Tomorrow the new Athletic led by Jon Uriarte. With the arrival of the Biscayan businessman to the presidency of the club, the two coaches of the first teams, the director of Lezama and the head of the Women’s team, are already known, and the names of the sports director and those who will head the two departments that Your project will be completed by the Director of Performance and the Head of Sport Development and Loans.
Two home coaches will lead the first two teams. Ernest Valverde will be the coach of the men’s team in substitution of Marcellin to thus fulfill his third stage on the bench at San Mamés. Txingurri moved up from Bilbao Athletic to the first team in the 2003-04 season. He directed the lions for another campaign and then returned in the 2013-14 season. He is a trainer who ensures stability. There are the four campaigns that he was in charge of the rojiblancos after the stage of Bielsa, a very long period today in the world of football. One of his great virtues is managing a locker room. He is the coach who has managed the most games for Athletic (307), with a record of 140 wins, 69 draws and 98 losses. He has added 45% wins for six seasons.
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He left Bilbao because he had an irrefutable offer to take over Barça from Messi. There he also achieved important successes -two Leagues, a Cup and a Spanish Super Cup- but he was dismissed in January 2020, being the leader of the regularity tournament and first in his Champions group. It has been one of the most unfair decisions that are remembered lately in state football.
Iraia Iturregi will continue to lead the Women. She has been the only person who has had the consensus of the three candidates. Valverde he wished the same circumstance had occurred in the men’s first team.
Iraia Iturregi will be the Women’s coach
The one from Loiu directed the subsidiary of Reto Iberdrola and in January 2021 he made the leap to the first team. Joseba Aguirre, the Women’s sports director, trusted her as a replacement for the dismissed Ángel Villacampa due to poor results. It was difficult for him to straighten his course, but he achieved the objective of permanence to finish in eleventh position. In the 2021-22 campaign, she has had the team in the top positions of the classification with options to fight for one of the first three places that allowed them to play the Champions League next year. Already in the final stretch, her team dropped out of the European fight to finish in seventh position with 47 points, thirteen from the third place that Real Madrid has occupied.
The candidacy of Barkala opted to sign the forward Nahikari Garcia, who plays for the white team. It will be necessary to see if the new Board maintains this idea to strengthen the team.
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