Fernando Gómez Colomer

Fernando Gómez is the kind of footballer I have a soft spot for: a one-club man in an era when loyalty is rare. A record 556 appearances and 142 goals for Valencia, debuting at eighteen, is not just longevity, it is devotion. Attacking midfielders are usually the restless artists who chase bigger stages, yet he stayed and then served the club from the front office. I read that as a quiet argument for rootedness over reinvention. The statistics impress me, but it is the single-mindedness of belonging to one place that makes him genuinely memorable to me.

Name (English)

Fernando Gómez Colomer

Name (Japanese)

フェルナンド・ゴメス

Reading

ふぇるなんど・ごめす

Born

September 11, 1965 (age 60)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Virgo / Snake

Origin

Valencia, Province of Valencia, Spain

Height

178 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%95%E3%82%A7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%8A%E3%83%B3%E3%83%89%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B4%E3%83%A1%E3%82%B9%20(%E3%82%B9%E3%83%9A%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B3%E3%81%AE%E3%82%B5%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B)

Tags

• Province of Valencia
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.