Betis officialized the hiring of Antonio Cordón, who arrives in Heliópolis as sports general manager until June 2024. Cordón, who has disassociated himself from the Federation of Ecuador, therefore signs four seasons and relieves Alexis Trujillo as head of the white-green technical secretariat. With gallons as well.
Antonio Cordón Ruiz (Badajoz, 1963) is a professor of Physical Education and a national soccer coach. He has an international Master in Sports Law and Management from ISDE. He began his career in soccer's elite as a scout at Villarreal. In the yellow club he was responsible for the technical secretariat, grassroots football and later the sports management. There he coincided precisely with what will now be his coach, Manuel Pellegrini.
In 2016 Cordón became the sports director of AS Monaco. In the Principality team, he won the Ligue 1 title and played in the Champions League semifinals. A year and a half later he joined as CEO of Hope Group. This holding of Chinese capital includes Granada, Italian Parma, Portuguese Tondela and Chinese Chongqing Lifan.