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Gil Orriols Jansana

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Orriols and the second or maternal family name is Jansana.

Gil Orriols Jansana (born 17 January 1977 in Barcelona, Catalonia).

Contents

  • 1 Early life
  • 2 Coaching career
  • 3 References
  • 4 External links

Early life

Orriols is former Alpine Skier and was 2000 champion of the Pierra Menta Jove. He made his master's degree in sport and physical education sciences at the University of Barcelona. He holds also a diploma in collective sports from the Ins*ut Nacional d'Educació Física de Catalunya – Byomedic.

Coaching career

Orriols began his coaching career in 2003 with FC Barcelona C in Catalonia, where he served as physical and high performance coach. Mostly coaching Barcelona's youth teams from U-9 to U-20. In 2005 Orriols left Barcelona to go abroad to Canada to sign with the Montreal Impact organization, accepting a physical performance role with the club. In Montreal he was responsible for creating a physical training plan adapted to the constraints of the Impact’s calendar. In August 2006 he accepted an offer from ASPIRE Academy in Qatar, where he was physical trainer until last October, 2009. On November 24, 2009 he returned to Montreal to *ume the role of *istant coach and physical performance manager under Marc Dos Santos.

References

    External links

    • Montreal Impact bio