Roberto Fernández Bonillo

Roberto

Personal information
Full name	Roberto Fernández Bonillo
Date of birth	(1962-07-05) 5 July 1962
Place of birth	Betxí, Spain
Height
Position(s)	Midfielder
Youth career
1976–1978	Villarreal
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1978–1979	Villarreal
1979–1981	Castellón	63	(8)
1981–1986	Valencia	135	(36)
1986–1990	Barcelona	144	(35)
1990–1995	Valencia	123	(22)
1995–1999	Villarreal	142	(8)
1999–2001	Córdoba	67	(0)
Total		674	(109)
International career
1979–1980	Spain U18	10	(1)
1981	Spain U19	3	(0)
1980–1988	Spain U21	21	(7)
1982	Spain U23	1	(0)
1983	Spain amateur	2	(0)
1982–1991	Spain	29	(1)
Managerial career
2004	Valencia B
2004	Córdoba
2006–2007	Orihuela
2008–2009	Alzira
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Fernández and the second or maternal family name is Bonillo.

Roberto Fernández Bonillo (born 5 July 1962), known simply as Roberto, is a Spanish retired footballer who played mostly as a central midfielder.

From 1981 and during the next fourteen years, he played with Valencia and Barcelona, going on to amass La Liga totals of 439 games and 95 goals over the course of 15 seasons. He also had two spells at Villarreal, where he started his career.

Roberto represented the Spanish national team for nearly one decade, appearing at one World Cup and one European Championship.

Club career

Born in Betxí, Province of Castellón, Roberto started playing professionally with CD Castellón in 1979, after emerging through the ranks of neighbours Villarreal CF. After two years he moved to another club in the community, Valencia CF, proceeding to score an impressive 33 La Liga goals during his first four seasons combined but suffering relegation in 1986.

Subsequently Roberto signed for FC Barcelona, netting ten times in 40 matches in his debut campaign, including a penalty in a 2–1 home win against Real Madrid, which won that year's league ahead of the Catalans.

After being an essential unit as Barça won two vice-championships, two Copa del Rey trophies and the 1989 conquest of the UEFA Cup Winners' Cup, Roberto returned to Valencia in 1990, helping the Che to two consecutive fourth league places and spending almost the entire 1993–94 on the sidelines, due to injury.

For the 1995–96 season Roberto re-joined another familiar team, now Villarreal which competed in the second level. He scored once in 36 appearances in his third year to achieve a first-ever promotion to the side, which was immediately relegated afterwards; he retired in 2001 at almost 39, after two seasons in division two with Córdoba CF.

Subsequently, after more than 700 official games, Roberto moved into coaching, being in charge of lowly Valencia B, Orihuela CF and UD Alzira in his native region. In the 2004–05 campaign he was one of four managers for Córdoba, who finished in 19th position and dropped down to the third division.

Roberto returned to Barcelona in the 2015 summer, in directorial capacities.

International career

Roberto earned 29 caps and scored one goal for Spain during nine years, and was included in the squad for the UEFA Euro 1984 and the 1990 FIFA World Cup tournaments. His debut came during the former's qualifying stage, in a 1–0 home win against Iceland on 27 October 1982 in which he played the full 90 minutes.

International goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1.	14 November 1990	Strahov, Prague, Czechoslovakia	Czechoslovakia	1–1	3–2	Euro 1992 qualifying

Honours

Club

Castellón

• Segunda División: 1980–81

Barcelona

• UEFA Cup Winners' Cup: 1988–89
• Copa del Rey: 1987–88, 1989–90

Country

Spain U21

• UEFA European Under-21 Championship: 1986

External links

• Roberto Fernández profile at BDFutbol
• Roberto Fernández manager profile at BDFutbol
• National team data (Spanish)
• Fernández.html Roberto Fernández Bonillo at National-Football-Teams.com
• Roberto Fernández – FIFA competition record
• CiberChe biography and stats (Spanish)