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Place of Birth: CastellĂł de la Plana, Valencian Community, Spain
About Xavi Valero
- Vicente Javier 'Xavi' Valero Verchili (born 28 February 1973 in CastellĂłn de la Plana), is a Spanish former football goalkeeper and current goalkeeping coach for Premier League team West Ham United. After a playing career with CastellĂłn, Mallorca, Logroñés (where he worked with JosĂ© Ochotorena), Real Murcia, CĂłrdoba, he signed for a short spell with Wrexham, to improve his English (learnt at the University of CastellĂłn]). After retiring from playing, Valero took his coaching badges, gaining a Masters in Goalkeeper Coaching from the Royal Spanish Football Federation (RFEF) and a Master of Sports Psychology UNED in Madrid.After JosĂ© Ochotorena decided to return to Spain to work with Valencia, Rafael BenĂtez appointed Valero head goalkeeping coach of Liverpool in July 2007.Valero has been praised by former Liverpool striker Fernando Torres as one of the biggest reasons for his goals.
- Torres stated that during training, Valero instructs the players on how goalkeepers in future games react to one-on-one situations.He joined Inter Milan along with other former members of Rafa BenĂtez's backroom team.
- However his stint was only short lived when he left the club in December 2010 along with Rafael BenĂtez and returned to his family home in Merseyside, England. Then he worked with Benitez again in Napoli, he was the goalkeeper coach at Real Madrid Club de FĂștbol following the announcement of appointing Rafael Benitez as head coach of the Spanish team.In June 2018, he was named as goalkeeping coach as part of Manuel Pellegrini's staff at West Ham United.
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