| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | José Ramón Fuertes Roces | ||
| Date of birth | (1943-09-02)2 September 1943 (age 82) | ||
| Place of birth | Mieres, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1963–1965 | Real Valladolid | 40 | (6) |
| 1965–1969 | Pontevedra | 88 | (9) |
| 1969–1973 | Valencia | 44 | (3) |
| 1973–1974 | Burgos | 19 | (1) |
| Total | 191 | (19) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 1976–1979 | Caudal | ||
| 1979–1980 | Langreo | ||
| 1980–1982 | Logroñés | ||
| 1982–1984 | Tenerife | ||
| 1984–1986 | Avilés Industrial | ||
| 1987 | Alcoyano | ||
| 1987–1988 | Alzira | ||
| 1988–1989 | Recreativo de Huelva | ||
| 1989 | Real Murcia | ||
| 1991–1992 | Recreativo de Huelva | ||
| 1993 | Numancia | ||
| 1993–1994 | Mensajero | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
José Ramón Fuertes Roces (born 22 September 1943) is a Spanish formerfootball player andmanager.
Aforward, he achievedLa Liga totals of 155 games and 14 goals forReal Valladolid,Pontevedra andValencia, winning the title with the last of those clubs in1970–71.
As a manager, Fuertes worked mainly in the lower leagues, apart from a brief La Liga spell withReal Murcia and three clubs in theSegunda División.
Fuertes won promotion forCaudal from theTercera División to theSegunda División B and also managedLogroñés before arriving atTenerife. With the club from theCanary Islands, he won promotion to theSegunda División in 1982–83.[1] He was fired due to poor results in February 1984.[2]
In1987–88, Fuertes wonAlzira's first promotion to the second tier.[3] He began the following season atRecreativo de Huelva in the same competition, leaving in April 1989 for top-flightReal Murcia.[4]
Fuertes's debut as a La Liga manager on 31 April 1989 was a 2–1 defeat at his former clubReal Valladolid, and he said after the game that the opponents must have visitedSanctuary of Fátima weekly to account for their luck.[5] He won once in nine games as the season ended in relegation, though that came in a 2–0 home victory overBarcelona on 25 May, a result that contributed toReal Madrid winning the title overJohan Cruyff's team.[6] He left theEstadio de La Condomina by mutual consent in October 1989, after a poor start to the new season. He waivered 2 millionSpanish pesetas from his contract, thereby being paid out with 8 million.[7]
Fuertes returned in 1991 to Recreativo, back in the third division, as their fourth manager of theseason. His team reached theplayoff but were beaten to promotion byReal Madrid Castilla.[8]
From the mid-1990s, Fuertes changed career to ascout and technical advisor at Valencia. He signed fellow Mieres nativeMiguel Ángel Angulo fromSporting de Gijón youth on a free transfer, proposing a pay rise from 30,000 to 500,000 pesetas a month while the player's father was unemployed. He persuaded another Asturian,Juan Mata, to leave Real Madrid Castilla for Valencia, who sold him years later to Chelsea for €30 million.[3]