Levante: Javi Calleja says goodbye to Levante after his dismissal: “We were very surprised”

ANDl already a former coach belonging I raised Javi Calleja admits that his dismissal as coach of Granota had “very surprised”, although he respects her “totally”. The Madrid coach learned early on Monday morning that Board of Directors of the Barcelona Club

-met urgently and some of its members were connected electronically -decided to refuse their services after the team reached three wins V last 16 games.

We were not allowed to complete the work, the team is in a non-threatening position (three points from the playoffs).

Lane He said goodbye to the fans I raised with a letter that he published on his social networks and did not miss the opportunity to comment on his dismissal: “In our opinion (including the coaching staff), the team is not in an alarming position (three points behind the team). playoffs)” and adds that during this series of negative results he played “very good” games. In addition, he recalls the refereeing decisions that influenced the development and outcome of the last games: “(The team) was harmed by aspects that we cannot control.” “The locker room is the team and we are confident that we will see the season through to the end, achieving our goals,” he says.

Lane Remember also that it is easy in the summer, after the failure of not being promoted at the last second of the match with Alaves, would have been to leave the bench: “In the summer the easiest thing would have been not to continue, but we did not want to leave Barceo in difficult times and decided to continue despite all the difficulties.” Actually, Lane clings to the consultant’s words Maribel Vilaplana -later confirmed by the CEO Jose Danvila– in which in September he explained what the club’s goal was: “The change of course at the economic level in the project after last year’s refusal to promote put us in a very delicate situation, and thoughts of promotion were more an illusion than a commitment.”

“Within the limitations, we are, of course, a more than competitive group, and we showed this against all our opponents, but we did not manage to complete our job,” laments the coach. from the Pilar area.