Rodolfo Borrell

Rodolfo Borrell

Rodolfo at the Emirates in 2018
Personal information
Date of birth	(1971-01-31) 31 January 1971 (age 53)
Place of birth	Barcelona, Spain
Team information
Current team	Austin FC (sporting director)
Managerial career
Years	Team
1995–2003	Barcelona U11-U12-U14
2003–2006	Barcelona U16
2006–2008	Barcelona U18
2008	Iraklis (assistant)
2008	Iraklis
2009	Barcelona U18
2009–2011	Liverpool U18
2011–2012	Liverpool U23
2012–2014	Liverpool (academy technical director)
2014–2016	Manchester City (academy technical director)
2016–2023	Manchester City (assistant)
2023–	Austin FC (sporting director)

Rodolfo Borrell Marco (born 31 January 1971) is a Spanish football coach, who is currently a sporting director at Austin FC.

Management career

Barcelona

Borrell was a youth coach at Barcelona, where he coached some of the world's finest emerging talent at their renowned 'La Masia' Academy. Borrell still possesses one of the most successful records in history of Youth Football coaching at F.C. Barcelona.^{[citation needed]} He worked at Barcelona between 1995 and 2008, where he formed part of the team that developed Lionel Messi, Gerard Pique and Cesc Fàbregas.^[1]

English Premier League

In July 2009, Liverpool agreed a deal to bring in Barcelona youth coaches Rodolfo Borrell and Pep Segura to the club. In the mid-late 2000s, first team coach Rafael Benitez made it a priority of his to improve the club's Academy, hence why Rodolfo was brought in.^{[citation needed]} After two successful seasons as head coach of the U18s, Rodolfo became Liverpool's Reserve Team Head Coach in May 2011."It's a great honour for me. The club have shown they have great confidence in my ability and I am happy. It is a job that means my name will sit forever alongside the likes of Bob Paisley, Joe Fagan, Roy Evans, Phil Thompson and Sammy Lee. They are big names in Liverpool's history and it is also an important role because it is the final step in the Academy. The players need to be ready if they are to make the move into the first-team set-up and I am going to fight for that." After a two-year spell as head coach of Liverpool U18s and an eighteen-month stint in charge of the Reserve side, he then became head of academy coaching at Liverpool. Recruited in the summer of 2009 by Rafael Benitez, he and compatriot Jose Segura helped revolutionise Liverpool's ailing Academy.^{[citation needed]} Having failed to provide the first team with a key player since Steven Gerrard who made his debut in 1998,^{[citation needed]} the academy produced numerous talents since Borrell's appointment.^{[citation needed]}

In March 2014, Rodolfo was appointed as Manchester City global technical director.^[2] In July 2016, Manchester City appointed him as 1st team assistant coach to Pep Guardiola. Rodolfo was promoted by Guardiola from head of academy coaching, a role he had held since July 2014.^[3]

Austin FC

In June 2023, Borrell was appointed to be named the Sporting Director for MLS side Austin FC,^[4][5] replacing former Manchester City captain and United States international Claudio Reyna.

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