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| Full name | Roberto Fernández Bonillo | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1962-07-05)5 July 1962 (age 63) | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Betxí, Spain | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.79 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position | Central midfielder | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| 1976–1978 | Villarreal | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1978–1979 | Villarreal | |||||||||||||
| 1979–1981 | Castellón | 63 | (8) | |||||||||||
| 1981–1986 | Valencia | 135 | (36) | |||||||||||
| 1986–1990 | Barcelona | 144 | (35) | |||||||||||
| 1990–1995 | Valencia | 123 | (22) | |||||||||||
| 1995–1999 | Villarreal | 142 | (8) | |||||||||||
| 1999–2001 | Córdoba | 67 | (0) | |||||||||||
| Total | 674 | (109) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1979–1980 | Spain U18 | 10 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 1981 | Spain U19 | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 1980–1988 | Spain U21 | 21 | (7) | |||||||||||
| 1982 | Spain U23 | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 1983 | Spain amateur | 2 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 1982–1991 | Spain | 29 | (1) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Valencia B | |||||||||||||
| 2004 | Córdoba | |||||||||||||
| 2006–2007 | Orihuela | |||||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | Alzira | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Roberto Fernández Bonillo (born 5 July 1962), often known simply asRobert orRoberto, is a Spanish former professionalfootballer who played mostly as acentral midfielder.
From 1981 and during the next 14 years, he played withValencia andBarcelona, going on to amassLa Liga totals of 439 matches and 95 goals over 15 seasons. He also had two spells atVillarreal, where he started his career.
Roberto represented theSpain national team for nearly one decade, appearing at oneWorld Cup and oneEuropean Championship.
Born inBetxí,Province of Castellón, Fernández started playing professionally withCD Castellón in 1979 after emerging through the ranks of neighboursVillarreal CF. After two years, he moved to another club inthe community,Valencia CF, proceeding to total 33La Liga goals in his first four seasons but suffering relegation in1986.
Fernández signed forFC Barcelona in the summer of 1986. He scored ten times in 40 matches in hisdebut campaign,[1] including apenalty in a 2–1 home win againstReal Madrid,[2] which won that year's league ahead of theCatalans.
After being an essential unit asBarça won two vice-championships, twoCopa del Rey trophies and the1988–89 European Cup Winners' Cup, Fernández returned to Valencia in 1990. He helped the latter to two consecutive fourth-place finishes, and spent almost the entire1993–94 on the sidelines due to injury.[3][4]
For the1995–96 season, Fernández re-joined another familiar team, Villarreal who now competed in theSegunda División. He scored once in 36 appearances in histhird year to help them to achieve a first-ever promotion, beingimmediately relegated afterwards. He retired in 2001 at almost 39, after two seasons in the second tier withCórdoba CF.[1]
Subsequently, after more than 700 official games, Fernández moved into coaching, being in charge of lowlyValencia B,Orihuela CF andUD Alzira in his native region. In the2004–05 campaign he was one of four managers for Córdoba, who finished in 19th position and dropped down toSegunda División B.[5][1]
Fernández returned to Barcelona in the summer of 2015, in directorial capacities.[6][7][8][9] He left in June 2018 after his contract expired, being replaced byEric Abidal who also played for the club.[10]
Fernández earned 29caps and scored one goal forSpain in nine years, and was included in the squad for theUEFA Euro 1984 and the1990 FIFA World Cup tournaments. His debut came during the former'squalifying stage, in a 1–0 home win overIceland on 27 October 1982 in which he played the full 90 minutes.[11]
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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| 1. | 14 November 1990 | Strahov,Prague,Czechoslovakia |  Czechoslovakia | 1–1 | 3–2 | Euro 1992 qualifying[11] |
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