Pere Romeu will be, if nothing changes, the next coach of the women’s FC Barcelona. This has finally been decided by the Barça sports management, as SPORT has learned, after an exhaustive casting to find the best replacement for Jonatan Giráldez.
The club He considered several options, both at home and abroad, and finally opted for a continuous bet. The two finalists for the position were the aforementioned Pere Romeu and Rafel Navarro, Giráldez’s second. And ‘Relevo’ already announced at the end of January that the first was the best positioned.
“Don’t touch what already works,” as the saying goes. And it is the strategy that has worked so well for Barça in recent years. Giráldez left Lluís Cortés’ coaching staff and the Vigo player’s successor also leaves his staff.
Romeu joined the first women’s team in the summer of 2021, when Giráldez took on the titanic challenge of directing Barça that had just won the treble. And to form his own ‘staff’, with some members also who were already with Cortés, he ‘fished’ in the Masia, because The Catalan had spent three years in men’s youth football and was soaked in the Barça DNA.
Round trip
He stood out in culé youth football as second to Sergi Milà -now coordinator of Barça 11 football-, first in Cadet B and then in Cadet A, of the 2004 generation.one of the most promising of the Masia that has seen players like Gavi, Ilias Akhomach, Aleix Garrido and Ángel Alarcón grow.
Pere Romeu in a Barça / SPORT training football match
He went on ‘Erasmus’ to Romania, he spent a year on Rubén de la Barrera’s coaching staff during his time at Viitorul, and he returned with the major challenge of being part of the coaching staff of a Barça that, since then, has won seven titles – such as the Eindhoven Champions League – and that the much-desired ‘poker’ will fight this season.
Character, personality and Barça DNA
Barça is betting on Pere Romeu for his character and personality, in addition to the experience he has already acquired in men’s youth football and which has helped him grow in the elite. Get to know the Barça game model and its idiosyncrasies up close, something key to give continuity to a sports project that has given excellent results with a unique game idea and evolved management.
Everyone who has worked with him, whether at La Masia or in the first women’s team, assures that he is “very good”, both in human treatment and at a technical-tactical level. A total success. Barça is and will continue to be in good hands.
2024-02-22 06:01:14
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