Espanyol now has on the bench a maker of illusions like Diego Martínez, whose presentation and his triumphant stage in Granada have increased the confidence of the fans that next season will be better than the current one. But the parakeet coach has been an executioner for the Blue and Whites in his short sports careeras he himself referred to in the interview he gave to the club’s media and that he repeated his messages from his press conference. “Espanyol crossed paths at two important moments in my life,” he began.
The first of them occurred in 2012, when the young coach, barely 31 years old, won the Youth Champions Cup at the expense of Dani Poyatos’ Espanyol and in which a very young Joan Jordán already wore. “It was the first title,” Martinez said., who remembered that the midfielder now from Sevilla was one of the best of that parakeet team. After that, Martínez would begin a stage as second coach on the bench of the first team of Sevilla itself with technicians such as Unai Emery, while later he took the reins of the subsidiary.
The second moment was even more emotional. Diego Martínez’s Granada achieved their first victory in the top category at the RCDE Stadium against David Gallego’s Espanyol, in the fateful relegation season. A 0-3 without palliatives that began to crack the project of the technician who came from the subsidiary and to stain a season that ended in disaster. “It fills me with pride to have achieved it at the RCDE Stadium”, concluded the coach, who also managed to beat Abelardo Fernández’s men 2-1 in the second leg.
For all these reasons, Martínez, who was very spiritual in the interview, considers that “All of this has pushed me to be here, I believe that what happens in the past makes sense in the present, it was a wink of fate”. An exhibition in which the Galician coach asked people for “trust”, both “in this team and in these players”.