Guti (footballer)
José María Gutiérrez Hernández (Torrejón de Ardoz, Madrid, October 31, 1976), better known as Guti, is a Spanish former soccer player and coach. Since June 2020 he has been free after resigning from the Unión Deportiva Almería.
As a footballer he played mainly as a midfielder, although he occupied other midfielder and even forward positions. Trained as a junior in the Real Madrid youth academy, he made his debut with the first team at the age of 19. He spent 18 seasons at the club, 15 of which were part of the Madrid first team, with which he won 15 titles. In 2010 he joined Turkish club Beşiktaş, announcing his retirement as a footballer in 2012.
He was an absolute international with Spain (1999–2011), with whom he played thirteen games and scored three goals. With the lower categories of the national team, he won the 1995 U-18 European Championship and the 1998 U-21 European Championship.
Career as a footballer
Lower categories
José María Gutiérrez "Guti", entered the youth ranks of Real Madrid when he was nine years old. In the 1995/96 season he was part of the Real Madrid 'B' squad, which was then active in the Second Division. He debuted with the first team in the First Division on December 2, 1995. After his debut with the first team, he alternated his presence in both categories.
=== Real Madrid . ===
Guti made his debut in an official competition match with the Real Madrid Club de Fútbol first team, led by Jorge Valdano, on December 2, 1995 against Sevilla Fútbol Club at the Santiago Bernabéu Stadium, with a 4-win victory. 1.
During the first years, Guti was a squad player and did not have many minutes. His situation changed with the arrival of Vicente del Bosque to the first team bench as white coach, in the 1999/2000 season, to replace the dismissed John Benjamin Toshack. His playing minutes and his performances as a starter increased. He debuted with the Spanish team on May 5, 1999 in a match against Croatia, with a 3–1 victory.
In the following campaign, the 2000/01 season, Guti established himself in the first team. Due to an injury to Fernando Morientes, Guti had to occupy the forward position and managed to score 14 goals, which contributed to the club's twenty-eighth league title.
In 2001, with the arrival of Zinedine Zidane to the team, which removed him from the starting lineup, Guti was relegated to a secondary role. He did not play a single minute in Madrid's victory in the 2002 Champions League final, the most important trophy won in the era in which Guti coincided with the French galactico. On the occasions he has to play, Vicente del Bosque and later Carlos Queiroz place him in places other than his usual position, such as midfielder. Signings like David Beckham make him consider leaving Real Madrid, but with the departure of other players, Guti gets more playing time from 2003 onwards, although it coincides with a bad period for Real Madrid in which he failed to raise any trophy.
In 2006, with the retirement of Zidane, Guti returned to the midfield, becoming the brain of the white team in Fabio Capello's system. Guti's vision of the game allows for unclogging difficult matches that are resolved on the Madrid side; for example, the victory against Sevilla FC in the 2006-07 League, with which Real Madrid beat the Sevilla team with a comeback (3-2), to finally catch up with Barcelona in the standings and win the League championship.
With the arrival of Bernd Schuster to the bench in the 2007/08 season, Guti became the competition's top assist player with 18 assists on goals. That season, Guti played what is possibly the best game of his career, with two goals and five assists in a 7-0 victory against Real Valladolid. The following 2008/09 season, Guti scored Real Madrid's 5,000th goal in the League, on September 14, 2008.
In his last season 2009/10 he alternated good games, such as the comeback against Sevilla FC or brilliant plays such as his backheel assist to Karim Benzema in Riazor, with several injuries of all kinds. Two days before the game against FC Barcelona, Guti announced that he would not continue at Real Madrid and that he wanted to spend the two years of football he had left in a foreign team. On July 25, 2010, he announced his departure from Real Madrid, after 15 years in the first team. team, in a press conference in which he assured that "a very glorious stage for me is coming to an end. It has been very nice, but we must give way to young people. "I am very proud to have been here." He played a total of 542 games with the Madrid club in which he scored 77 goals and became captain.
Beşiktaş J. K.
On July 26, 2010, one day after saying goodbye to Real Madrid, the agreement between the player and Beşiktaş JK was made official. The Madrid footballer signed a two-season contract with the Turkish team, at a rate of 2.7 million euros per season. His official debut with Beşiktaş took place on August 15 against Bucaspor and Guti was instrumental in the victory (0-1), as he provided an assist to Brazilian striker Bobô to score the only goal of the match.
His first official goal for the Turkish team took place on August 26 during the second leg of the UEFA Europa League qualifying round against HJK Helsinki, when he scored the second of the four goals that Beşiktaş scored against the club. Finnish. Guti's first goal in the Turkish league was scored on August 29 against Karabükspor after winning 1-4. In May 2011 he won the only club title that he had not won with Real Madrid, the Cup, beating Istanbul Buyuksehir on penalties.
On November 15, 2011, he terminated his contract with the Turkish team due to the little participation he had had during the season (only three games, one in the league and two in the UEFA Europa League). On September 21, 2012, he announced that, despite having received offers from some clubs, he was definitively retiring from football.
National team
International since the age of 17 with the youth categories of the Spanish national team, he was proclaimed European under-18 champion in 1995 and European under-21 champion in 1998. His debut with the senior Spanish team took place on May 5 1999, at the inauguration of the La Cartuja Stadium in Seville, with a 3–1 victory against Croatia. He totaled thirteen games and three goals between 1999 and 2005. Despite being one of the Spanish players of his time with the most technique and talent, he was never called up to play in a final phase of the world or European championship with his national team.
- Participation in final phases
| Championship | Selection | Headquarters | Outcome |
|---|---|---|---|
| European Sub-18 1995 | Spain (sub-18) |  Greece
| Champion |
| European Sub-21, 1998 | Spain (sub-21) |  Romania
| Champion |
Career as a coach
Training
He made his debut in the 2013-14 season, as coach of the first junior team of the Real Madrid Football Club, where he remained for three years. In the 2016-17 season he debuted as coach of the first youth team, winning the national double of the category, becoming champion of the Division of Honor (group V) and later of the Champions Cup, in addition to winning the Copa del Rey Juvenil. on June 25, 2017.
Almeria
At dawn on November 5, 2019, he was announced as the new coach of the Unión Deportiva Almería. Subsequently, and after an irregular time with the Indálico team, he was officially dismissed on June 26, 2020.
Statistics
Clubs
Updated to end of sports career.
| Club | Season | Div. | League | Cups (1) | International (2) | Total (3) | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Part. | Goles | Assist. | Part. | Goles | Assist. | Part. | Goles | Assist. | Part. | Goles | Assist. | ||||
| Real Madrid C. F. "C." |  1994-95
| 2.a B | 12 | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 12 | 3 | 0 | |
| 1995-96
| 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 1 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total club | 13 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 3 | 0 | |||
| Real Madrid C. F. "B" | 1995-96
| 2. a | 26 | 11 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 26 | 11 | 0 | |
| Real Madrid C. F. | 1995-96
| 1. a | 9 | 1 | - | - | - | - | - | - | - | 9 | 1 | 0 | |
| 1996-97
| 14 | - | - | 3 | - | - | - | - | - | 17 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 1997-98
| 17 | 1 | - | 3 | - | - | 2 | - | - | 22 | 1 | 0 | |||
| 1998-99
| 28 | 1 | - | 4 | 2 | - | 4 | - | - | 36 | 3 | 0 | |||
| 1999-00
| 28 | 6 | - | 4 | 1 | - | 13 | 1 | 1 | 45 | 8 | 1 | |||
| 2000-01
| 32 | 14 | - | - | - | - | 14 | 4 | 1 | 46 | 18 | 1 | |||
| 2001-02
| 29 | 4 | 1 | 8 | 6 | - | 9 | 3 | - | 46 | 13 | 1 | |||
| 2002-03
| 34 | 4 | 3 | 3 | 2 | - | 17 | 7 | 2 | 54 | 13 | 5 | |||
| 2003-04
| 26 | 2 | 1 | 10 | 1 | - | 9 | - | - | 45 | 3 | 1 | |||
| 2004-05
| 31 | - | 6 | - | - | - | 8 | - | - | 39 | 0 | 6 | |||
| 2005-06
| 33 | 4 | 2 | 4 | - | - | 7 | 2 | - | 44 | 6 | 2 | |||
| 2006-07
| 30 | 1 | 7 | - | - | - | 7 | - | 2 | 37 | 1 | 9 | |||
| 2007-08
| 32 | 3 | 15 | 6 | 1 | 1 | 7 | - | 2 | 45 | 4 | 18 | |||
| 2008-09
| 18 | 3 | 4 | 3 | - | 1 | 6 | - | 1 | 27 | 3 | 6 | |||
| 2009-10
| 26 | 2 | 8 | 1 | - | - | 3 | 1 | 1 | 30 | 3 | 9 | |||
| Total club | 387 | 46 | 47 | 49 | 13 | 2 | 106 | 18 | 10 | 542 | 77 | 93 | |||
| Beşiktaş J. K. |  2010-11
| 1. a | 22 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 5 | 37 | 11 | 14 | |
| 2011-12
| 1 | - | - | - | - | - | 2 | 1 | - | 3 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Total club | 23 | 7 | 7 | 6 | 3 | 2 | 11 | 2 | 5 | 40 | 12 | 14 | |||
| Total career | 449 | 67 | 54 | 55 | 16 | 4 | 117 | 20 | 15 | 621 | 103 | 103 | |||
(1) It includes data from Copa del Rey, Supercopa de España (1996-10); Türkiye Kupası (2010-11). (2) It includes data from UEFA Champions League, European Super Cup, Club World Cup (1996-10); UEFA European League (2010-12). (3) It does not include data from friendly parties. | |||||||||||||||
Coach
| Club | Country | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Real Madrid (Alevín) |  Spain
| 2013 - 2016 |
| Real Madrid (Juvenil) | Spain
| 2016 - 2018 |
| Beşiktaş JK (Second Coach) | Turkey
| 2018 - 2019 |
| UD Almería | Spain
| 2019 - 2020 |
Palmarés
As a player
National Championships
| Title | Club | Year |
|---|---|---|
| League Championship | Real Madrid C. F.
| 1997 |
| Supercopa | 1997 | |
| League Championship | 2001 | |
| Supercopa | 2001 | |
| League Championship | 2003 | |
| Supercopa | 2003 | |
| League Championship | 2007 | |
| League Championship | 2008 | |
| Supercopa | 2008 | |
| Cup | Beşiktaş J. K.
| 2011 |
International championships
| Title | Club | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Champions League | Real Madrid C. F.
| 1998 |
| Intercontinental | 1998 | |
| Champions League | 2000 | |
| Champions League | 2002 | |
| European Super Cup | 2002 | |
| Intercontinental | 2002 |
As a coach
National Championships
| Title | Club | Year |
|---|---|---|
| Youth Honor Division | Real Madrid Juvenil
| 2017 |
| Youth Champions Cup | 2017 | |
| Youth King Cup | 2017 |
Media
After his retirement from sports, he began in 2013 as a commentator on "Carrusel Deportivo" on Cadena SER and later as a member of the program "El Chiringuito de Jugones" on Mega. In the 2015/16 season, he commented for Antena 3, the Champions League matches played by Real Madrid.
Film and television
Guti has appeared in two films making a "cameo" of himself: "Torrente 3: El Protector", alongside Iker Casillas and Iván Helguera and in "Goal II: Living the Dream", in which the protagonist is part of the Real Madrid first team. On television, he was part of the jury of the Antena 3 program «Splash! Famosos al agua” and as an occasional collaborator in El chiringuito de Jugones.
Private life
The player was married to the former television presenter and model agency businesswoman, Arancha de Benito, between 1999 and 2009, with whom he has two children, Zayra and Aitor. Subsequently, he had a romantic relationship with the model Noelia López until October 2010, and since November 2011, he has been a partner of the Argentine presenter and model Romina Belluscio, with whom he has two children, Enzo, born in January 2013, and Romeo., born in 2021.
On November 10, 2022, his daughter announced that she is pregnant, becoming a grandfather for the first time on April 16, 2023.
Filmography
- Documentary Canal+ (28/01/2010), "Informe Robinson - 'All about Guti'" in Plus.es.
- Reporting Canal+ (28/09/2015), "Fever Maldini: 'Guti, Pure Talent'" in Plus.es