By Edgardo Avelar
Nov 28, 2024, 9:50 PM EST
The directive of the Chivas del Guadalajara They are about to fine-tune the last details to hire the Spanish technical director Óscar García Junyent as their next coach for the Clausura 2025 tournament in order to reorganize what the Argentine Fernando Gago and his replacement could not do. Arturo Ortega.
After the tough elimination at the hands of their staunch rival Atlas to reach a place in the play-in, The owner of Chivas Amaury Vergara instructed the Spanish managers Fran Pérez and Juan Carlos Martínez to find the best coach who can enhance the philosophy of the red and white team that has not been able to win the Mexican soccer title for seven years.
Once eliminated, Chivas thanked Mexican Arturo Ortega 24 hours after the defeat with Atlas which was the negative culmination of a season that began with the best omens under the orders of the Spanish Fernando Gago, but that upon his departure to Boca Juniors the entire panorama changed and left the Sacred Flock breathless that unfortunately interim coach Arturo Ortega could not achieve the qualification.
For this reason, several options were analyzed, including Frank Rijkaard, Albert Celades, Javi Gracia and the one that is assured was the chosen one Óscar García Junyet, who trained as a coach at the head of the Barcelona youth team and who has had a career that includes Olympiacos of Greece, Celta de Vigo, among others.
The arguments for hiring Óscar García
According to the versions that have been handled around the apparent signing of Óscar García, it is that he is a coach with an offensive project and with management of the quarry to be able to exploit the squad entirely of Mexican players that manages the Sacred Flock.
García Junyent is a 51-year-old technician and that as a player he had a career in Barcelona B, Barcelona, Valencia, Espanyol de Barcelona and Lleida that allowed him upon his retirement to have the opportunity to direct Barca Juvenil.
From there he had a tour of the following teams: Brighton, Watford, Olympiacos, Celta de Vigo, Salzburg and Reims, where as his greatest achievement he has a league title in Austrian football and another in the Cup in the same Austrian football.
His last reference on the bench was Oud-Heverlee Leuven in the Jupiter Pro League in Belgium, where he directed 44 games where he recorded 13 victories, 15 draws and 16 losses.
A long journey
It was assured that Óscar García has been followed by Chivas for 10 years, but for different reasons his arrival in Mexican soccer could never be finalized, until now the Spanish directors of the Rebaño Sagrado Fran Pérez and Juan Carlos Martínez were finally able to finalize his arrival.
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