Ernesto Valverde also appears on stage in Athletic’s election campaign. The Gasteiz coach, who has not trained since he was dismissed at Barça, appears as an alternative to the bench of the Atletico men’s first team for the candidacies of Jon Uriarte and Ricardo Barkala. The first of them will announce his sports project today, although from his working group they assured late in the afternoon that they will not make the name of his coach official until Wednesday.
Valverde has already trained Athletic in two different stages. The first of them, after going through the lower categories of the Bilbao club and even being second to Txetxu Rojo, was during the 2003-04 and 2004-05 seasons. Later, with Urrutia as president, he repeated his experience at the Bilbao club from the 2013-14 to 2016-17 campaign. After his dismissal from the rojiblanco team, Txingurri signed as coach of Barça, a club in which he remained from the 2017-18 season to 2019-20, although he was dismissed in the middle of the campaign.
Valverde’s name appears on the rojiblanco electoral horizon on the same day that Iñaki Arechabaleta, the third candidate for Athletic’s presidency, has made official the signing of Bielsa as coach for the next two seasons if he is elected at the polls.
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