Carles Cuadrat

Born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Cuadrat played for various clubs in the Spanish second division. He joined La Masia at age of ten in 1978. He played for all the Barcelona youth teams between 1978 and 1988. Cuadrat was also part of the Barcelona side that won the U19 Spanish Cup in 1986 and 1987. In 1988, Cuadrat played for Barcelona's first team in couple of friendlies under then head coach Luis Aragones, alongside the likes of Gary Lineker and Bernd Schuster at the Camp Nou. He played fourteen times for Spanish national youth teams (U15 & U18) during his youth years most notably finishing third in the 1985 UEFA European Under-16 Championship. Cuadrat played for Catalonian clubs Barcelona B, Gavà and Sabadell in the Segunda División B between 1988 and 1998. With his playing career cut short by injury in 1998 at the age of 30, Cuadrat began working as a Physical Coach for the Barcelona Youth Academy.

During his second stint as a player at Gavà, he also worked as director at Gavà Youth Academy between 1995 and 1998. In 1998, he joined the Barcelona under–15 team as assistant and physical coach under Albert Benaiges. He worked as coach and physical trainer for various Barcelona youth teams in years followed. In 2009, Cuadrat joined former Barcelona manager Frank Rijkaard's technical staff as a physical trainer at the Turkish giants Galatasaray. He was also in the technical staff Rijkaard at Saudi Arabia between 2011 and 2013. In 2014, when Albert Roca, who was assistant coach to Frank Rijkaard at Galatasaray and Saudi Arabia, became manager of El Salvador, he enlisted service of Cuadrat as assistant coach. Cuadrat, 54, began his coaching career in India in 2016 as the Assistant Coach of Bengaluru FC (BFC). He moved to then I-League side Bengalaru, who moved to the Indian Super League in 2017, with Roca in 2016 as an assistant coach. During his two-year stint, the club won the Federation Cup in 2017, Super Cup in 2018 apart from being the first Indian side to reach the AFC Cup final in 2016. On 29 December 2017 Carles Cuadrat parted ways with the club by mutual consent owing to health concerns. After Albert Roca's departure as head coach at the end of 2017–18 season, Bengaluru appointed Cuadrat as head coach for 2018–19 season. He led them to their maiden Indian Super League title in his first season as head coach. Having won the 2018–19 Indian Super League final 1–0…

Player

Spain U16

UEFA European Under-16 Championship third-place: 1985

Manager

Bengaluru

Indian Super League: 2018–19 East Bengal

Super Cup: 2024 Durand Cup runner-up: 2023