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Iñaki Caña
Spanish football player and coach (born 1975) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Iñaki Caña Pavón (Spanish pronunciation: [iˈɲaki ˈkaɲa paˈβon]; born 19 September 1975) is a Spanish retired footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and is currently the goalkeeping coach of Premier League club Arsenal.
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Playing career
Born in Barcelona, Catalonia, Caña came through the youth ranks of local side Barcelona.[3] He then played for Barcelona C – a reserve team of the Spanish giants – in Segunda División B, but never made a first-team appearance.[1][2] After spending one year at Terrassa and two seasons at Yeclano, Caña retired from the game in 1999.[1][2]
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Caña created his own goalkeeper academy in Barcelona in 2013.[3] From July 2015 to January 2017, he worked as goalkeeping coach at Sabadell in the third tier of Spanish football.[1][3] Afterwards, Caña joined Danish side Nordsjælland,[1] helping them finish third in the 2017–18 Superliga.[3]
Brentford
In June 2018, Caña moved to England as first-team goalkeeping coach of then-Championship club Brentford.[3] In the 2018–19 season, he shared the same office with set-piece coach Nicolas Jover,[4] who would join Premier League club Arsenal in July 2021.[5][6]
Caña played a major part in Spanish goalkeeper David Raya's transfer from Blackburn Rovers to Brentford in the summer of 2019.[7] He left his role of first-team goalkeeping coach in December 2019, and was replaced by Andy Quy.[8] Caña and Raya remained friends,[7] and the latter went on to share the 2019–20 Championship Golden Glove award with Millwall goalkeeper Bartosz Białkowski,[9][10] and helped the Bees get promoted to the Premier League in the following season via the play-offs.[11]
Arsenal
On 20 December 2019, Arsenal appointed former club captain Mikel Arteta – who was 37 years old then and had never managed before – as the new head coach.[12][13][14] Four days later, Caña was appointed as goalkeeping coach at Arsenal, with assistant coaches Albert Stuivenberg and Steve Round also joining Arteta's backroom staff.[15][16] They led the team to a record-extending 14th FA Cup win on 1 August 2020, beating Chelsea 2–1 at Wembley Stadium.[17][18] Caña was also part of Arteta's coaching team that guided the Gunners to win the 2020 FA Community Shield on penalties against Liverpool on 29 August 2020[19][20] and win the 2023 FA Community Shield on penalties against Manchester City on 6 August 2023.[21][22]
Arsenal tried to sign David Raya in 2020 and 2021 at Caña's insistence, but they failed.[7][11][23] Caña was a key figure in Raya's successful loan move from Brentford to Arsenal in the summer of 2023.[7][11] Raya claimed the Premier League Golden Glove award in his debut campaign with the Gunners,[24][25] then completed his permanent move to Arsenal in July 2024.[26][27] In an exclusive interview with Sky Sports on 14 August 2024, Raya credited Caña for the role he played in his development at both Brentford and Arsenal.[28][29]
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