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The current manager of the Spain National Team, Fernando Hierro is a retired Spanish footballer who played as a defense from 1987 to 2005, before commencing his coaching career. Along with his professional playing and coaching career, Hierro is estimated to be enjoying the net worth of $3 million currently.
Hierro was appointed as the national team coach for Spain for World Cup 2018 replacing former coach Julen Lopetegui. Despite an impressive way from the group stage to Round of 16: World Cup 2018, Spain was sent home after a defeat to Russia in the knockout stage. Let's deal with the details down there.
As of professional career of Hierro, we all are quite concerned. Hierro turning professional in football since 1987 has managed to acquire lots of fame and economic benefit with his coaching and playing career. Though Hierro's net worth is under review, he is estimated to be enjoying the net worth of $3 million as of 2018.
Currently, as the Spain National Team coach Fernando Hierro earns the annual salary of $3.43 million while the highest paid coach is Joachim Low earns the salary of $4.47 million.
CAPTION: Fernando Hierro, Spain National Team coach SOURCE: NDTV Sports Talking about Fernando Hierro's previous contracts, the full detail is not out, but it is reported that at the time of retirement on May 10, 2005, his market value was $876,783.
Soon after his retirement, serving as sporting director of the Royal Spanish Football Federation in late September 2007, Fernando Hierro later on July 10, 2014, was named assistant coach of Real Madrid, replacing Zinedine Zidane, where he earned the annual salary of $584,500.
Then the whole scenario got an upgrade after Hierro was named as the manager of Spain National Team for World Cup 2018 on June 13, 2018.
Starting his professional career with Valladolid from 1987-1989, Fernando Hierro signed with Real Madrid where he won 5 La Liga and 3 Champions League trophies with Madrid as Madrista over 14 seasons.
Then playing for Al Rayyan from 2003-2004, Hierro moved to Bolton Wanderers and retired from playing career after a season.
Here is the table of his appearances and goals.
| Year | Team | Appearances | Goals |
| 1987-1989 | Valladolid | 58 | 3 |
| 1989-2003 | Real Madrid | 439 | 102 |
| 2003-2004 | Al Rayyan | 19 | 3 |
| 2004-2005 | Bolton Wanderers | 29 | 1 |
Also, the member of Spain U-21 and Spain National Team, Hierro was capped 89 times for Spain, the record is only surpassed by Raul, David Villa, and Fernando Torres.
Having appeared 4 times in the FIFA World Cup (1990, 1994, 1998 and 2002), and 2 times in UEFA Euro (1996 and 2000).
CAPTION: Fernando Hierro in his playing career SOURCE: Pinterest Then after his retirement in 2005, Fernando Hierro presented as sporting director of the Royal Spanish Football Federation in 2007, later being appointed Malaga CF's director of football in July 2011.
After serving as assistant coach for Real Madrid from 2014 to 2017, Hierro became the manager of Spain National Team on June 13, 2018, sacking Julen Lopetegui 2 days before Spain's first match in World Cup against Portugal.
Spain, the winner of the 2010 FIFA World Cup previously made up to the quarterfinals 4-times (1934, 1986, 1994, 2022). However, this time luck didn't favor Spain as they lost to Russia in the Round of 16: World Cup 2018 in the penalty shoot-out after a 1-1 draw in 90 minutes.
Initially, Spain in the Group B, played their first match against Portugal on June 15, 2018, with a 3-3 draw, followed by their 1-0 win against Iran on June 20 and a 2-2 draw against Morocco on June 25, 2018.
CAPTION: Hierro with Spanish captain Sergio Ramos SOURCE: TNP Being the Group B's winner with 5 points ahead of Portugal, Spain headed to Super 16: Knockout stage and were to face Russia for their place in quarterfinals.
In the match against Russia, Sergei Ignashevich score for Spain in 11 minutes, however, it was equalized by Russian Artem Dyzuba's score in 41 minutes. Spain's 4-2-3-1 formation couldn't net the score in 90 minutes game despite many attempts, which led to extra-time game, but the result was same.
As the match headed to penalty-shootout, the fortune turned it's back to Spain after Spain's Koke and Iago Aspas missed penalty which was utilized by Russia with 4 shoot-outs in the net. Spain got knocked off from World Cup while Russia headed to quarterfinals.
The wait for another 4-year event continues.
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