Rubén Baraja

Rubén Baraja is the kind of midfielder I have real affection for. Seventeen years as a professional, most of them anchoring Valencia, and an essential figure in five major club titles tells you everything about his reliability. A complete central midfielder with tackling, technique, passing and a goalscoring touch is a rare blend, and at 180cm he had the frame to compete physically. What I admire most is the second act: retiring and stepping straight into management. Players who understand the game well enough to teach it often had the sharpest minds on the pitch, and his Valladolid roots clearly run deep.

Name (English)

Rubén Baraja

Name (Japanese)

ルベン・バラハ

Reading

るべん・ばらは

Born

July 11, 1975 (age 51)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Cancer / Rabbit

Origin

Valladolid, Valladolid Province, Spain

Height

180 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rub%C3%A9n%20Baraja
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%AB%E3%83%99%E3%83%B3%E3%83%BB%E3%83%90%E3%83%A9%E3%83%8F
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q299488

Tags

• Valladolid Province
• 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.