Carles Cuadrat, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Carles Cuadrat

Spanish footballer and manager

Date of Birth: 28-Oct-1968

Place of Birth: Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain

Profession: association football manager, association football player

Nationality: Spain

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Carles Cuadrat Xiqués (born 28 October 1968) is a Spanish football coach and current manager of Indian Super League club Bengaluru FC.
A former player, Cuadrat played as a left-defender for FC Barcelona as well as the Spanish youth teams. Born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Cuadrat played for various clubs in the Spanish second division.
He joined La Masia at age of ten in 1978.
He played for all the FC Barcelona youth teams between 1978 and 1988.
Cuadrat was also part of the FC Barcelona side that won the U19 Spanish Cup in 1986 and 1987.
In 1988, Cuadrat played for FC Barcelona's first team in couple of friendlies under then head coach Luis Aragones alongside the likes of Gary Lineker and Bernd Schuster at the Camp Nou.
He played fourteen times for Spanish national youth teams (U15 & U18) during his youth years most notably finishing third in the 1985 UEFA European Under-16 Championship. Cuadrat played for Catalonian clubs FC Barcelona B, CF Gavà and CE Sabadell in Segunda División B between 1988 and 1998.
With his playing career cut short by injury in 1998 at the age of 30, Cuadrat began working as a Physical Coach for the FC Barcelona Youth Academy.