Iñigo Pérez

Iñigo Pérez is the kind of football story I find most compelling: a tidy central midfielder whose real fame arrived in the dugout. He never dazzled as a player, but the quiet intelligence required to link play has clearly translated into coaching, and landing the Villarreal job in La Liga is no small thing. I have a soft spot for managers who learned the game by doing the unglamorous work, because they tend to communicate it precisely. Pérez feels like a tactician on the rise, and I am genuinely curious to watch how his ideas mature on the touchline.

Name (English)

Iñigo Pérez

Name (Japanese)

イニゴ・ペレス

Reading

いにご・ぺれす

Born

January 18, 1988 (age 38)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Capricorn / Dragon

Origin

Pamplona, Navarre, Spain

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%C3%B1igo%20P%C3%A9rez
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A4%E3%83%8B%E3%82%B4%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9A%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B9
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q2499750

Tags

• Navarre
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-21

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.