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Guillermo Amor Martínez (born 4 December 1967) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a versatile midfielder, and the current manager of Australian club Adelaide United FC. After playing most of his professional career with Barcelona, winning several accolades during his ten-year tenure, he ended it in Scotland, with Livingston. Over the course of 12 seasons, he amassed La Liga totals of 375 games and 48 goals. Amor won nearly 40 caps with Spain during the 1990s, representing the nation in one World Cup and one European Championship. ==Club career== Born in Benidorm, Alicante, Valencian Community, Amor was a product of FC Barcelona's youth ranks, and made his first-team debuts in the 1988–89 season under Johan Cruyff, going on to quickly become one of the Catalan team's most influential players as it achieved four consecutive La Liga titles and the 1991–92 European Cup (he did not play in the final against U.C. Sampdoria, however). In 1993–94, as the club conquered the last of a successive four leagues, he appeared in all games safe one, scoring a career-best eight goals. Amor left ''Barça'' at the end of the 1997–98 campaign, with another national championship won, deemed surplus to requirements by new boss Louis van Gaal as longtime teammate Albert Ferrer, having played 421 matches overall for ''Barça'' only behind club greats Xavi, Migueli and Carles Rexach. He subsequently had his first abroad experience, appearing sparingly for Serie A side ACF Fiorentina for two years and then returning to Spain with Villarreal CF as it had just returned to the top level. Amor retired from football after a short spell with Scotland's Livingston, for which he signed in January 2003,〔(Livingston complete Amor coup ); UEFA.com, 27 January 2003〕 making his debut on the 28th in a 3–1 away win against Partick Thistle.〔(Scotland round-up: Glasgow rivals secure wins ); UEFA.com, 29 January 2003〕 The ''Livi Lions'' eventually narrowly avoided relegation from the Premier League. After retiring, Amor served a four-year spell at former club Barcelona, being responsible for the youth categories after Joan Laporta was named president in 2003. He left after the board of directors decided not to renew his contract,〔(El Barça paga el fracaso de la cantera con Amor (Amor pays ''Barça'' ''cantera'' failures) ); La Vanguardia, 29 June 2007 〕 but returned in July 2010 as technical director of football training. In late August 2014, Amor was invited to Australia by one of his former colleagues and friend, former Barcelona youth academy coach and manager of Adelaide United FC, Josep Gombau. He spent a month observing and consulting the latter with Adelaide's training, after which he signed a one-year contract with the club to become the technical director. On 24 July 2015, following the resignation of Gombau due to family reasons, Amor was appointed as the new coach prior to the start of the season.〔(Amor to replace Gombau ); Adelaide United, 24 July 2015〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Guillermo Amor」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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