Abelardo coach Cartagena | FC Cartagena

The Asturian coach arrived in Cartagonova after his extensive experience in La Liga with Sporting, Alaves or Espanyol.

José Antonio Morga will be his second coach, Paco Imbernon will be his fitness coach and he has full confidence in the rest of the club’s coaching staff.

FC Cartagena SAD announces an agreement reached today with Abelardo Fernandez, under which the Asturian coach joins the club to lead the Albinegro first team for the 2024-2025 season. Abelardo will lead the Albinegro project from the bench in Cartagonova for a fifth consecutive campaign in the silver category of Spanish football.

Abelardo is a coach who knows this category and already knows what it means to manage prestigious teams, both in LaLiga Hypermotion and in the top category of Spanish football. He will arrive in Cartagonova together with Juan Antonio Morga, physical trainer and second coach who has already accompanied him in his performances in Vitoria and Gijon. In addition, he has the experience of training in physics Paco Imbernon, associated with Ephesus for several seasons, and a professional who also worked alongside Morga throughout his career. Likewise, Abelardo, in the meetings before his signing, expressed to the club full confidence in the names of the coaching staff that the black and white structure put on the table to have at its disposal.

His first experience on the bench was always with the Real Sporting Gijon team, which saw him grow and achieve success as a footballer. In 2008, he began his career as a coach with the Sportingguista subsidiary, the first of Abelardo’s three stints with the Asturian team. The Gijón-born coach coached the 2ªB reserve team for several years before working with Candas and Tuilla before returning to Sporting in the 2012/13 season, again to coach the second team.

After a year and a half in Pitu’s reserve team, Abelardo managed to move into the first team and made his debut as a coach in the Second Division on 05/10/2014, beating Hercules 2:1 at Molinon. Abelardo reached the playoffs for Sporting without reaching the coveted place in the top category. A fact he would achieve the following year when he completed a brilliant season with Sporting, finishing 2nd with two defeats in 42 games and achieving promotion to the First Division, which is also Sporting’s last to date. achieved.

The Asturian coach will remain in the First Division with Sporting until the middle of the 2016/2017 season. Pitu will continue his coaching career, also managing Deportivo Alaves in the First Division, whom he managed in two stages and over 80 games, and Espanyol, whom he managed in European competition. After his second stint with Vitoria, Abelardo returned to Real Sporting for the third time in the final stretch of the 2021/22 season until the end of January 2023. Thus, the Asturian gentleman spent more than 400 official matches as a coach. , has managed three different La Liga teams over the past 10 years and has played over 200 matches in professional Spanish football.

To add to Abelardo Fernandez Antunya’s coaching experience in the world of football is a brilliant career as a football player. He trained with Real Sporting’s youth team, with whom he made his First Division debut when he was just 19 years old, at the Santiago Bernabeu and against Real Madrid. After 5 seasons at Sporting, he signed a contract with Barcelona in the summer of 1994, where he would remain for 8 seasons, during which he would become a two-time champion of the Spanish League, Cup and Super Cup, as well as a Cup Winners’ Cup champion. European Cup and Super Cup. Pitu ended his career defending the Deportivo Alaves jersey in the 1st Division, in which he made a total of 358 appearances as a player and scored 24 goals.

Cartagena’s new coach was an Olympic champion and, as an international, defended the Spain senior team shirt up to 54 times and was part of the unforgettable generation that won Olympic gold for Spain in 92 Barcelona games.

From FC Cartagena, we want to thank Abelardo Fernandez Antunha for his readiness and strong commitment to the FC Cartagena project, and we wish him the best of luck in this new phase that begins today as he defends the colors of Efese from the bench.