He Leganes has reached an agreement to incorporate Asier Garitano as the new coach of the cucumber team after yesterday fire José Luis Martí, the coach who had started the season. The announcement was made official early in the afternoon shortly after the coach signed his new contract at the Butarque Sports Facility, from where he has started his first training session at the Butarque Stadium. Signature until 2022 with an option for one more year in case of promotion to First. It will be presented this Thursday at 1:00 p.m. The signature came shortly after Martí and his coaching staff said goodbye to the players and signed their settlement in Butarque.
As AS reported yesterday, there were advanced negotiations. Garitano has already been this morning in Leganes. It has passed the PCR that LaLiga requires before starting training. The protocol will not allow you to direct it yet, but it is hoped that tomorrow you can. For now he has had to settle for watching him from the stands. It should be remembered that the team has been off for two days. For this reason, and also to be able to adapt all the details, the squad did not return to work in the morning, but did so in the afternoon, at 5:00 p.m., and in a different setting: the Butarque Municipal Stadium.
The club does not want prying eyes that can see from close points what happens in that first session. In Butarque privacy is absolute, something that does not happen like this at ID Butarque, its training center. Also the distance is greater and allows the follow-up of the training without any risk.
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Objective: tying the play-off minimum
The objective of Garitano In the remainder of the season it will be to try for promotion, but in the team's current situation (eleven points away from direct promotion, sixth tied with seventh) the first step will be to secure the play-off.
In addition, the club works at full speed to analyze the possible needs that may arise in the remaining five days of the market. It will be the time you will have Garitano to prepare your redebut with the pepineros. The team will play matchday 23 against Lugo in Butarque on Monday, February 1 at 7:00 p.m.
Garitano will not reach only Butarque. Will accompany you Miguel Perez, your physical trainer. Miguel was part of the staff of Garitano during his years in the Leganes and later accompanied him in the projects of the Real Sociedad and Alavés. In fact, Perez I was already part of the Leganes when the pepineros signed Garitano in 2013, even in Second B. In his case, he joined a year earlier as a member of the blue and white subsidiary. The rest of the coaching staff will be defined when the signing becomes official.