.jpg) Sánchez asValladolid coach | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Onésimo Sánchez González | ||
| Date of birth | (1968-08-14)14 August 1968 (age 57) | ||
| Place of birth | Valladolid, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
| Position | Winger | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Valladolid | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1986–1988 | Valladolid | 39 | (2) |
| 1988–1989 | Cádiz | 16 | (0) |
| 1989–1990 | Barcelona B | 18 | (4) |
| 1989–1990 | Barcelona | 2 | (0) |
| 1990–1993 | Valladolid | 96 | (9) |
| 1993–1996 | Rayo Vallecano | 106 | (17) |
| 1996–1997 | Sevilla | 24 | (1) |
| 1997–1998 | Rayo Vallecano | 35 | (5) |
| 1999–2000 | Burgos | 15 | (0) |
| 2000–2002 | Palencia | ||
| Total | 351 | (38) | |
| International career | |||
| 1987 | Spain U21 | 1 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2006–2007 | Valladolid B | ||
| 2008 | Huesca | ||
| 2009–2010 | Valladolid B | ||
| 2010 | Valladolid | ||
| 2010–2011 | Huesca | ||
| 2013 | Murcia | ||
| 2015–2018 | Toledo | ||
| 2018–2019 | Girona (assistant) | ||
| 2020–2022 | Celta B | ||
| 2022–2023 | Atlético Baleares | ||
| 2024 | Ibiza | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Onésimo Sánchez González (born 14 August 1968), known simply asOnésimo as a player, is a Spanish former professionalfootballer who played mainly as awinger, currently amanager.
He was mainly associated withReal Valladolid throughout his career, serving the club as both a player and manager.[1] He amassedLa Liga totals of 221 matches and 21 goals over nine seasons, which included the1989–90 campaign spent withBarcelona.
Sánchez started working as a coach in 2006.
Onésimo was born inValladolid,Castile and León. From the very start of his career, he had a reputation as an exceptionaldribbler.[2] However, he was also often criticised for the one dimensionality of his game, the media often drawing attention to his wastefulness in front of goal.[3]
Onésimo's playing career began with his hometown clubReal Valladolid, for whom he made nearly 50 first-team appearances before the age of 20. For the1988–89 season, he joined fellowLa Liga sideCádiz CF. His talent attracted the attention ofJohan Cruyff, who took him toFC Barcelona the following summer.[4]
Onésimo's time at theCamp Nou was an unhappy one: Cruyff, who disapproved of the player's partying, selected him only twice in the league all season.[4] The brightest moment of his time at the club was his dominating performance after coming on as asubstitute in the second leg of theUEFA Cup Winners' Cup tie againstR.S.C. Anderlecht, even thoughBarça lost on aggregate (3–2).[5]
Onésimo returned to Valladolid after a single season with Barcelona, and would experience bothpromotion and relegation with them the following years as well as with his next team,Rayo Vallecano. For the1996–97 campaign he moved toSevilla FC – with whom he suffered another relegation from the top flight – and returned to Rayo the following year.
After more than six months out of the game, Onésimo signed forBurgos CF ofSegunda División B in February 1999.[6] He saw out his career, retiring at nearly 34, withCF Palencia, another club in the third tier.[5]
Sánchez was named as coach ofReal Valladolid Promesas in 2006.[7] He left midway through the 2007–08 season to take charge ofSD Huesca, whose manager,Manolo Villanova, had been appointed atReal Zaragoza.[7]
Even though he led the team to promotion from division three, Sánchez's contract was not renewed,[7] and he returned to Valladolid's reserves in 2009 following the dismissal of Paco de la Fuente.[7] He turned the side's fortunes around as during the2009–10 campaign they lost only one game under his management,[7] and this success ultimately led to him being promoted to the management of the first team after the sacking ofJosé Luis Mendilibar on 31 January 2010.[1]
On 5 April 2010, after ten league matches – six losses and only one win – Sánchez was fired by Valladolid, with the team rankingsecond from bottom.[8] That July he returned to Huesca, still in the second tier,[9] taking them to abest-ever 14th place but resigning with a year left on his contract.[10]
In February 2013, Sánchez returned to the second division withReal Murcia, who were 16th following the dismissal ofGustavo Siviero.[11] He succeeded inavoiding relegation but his contract was not renewed, with theMurcians instead choosingJulio Velázquez.[12]
Sánchez got back into management in July 2015, atCD Toledo of the third level on a two-year deal.[13] After two consecutive play-off finishes, he left in January 2018 by mutual agreement with theCastilla–La Mancha team threatened with relegation.[14]
In the summer of 2018, Sánchez was named assistant toEusebio Sacristán at top-flightGirona FC.[15] All of the latter's staff left at the end ofthe season, which ended in relegation.[16]
Sánchez was hired byCelta de Vigo B on 28 January 2020, replacing Jacobo Montes at a team second-bottom in the third tier.[17] Four months later, havingavoided relegation in a season curtailed byCOVID-19, he was given a new contract to June 2021.[18] In hisfirst full campaign, he led theGalicians to thepromotion play-offs, being eliminated 2–1 in the semi-finals on 16 May 2021 by anotherreserve team,Bilbao Athletic.[19]
In June 2021, Sánchez added two more years to his contract as the team entered the newPrimera Federación after a league restructuring,[20] but was dismissed halfway through.[21] He returned to work in the same division on 19 December 2022, atCD Atlético Baleares,[22] being fired less than two months later.[23]
On 2 May 2024, after more than a year without a club, Sánchez was named manager of third division sideUD Ibiza on a deal until the end ofthe season; he took over fromGuillermo Fernández Romo.[24] He left on 27 June, after being knocked out byFC Barcelona Atlètic in the semi-finals of thepromotion play-offs.[25][26]
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | Ref | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | |||||
| Valladolid B |  | 20 February 2006 | 30 June 2007 | 54 | 17 | 12 | 25 | 51 | 64 | −13 | 031.48 | [27] |
| Huesca | | 6 March 2008 | 26 June 2008 | 15 | 5 | 7 | 3 | 17 | 16 | +1 | 033.33 | [28] |
| Valladolid B | | 9 February 2009 | 1 February 2010 | 37 | 22 | 8 | 7 | 65 | 30 | +35 | 059.46 | [29] |
| Valladolid | | 1 February 2010 | 5 April 2010 | 10 | 1 | 3 | 6 | 6 | 17 | −11 | 010.00 | [30] |
| Huesca | | 1 July 2010 | 8 June 2011 | 44 | 13 | 17 | 14 | 40 | 47 | −7 | 029.55 | [31] |
| Murcia | | 4 February 2013 | 10 July 2013 | 18 | 5 | 5 | 8 | 17 | 23 | −6 | 027.78 | [32] |
| Toledo | | 6 July 2015 | 23 January 2018 | 110 | 45 | 28 | 37 | 134 | 115 | +19 | 040.91 | [33] |
| Celta B | | 28 January 2020 | 12 July 2022 | 69 | 33 | 15 | 21 | 105 | 80 | +25 | 047.83 | [34] |
| Atlético Baleares | | 19 December 2022 | 13 February 2023 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 7 | 8 | −1 | 016.67 | [35] |
| Ibiza | | 2 May 2024 | 27 June 2024 | 6 | 1 | 2 | 3 | 8 | 10 | −2 | 016.67 | [36] |
| Total | 369 | 143 | 99 | 127 | 450 | 410 | +40 | 038.75 | — | |||