Miguel Ángel Lotina will train the Japanese Shimizu S-Pulse

The Spanish coach Michelangelo Lotina will leave the bench of Cherry Osaka and will go on to train the also Japanese Shimizu S-Pulse in the next season of the J-League that will start in February, according to a source close to the matter to the Kyodo agency today.

Shimizu will search a revulsive with the arrival of Lotina after finish penultimate in the japanese first division this year, in which he fired Australian Peter Cklamovski in November after scoring just three wins in the first 25 days. TO Cklamovski replaced him until the end of the season (concluded yesterday in Japan) the Japanese Hiroaki hiraoka who couldn't stop Shimizu from ending up like the most thrashed team of the J1 League with 70 goals against.

In Japan, Lotina trained to the Tokyo Verdy in the second division in 2017 and 2018 before going on to direct in the last two seasons at Cherry Osaka. Lotina, 63, managed to place the Cerezo in fifth position and turn it into the least thrashed team last year and this year he left him in fourth place, just three points from the place for the Asian Champions League play-offs.

He Biscayan technician start your career in Logroñés in the nineties before starting a journey through the benches of half Spain (he has trained Badajoz, Numancia, Osasuna, Celta, Espanyol, Real Sociedad, Deportivo and Villarreal). In 2013 went on to direct AC Omonia Cypriot to later spend two seasons in the Qatari Al-Shahania and make the leap to Japan.