Iosu Rivas
Spanish footballer and manager
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Iosu Rivas Carranza (born 20 January 1983) is a Spanish former footballer who played as a right-back, and a current manager.
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Iosu Rivas Carranza | ||
| Date of birth | 20 January 1983 | ||
| Place of birth | San Sebastián, Spain | ||
| Height | 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position | Right-back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Real Sociedad | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2006 | Real Sociedad B | 101 | (0) |
| 2006–2007 | Cartagena | 30 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | Pontevedra | 16 | (0) |
| 2008–2009 | Ciudad Santiago | 23 | (0) |
| 2009–2010 | Amurrio | ||
| Total | 170 | (0) | |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2013–2014 | Real Sociedad (youth) | ||
| 2014–2015 | Berio (assistant) | ||
| 2016–2018 | Real Sociedad (youth) | ||
| 2018–2022 | Real Sociedad C (assistant) | ||
| 2022–2025 | Real Sociedad B (assistant) | ||
| 2025 | Real Sociedad B | ||
| 2025– | Real Sociedad (assistant) | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Playing career
Rivas was born in San Sebastián, Gipuzkoa, Basque Country, and was a youth product of hometown side Real Sociedad. Promoted to the reserves in Tercera División in 2002,[1] he was a regular starter during the season as the side achieved promotion to Segunda División B.[2] He left the club in January 2006, after failing to make a breakthrough in the first team, and moved to fellow third division side Cartagena.
Rivas played in the third and fourth divisions in the following years, representing Pontevedra, Ciudad Santiago[3] and Amurrio, retiring with the latter in 2010 at the age of 27.
Coaching career
After retiring, Rivas returned to his first club Real Sociedad, working in the Juvenil B squad (named Easo) before becoming an assistant of Iñigo Cortés at farm team Berio in 2014.[4] In 2015, he moved to China to work in the methodology of a project to improve the country's footballing infrastructure,[5] before returning to his home country in the following year to become Mikel Ferradas' assistant at the Txuri-urdin's Infantil side.[6]
In July 2018, Rivas was appointed manager of the Infantil Txiki squad of Real Sociedad,[7] but left the side in December to join Sergio Francisco's staff in the C-team, as his assistant.[8] He followed Sergio Francisco to the B's in 2022,[9] before becoming the manager of the reserve side on 25 April 2025, after Sergio Francisco was promoted to the first team.[10]
On 23 June 2025, after leading Sanse back to Segunda División after a three-year absence, Rivas left the role to join Sergio Francisco's staff in the first team, again as his assistant.[11] He left the club on 13 December, after the manager's dismissal.[12]
Managerial statistics
- As of 23 June 2025
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | Ref | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | |||||
| Real Sociedad B |  |
25 April 2025 | 23 June 2025 | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 50.00 | [13] |
| Total | 8 | 4 | 2 | 2 | 11 | 7 | +4 | 50.00 | — | |||