচ হাসান আল মামুন | কালের কণ্ঠ". Kalerkantho. March 9, 2022.
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