Here is all you need to know about Unai Emery, Spanish football manager, his age, salary, bio and more
Ollie Watkins and Leon Bailey’s goals kept the Gunners in second position heading into the last six weeks of the 2023–24 campaign, despite their painful 1-0 loss to Crystal Palace earlier on Sunday.
The Villa manager led the Gunners for eighteen months, starting in May 2018 and ending in November 2019, following a particularly bad run of results. While Arsenal’s title race was hindered by Aston Villa, all thanks to the manager to is leading his side to perform at this level. Let us have a look at who Unai Emery is.
Who is Aston Villa manager Unai Emery, bio, age, wife, salary, tactics, stats and net worth
The job Unai Emery has done at Villa is superb.
It’s easy to indulge in recency bias and suggest this was all there for him to do but when he got the job 18 months ago they were 14th and 3 points off the drop.
Now, they’re 4th and into a European QF.
— HLTCO (@HLTCO) April 15, 2024
Who is Unai Emery?
Unai Emery Etxegoien, popularly known as Unai Emery is a Spanish football player and a former player who currently manages Aston Villa. The 52-year-old was born on 3 November 1971 in Hondarribia, Spain and stands 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) tall.
A look at Unai Emery’s career
Emery played most of his playing career in Segunda Division, Spain, before retiring in 2004 and entering the coaching field. He was promoted to the Segunda Division from Lorca Deportiva during his debut season. Afterwards, he became a member of Almeria and guided the team to its first-ever promotion to La Liga.
After that, he relocated to Valencia and ended up finishing in the top three. Before moving to Sevilla in 2013, he spent six months coaching Spartak Moscow after leaving Valencia. In 2016, Emery transferred to the French team Paris Saint-Germain after winning a record three straight Europa Leagues at Sevilla.
Emery then joined Arsenal in 2018 after the legendary manager Arsene Wenger left the club. After one season there, he joined Villarreal July 2020 winning Europa League in his first season with the club.
In October 2022, he left his role as manager of Villarreal and returned to the Premier League, where he guided Aston Villa to promotion to the UEFA Conference League.
Unai Emery’s style of play
Emery’s team uses a novel tactic; where they construct a box in central midfield with four players to enjoy quality possession.
Emery’s tactic is the way his team fluidly creates a box of four players in central midfield when they enjoy quality possession. Emery’s teams adopt high defensive lines in an attempt to defend away from goal and they emphasise an aggressive press.
Villa’s defense is built around a compact 4-4-2 and a relative man-to-man approach where players in midfield will often screen passes.
Unai Emery’s family
Unai Emery is married to Luisa Fernandez and the two have welcomed a son togther named Lander who is a goalkeeper of Aston Villa U-12.
The Spaniard earns a salary upwards of seven million euros per season and had a buyout clause of six million euros at Villarreal with his current net worth at 200 million pounds.