Born in Benferri, Alicante, and 34 years old, Luis Vicente Mateo is chosen to become the next coordinator of Espanyol grassroots football. This was confirmed by AS from solvent sources after Esports Cope revealed its candidacy days ago. Except for surprise, he will replace Fran Navarro, who on May 26 announced that they will not renew a charge that expires on the 30th.
Mateo is a trusted person of the current sporting director parakeet, Francisco Joaquín Pérez Rufete, since shortly after being appointed as Valencia's general sports manager, in July 2013, he joined the club che. Until then, he trained Benferri CF, the team from his hometown, in Primera Regional. Curiously, the one who will be coordinator of the parakeet quarry she assumed the direction of the Academy just when José Ramon Alesanco left her, who in turn had been Rufete's substitute. However, and alleging a “restructuring”, it was fired in January 2019.
Degree in Physical education teaching by the University of Murcia, Mateo He has been a director of the Maccabi Haifa quarry for a year, since June 2019. If there is not a cataclysm, it is a matter of time that his landing in Espanyol is confirmed, again under the command of a Rufete who since June 7 has not only controlled professional football but the entire sports structure of the club.
It will also include an organization chart for which This Wednesday Domingo Catoira was appointed as technical secretary and Hugo Blanco as leader of the Identity area., newly created.