Juan Ignacio Martínez ‘JIM’ will not continue as coach of Real Zaragoza after the club has decided not to extend the relationship with the coach from Alicante, as well as with his second Juan Manuel Guerrero and the physical trainer Javi López, who expired on the 30th of June.
“From Real Zaragoza we want to express our deep gratitude to our coach and coaching staff for their work and great dedication. Thank you and good luck, JIM,” the Aragonese club said in its official media.
Juan Ignacio Martínez’s stage in Zaragoza began on December 14, 2020 with the aim of achieving a permanence that had become very expensive in a campaign in which the main objective was to have options to fight for promotion to the highest category. .
JIM came to a team that was in the penultimate position in the table and that was leaking everywhere, threatening to lose the category.
After 10 wins and 7 draws in his first 22 games, he managed to certify continuity in the silver category of Spanish football.
This season, Juan Ignacio Martínez has completed the campaign with 12 wins, 20 draws and 10 losses. Once again, the goal was to get into the promotion promotion, something that soon went awry and for many days the team fought again not to fall into the pit of the 1st RFEF.
The reaction in the final part of the second round allowed us to finish without stress but very far, again, from the goal set, although this goal, in recent campaigns, seems more sentimental than logical because the ‘blanquillo’ team finished this season being the nineteenth budget of the category, something that does not seem to square with the logic of a promotion if it is not focused more than from the prism of the weight of the club’s history.
In total, JIM has managed Real Zaragoza in 66 League games plus five Cup games.
The new general director of the club, Raúl Sanllehí, has valued JIM’s career in the Aragonese team and has shown “a marked feeling of gratitude” to Juan Ignacio “for his work and professionalism both in all the levels that make up Real Zaragoza and in the Zaragoza fans themselves, and that in today’s football is not easy to achieve”.
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“In these weeks I have also witnessed first-hand the commitment and dedication he has shown to this club. That is why I only have words of gratitude for him and I wish him the best of luck in his next professional challenges”, he expressed.
Miguel Torrecilla, sports director of the club, has also valued the work of the coach from Alicante: “I have known Juan Ignacio for a long time and he has always shown his professionalism and high level as a coach. Since we arrived in Zaragoza he became a leader for our dressing room. I wish him the best in his new stage, thanking him for all the effort he has made for Zaragoza”.
