The ex-soccer player from Castellón Robert Fernández, 60, suffered a heart attack this Saturday. The former Valencia and Barcelona player, and sports director of the Barça club, has been successfully operated on and is out of danger. This was explained this morning by the Valencian public channel À Punt, which shared the news on its social networks along with a photograph of Fernández from the hospital.
“The first thing he did was ask about his Valencia”, they explained from this medium. A response that will not have been welcomed as the team that lost at the Mestalla against Athletic Club (1-2) in a game marked by protests against Peter Lim.
Trained at Villarreal, Fernández’s talent quickly aroused the interest of Castellón, with whom he made his debut in the Second Division, becoming a fixture in the eleven and helping the team achieve promotion to the First Division. That summer he packed his bags and signed for Valencia, the club where he would develop a large part of his career. In the club he played ten seasons divided into two stages. Although he would be at FC Barcelona, ??where he played between 1986 and 1990. where he reaped his greatest successes, raising two Copa del Rey and a European Cup Winners’ Cup.
Capped 29 times, he hung up his boots at Córdoba in 2001 and began his coaching career managing various teams in the lower categories of Valencia, as well as teams such as Córdoba, Orihuela and Alzira.
In 2015 he began his last professional adventure as sports director at Barcelona, ??under the guidance of president Josep Maria Bartomeu. He spent three seasons at the Barça entity, until 2018, when Éric Abidal took over from him.
During Fernández’s stage in the Barça offices, footballers such as Ousmane Dembélé, Philippe Coutinho or Samuel Umtiti, among others, were signed.