BarcelonaJonatan Giráldez will not continue as Barça coach. The Galician coach will leave the bench of the Johan Cruyff stadium at the end of the season and will not renew the contract that ends on June 30 of next year, as he advanced Relief. The champion of the last Barça Champions League has already communicated his decision to the board, the coaching staff and the players.
Giráldez has been mulling over his departure from Sant Joan Despí for some time. According to ARA, this thought comes from months before Markel Zubizarreta, the former sports director of the women’s Barça, left the club this September. He has doubts about the team’s future, the same ones that Zubizarreta had. The coach of Vigo is skeptical that the numerous renovations that Marc Vivés, the new sports director, is pending, can be carried out, and that Joan Laporta’s management is committed to women’s football beyond this season. . Alexia Putellas, Mapi León, Mariona Caldentey, Sandra Paños, Lucy Bronze, Marta Torrejón and Asisat Oshoala end their contracts on June 30. At the moment, of the footballers whose relationship with the club expires in half a year, only Patri Guijarro has renewed.
Giráldez’s decision, as reported by theSport, there is no turning back. It is an irrevocable step and, unless there is an unexpected twist of the script, the club will not even have the possibility to make a counter offer. For this reason, the technician wanted to warn in time. There are more than six months left on his contract and the 32-year-old coach, who has never complained about it publicly, does not want to leave the board with little room for maneuver to find a replacement.
The United States have their focus on Barça
In the information you posted Relief it is explained that there is a club from the NWSL, the highest category of American football, that wants to hire Giráldez. The United States league, according to ARA, has an interest in everything that smells of Barça. The Blaugrana players and coaches are very popular on the other side of the planet. Precisely, the coach of Barça before Giráldez, Lluís Cortés, who has just become the new coach of the women’s team of Saudi Arabia, was tempted by teams from that country. And the two-time Ballon d’Or Alexia Putellas is also behind the interest of NWSL teams, which can currently afford financially superior offers to those of the Catalan club, which is going through a very delicate stage in terms of numbers. The women’s signings and renewals also count in the fair play economic of the male.
The coach of the second Champions League
After the farewell of Cortés in the summer of 2021, Giráldez, who was part of the coaching staff of the balaguerí, made the leap as first coach. With more than 100 games under his belt in three seasons, the Vigo man has won everything with Barça: two leagues, a Copa de la Reina, two Spanish Super Cups and the Champions League won in June in Eindhoven. It has also taken part in other historic milestones, such as the historic world attendance record for a women’s football match that was achieved in the Barça-Wolfsburg first leg of the 2021-2022 Champions League semi-finals, when 91,648 people attended they gathered at Camp Nou. Giráldez already knows that he will be remembered at Can Barça. And, starting next summer, he wants to continue making his mark elsewhere.
2023-12-15 13:50:56
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