ElPozo fires Javi Rodriguez and prepares Fuentes’ return from Japan | Relief

Morning of the Long Knives at the Palacio de los Deportes in Murcia. ElPozo announced at 16:59 the sudden dismissal of Javi Rodriguez. (Santa Coloma de Gramanet, Barcelona, ​​March 26, 1974). Catalan coach leaves after a year and a half without a title and leaving the ham in third position in the First Division and qualifying for the Copa del Rey.

The defeat on the last day of the League against Jimby Cartagena (2-3), as well as the elimination of the Spanish Cup in January against the melon team (5-0) accelerated the development of events with direct intervention of ElPozo owner Tomas Fuertes to make emergency decisions after six seasons without winning a title and trying to avoid a second campaign without a finals appearance, something that hasn’t happened in 21 years.

As Onda Regional announced and Relevo was able to confirm:Tomás Fuertes moved from the Alama plant to the Palacio de los Deportes with President José Antonio Bolarín.

around 13:00. Murcian businessman held an emergency meeting with the players, while Javi Rodriguez held a press conference before the match against Cordoba, a World Heritage Site.

After 15:00, Tomas Fuertes personally informed the Catalan coach of his dismissal. He arrived at Grana in the summer of 2022 from Industrias Santa Coloma to replace Diego Giustozzi after four years in charge of the Argentine.

Javi Rodriguez’s contract expired on June 30 and a continuation was ruled out. team of Murcia. His name will still be President Joan Laporta’s favorite if Jesus Velasco leaves for the national team. His second coach, Dani Martinez, together with the Brazilian Vinicius Teixeira (sports coordinator), will lead the team this Sunday in Cordoba.

The dismissal of Javi Rodriguez is a completely atypical circumstance in El Pozo Murcia. The Barcelona coach became the third coach to be sacked in the amateur team’s 35-year history. It has been 25 seasons since Grana went without a coach until his contract expired.

Previously, Only Paco Garcia left his post early in 1998 and was replaced by José Maria Ferrandez. Before, In 1995, Eduardo García Belda, Miki, was also fired. after winning the club’s first amateur title, the Copa del Rey, as host and leader. His replacement on the bench was the Brazilian Tashinha.

Relevo can confirm that ElPozo Murcia is already working on the return of Juan Francisco Fuentes (Murcia, September 12, 1979). Murcia’s coach was already considered in 2002, but in the end the club chose Javi Rodriguez. That same year, he resumed his career with Japanese team Nagoya Oceans, where he won the Japanese F-League five times in a row. His replacement will be another Spaniard, Imanol Arregui (former Osasuna Magna).

Proud of its origins from the Infante region, He knows the amateur club very well, where at the age of 18 he began coaching the children’s team and has 13 seasons in the lower categories. As a result, he headed a subsidiary in the Second Division and He left in 2013 to join Kuwait sports club Kazma, with whom he won the league.

Sources He also had two experiences in the Italian Serie A for Luparense and Acqua&Sapone. He then spent two seasons in Belgium with Halle Huijk, now Anderlecht, with whom he won the League and Cup titles. In 2019, he signed a contract with Nagoya Oceans, where he achieved excellence.

His contract with the Japanese champions expires next month and ElPozo Murcia’s idea is to try to speed up his arrival so he can lead the team in the Copa del Rey.which will take place in Cartagena and in which on March 22 his opponent in the quarterfinals will again be Jimbi, his regional enemy. 11 years later, Fuentes is preparing to return home.