Xavi Bartolo

Xavi Bartolo
Personal information
Full name	Xavier Bartolo Moliné
Date of birth	7 October 1968 (age 55)
Place of birth	Bellver de Cerdanya, Spain
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	Atlètic Lleida (manager)
Youth career
	Lleida
Senior career*
Years	Team
1987–1990	Lleida B
1989–1995	Lleida
1990–1991	→ Fraga (loan)
1995–1996	Levante
1996	Leganés
1996–1998	Gimnàstic
Total
Managerial career
2009	Recreativo (assistant)
2010–2011	Gimnàstic (assistant)
2011	Cartagena (assistant)
2014	EF Valls (youth)
2017–2018	Reus (assistant)
2018	Reus (interim)
2018–2019	Reus
2019	Gimnàstic
2023–	Atlètic Lleida
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Xavier "Xavi" Bartolo Moliné (born 7 October 1968) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a forward, and is the manager of CE Atlètic Lleida.

Playing career

Born in Bellver de Cerdanya, Lleida, Catalonia, Bartolo spent several campaigns with the reserves before making his first-team debut during the 1989–90 season, achieving promotion from Segunda División B. After a one-year loan to Tercera División side UD Fraga, he returned to Lleida in July 1991 and was definitely promoted to the main squad.^[1]

Bartolo made his professional debut on 1 September 1991, starting in a 0–3 Segunda División away loss against Celta de Vigo.^[2] Fourteen days later he scored his first goals in the category, netting a brace in a 3–1 win at UE Figueres.^[3]

Bartolo achieved promotion to La Liga in the 1992–93 campaign, scoring a career-best eight goals in 29 appearances. He made his first appearance in the main category on 5 September 1993, starting in a 0–1 away defeat to CD Tenerife.^[4]

Bartolo left Lleida in 1995, and signed for Levante UD in the third division. The following January, he joined second level side CD Leganés, but featured rarely.

In 1996 Bartolo agreed to a contract with Gimnàstic de Tarragona, and retired with the club in 1998 at the age of just 30.

Coaching career

In June 2009, Bartolo was named assistant of Javi López at Recreativo de Huelva,^[5] after previously working for Lleida,^[6] Hércules CF, Gimnàstic and CD Castellón as a fitness coach.^[7] He was also Luis César Sampedro's assistant at Nàstic^[8] before moving to FC Cartagena and reuniting with López.^[9]

Bartolo subsequently worked as a fitness coach for Real Murcia before being appointed manager of EF Valls' youth setup on 4 March 2014.^[10] In July, he joined CF Reus Deportiu as a fitness coach, and became the assistant manager of Aritz López Garai in 2017.^[11]

In May 2018, Bartolo replaced López Garai at the helm of Reus as the latter had a heart surgery.^[12] of On 23 June, he was definitely appointed manager.^[13] Halfway through the 2018–19 season, Bartolo, along with the rest of the Reus players and staff, left the club after it was expelled by the LFP.^[14]^[15]

On 16 May 2019, Bartolo returned to Gimnàstic after being named manager for the 2019–20 campaign.^[16] He was dismissed on 17 November, with the club having spent three weeks in the relegation zone.^[17]

Managerial statistics

As of 15 September 2019

Managerial record by team and tenure
Team	Nat	From	To	Record								Ref
Team	Nat	From	To	G	W	D	L	GF	GA	GD	Win %	Ref
Reus (interim)		2 May 2018	13 May 2018	2	1	1	0	2	1	+1	050.00	^[18]
Reus		23 June 2018	5 February 2019	23	6	6	11	19	31	−12	026.09	^[19]
Gimnàstic		17 June 2019	Present	4	1	1	2	5	8	−3	025.00	^[20]
Total				29	8	8	13	26	40	−14	027.59	—

References

^ "El Lleida se viste de gala" [Lleida dress up] (PDF) (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 20 August 1991. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
^ "Un Lleida diezmado cae en Vigo" [A ten-man Lleida fall in Vigo] (PDF) (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 2 September 1991. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
^ "El Lleida golpea al Figueres" [Lleida strike Figueres] (PDF) (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 16 September 1991. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
^ "Agustín frena a un buen Lleida" [Agustín stops a good Lleida] (PDF) (in Spanish). Mundo Deportivo. 6 September 1993. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
^ "Javi López será el entrenador del Recre para la próxima temporada" [Javi López will be the manager of Recre for the next season] (in Spanish). Marca. 16 June 2009. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
^ Visa, Lluís (8 June 2000). "Raúl, portero del Lleida, denuncia al entrenador Víctor Muñoz por agredirle en el vestuario" [Raúl, Lleida goalkeeper, complaints against the manager Víctor Muñoz for assaulting him in the dressing room]. El País (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 June 2018.
^ "Xavier Bartolo será el preparador físico del Castellón hasta final de temporada" [Xavier Bartolo will be the fitness coach of Castellón until the end of the season] (in Spanish). El Periodic. 10 February 2009. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
^ "Xavier Bartolo, renovado" [Xavier Bartolo, renewed] (in Spanish). Gimnàstic Tarragona. 6 July 2010. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
^ "FC Cartagena: Javi Manzano, nuevo segundo entrenador" [FC Cartagena: Javi Manzano, new assistant manager] (in Spanish). esFutbol. 27 December 2011. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
^ "Xavier Bartolo, nou entrenador de l'Infantil A de l'Escola Valls" [Xavier Bartolo, new manager of the Infantil A of Escola Valls] (in Catalan). El Vallenc. 4 March 2014. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
^ "Xavi Bartolo, un valor en la sombra" [Xavi Bartolo, a value in the shadows] (in Spanish). Diari de Tarragona. 1 March 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
^ "López Garai será operado del corazón" [López Garai will have heart surgery] (in Spanish). Marca. 2 May 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
^ "Xavi Bartolo, nou entrenador del CF Reus" [Xavi Bartolo, new manager of Reus] (in Catalan). CF Reus Deportiu. 23 June 2018. Retrieved 25 June 2018.
^ "Nota Informativa" [Information note]. La Liga. 18 January 2019. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
^ "Xavi Bartolo se harta: "Hasta aquí hemos llegado"". Sport (in Spanish). Retrieved 5 February 2019.
^ "Sergi Parés y Xavi Bartolo liderarán el nuevo proyecto deportivo del Nàstic" [Sergi Parés and Xavi Bartolo will lead the new sporting project of Nàstic] (in Spanish). Gimnàstic Tarragona. 16 May 2019. Retrieved 17 May 2019.
^ Morato, Nil (18 November 2019). "El Nàstic cesa a Xavi Bartolo y ficha a Toni Seligrat" [Nàstic dismiss Xavi Bartolo and sign Toni Seligrat]. Diari Més (in Catalan). Retrieved 18 November 2019.
^ "Bartolo: Xavier Bartolo Moliné". BDFutbol. Retrieved 4 December 2018.
^ "Bartolo: Xavier Bartolo Moliné". BDFutbol. Retrieved 30 November 2018.
^ "Bartolo: Xavier Bartolo Moliné". BDFutbol. Retrieved 23 June 2019.