Full name Gil Orriols Jansana Years Team | Name Gil Jansana | |
Date of birth (1977-03-17) March 17, 1977 (age 38) Place of birth Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain Current team Montreal Impact (assistant coach) 2003–2005 FC Barcelona C (youth coach) | ||
Gil Orriols Jansana (born 17 January 1977 in Barcelona, Catalonia) is currently an assistant coach and physical performance manager for the Montreal Impact.
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Early life
Jansana 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 diplom in collective sports from the Institut Nacional d'Educació Física de Catalunya – Byomedic.
Coaching career
Jansana began his coaching career in 2003 with FC Barcelona C in Spain, where he served as physical and high performance coach. Mostly coaching Barcelona's youth teams from U-9 to U-20. In 2005 Jansana 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 assume the role of assistant coach and physical performance manager under Marc Dos Santos.