Idiakez leaves Villarreal to train Leganés

The CD Leganes has just announced an agreement with the technician Imanol Idiakez Barkaiztegi50 years old, for his incorporation as the new cucumber coach for the next two seasons. Idiakez arrives from Villarreal C.F.where he has worked as second technician of Unai Emery in the last two campaigns.

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Born in San Sebastian, Idiakez He trained as a footballer in the quarry of the Real societydeveloping a long career for seventeen seasons with nearly four hundred games in Second and Second B in the nineties and until 2007. The following year he began his career as a coach in the Real society B, subsequently passing through Ejido Sports Center, guijuelo y Royal Union of Irun.

Extensive track record with experience in Cyprus

In the 2013/14 season he took over the C.D. Toledomanaging to qualify for the promotion play-off, in which they would be eliminated against Lleidaa team he would lead in the following two courses, staying on the verge of promotion in 2016 when he fell in the final on penalties against Seville Athletic.

At the end of that season, Idiakez He lived his first experience away from our football when he signed for the AEK Larnaca of Cyprus, with whom he stayed for two seasons and won a Cup title, in addition to playing in the Europa League in both courses. In 2018 he would return to our League to direct the Royal Saragossa at the coach’s debut at LaLiga SmartBank, returning the following year to AEK Larnaca.

Member of the best Villarreal in history

Since 2020, or what is the same, in the last two seasons, Imanol Idiakez He has served as assistant coach of Unai Emery in the Villarreal C.F. With the castellonense painting, Idiakez he was proclaimed champion of the Europa League in the 2020/21 campaign, while in the recently completed course he was part of the coaching staff that led the yellow team to the semifinals of the Champions League.

Idiakez now begins a new stage in Butarque for the next two seasons. The date of his presentation will be announced shortly.