Málaga has made official the signing of Natxo González (Vitoria, 19-7-1966) as the new coach until the end of the season. There is an option for yet another campaign. He is a technician with extensive experience. He managed to ascend with Alavés to the Second Division after rescuing him from a tremendous period of destruction, the work and grace of Dimitri Piterman.
After passing through the Mendizorroza club, he trained Reus, with whom he also achieved a historic promotion to the silver division. From there to Zaragoza (where it coincided with Aleix Febas) Y sportsor. Hence, all Tondela from Portugal and a brief stay in Bolivar from Bolivia. He is a coach with a reputation for being orderly in his approaches, with a lot of grit and discipline and who usually plays in a diamond.
Natxo is expected to conduct his first work session this Friday where he will make contact with who his new players will be. On Sunday he will sit on the malaguista bench in Anduva against Mirandés.
The Basque trainer takes over from José Alberto López, who was dismissed from his duties due to the poor run of results that the team was going through and, above all, to the animosity that the stands professed towards him almost from the first moment his landing was made official. The tremendous anger that La Rosaleda took after the tremendous win against Ibiza (0-5) ended up passing sentence JAL was dismissed despite having another year of contract.
In this way, Natxo González becomes the fifth coach of Málaga since returning to the Second Division in 2017-18. Juan Ramón Muñiz, Víctor Sánchez del Amo, Sergio Pellicer and the aforementioned José Alberto López pe have preceded him in the position. During these days the training sessions have been directed by Juan Francisco Funes and Francis Bravo, who are the coaches of Atlético Malagueño, a subsidiary team that plays in Tercera RFEF.