Place of birth Gibraltar Role Football player Years Team Height 1.84 m | –2009 Gibraltar Name Aaron Asquez | |
Date of birth (1978-09-20) 20 September 1978 (age 37) –2010 Manchester United (Gibraltar) 2010–2013 Manchester United (Gibraltar) (assistant) | ||
Aaron Asquez (born 20 September 1978) is a Gibraltarian retired football player, current coach and manager. As of 2017, he is the manager of the Gibraltar national under-21 football team.
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Career
Not much is known about Asquez's playing career, although it is known that his final club was Manchester United (Gibraltar), retiring in 2010 to take up a role in the coaching staff. Until 2009, he played for the Gibraltar national football team before they were members of UEFA, playing in unrecognised friendlies as well as the Island Games.
He briefly came out of retirement in the 2016-17 season to play for Olympique 13 in the Gibraltar Second Division, making 7 appearances for the club before leaving in March 2017 after accepting an offer from the Gibraltar FA to manage the newly established Gibraltar national under-21 football team, ahead of their debut appearance in the upcoming qualification campaign for the 2019 UEFA European Under-21 Championship in Italy and San Marino.
Aaron Asquez is a member The Gibraltar FA veterans teams, which takes part in charity games, primarily against British military teams stationed on the overseas territory.
Management career
Upon his initial retirement from football in 2010, Asquez was appointed as assistant manager at Manchester 62 F.C. He remained in the role for 3 years until becoming manager for the 2013–14 season. However, after two seasons in charge, he stepped down from management to return to his role as assistant to David Ochello. In 2016, he was appointed as assistant manager at Olympique 13 while also registering as a player for the first time in 6 years.
In 31 March 2017 it was announced that Asquez, who holds a UEFA B coaching license was to be the first manager of the newly established Gibraltar national under-21 football team, with Michael Felice as his Assistant. The Gibraltar FA had been eligible to enter a team since its admittance to UEFA in 2013, however they had opted not to field a side in this age group for undisclosed reasons until 2017. In his first two games as manager of the new Gibraltar age group, he oversaw two 3-0 defeats, to Austria and Armenia.