Gil Orriols Jansana

Gil Orriols Jansana
Personal information
Full name Gil Orriols Jansana
Date of birth (1977-03-17) March 17, 1977
Place of birth Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Club information
Current team
Montreal Impact (assistant coach)
Teams managed
Years Team
2003–2005 FC Barcelona C (youth coach)
2005 Montreal Impact (physical performance manager)
2005–2009 ASPIRE Academy (academy coach)
2009– Montreal Impact (assistant)
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Orriols and the second or maternal family name is Jansana.

Gil Orriols Jansana (born 17 January 1977 in Barcelona, Catalonia) is currently an assistant coach and physical performance manager for the Montreal Impact.

Early life

Jansana is former Alpine Skier and was 2000 champion of the Pierra Menta Jove.[1] 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.[2]

References

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