MADRID, 27 Dic. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Canary Islands coach Miguel Ángel Ramírez became the new coach of Real Zaragoza this Friday, a club with which he reached an agreement for the remainder of the season and the following season, as confirmed by the club itself in a statement.
“Real Zaragoza has reached an agreement with Miguel Ángel Ramírez so that the Canarian coach becomes the new coach of the Blanquilo team for the remainder of the season and one more,” the entity announced on its website.
The one from Las Palmas de Gran Canaria will work at the club alongside Endika Gaviña (second coach), Cristóbal Fuentes (physical trainer) and Beñat Labaien (assistant coach), who will complete the new coaching staff.
Ramírez now lands on the La Romareda bench after a stay in Qatar and after having led Real Sporting de Gijón to compete in the playoffs for promotion to LaLiga EASports last season.
He has a degree in Teaching and a degree in Physical Education and already during his university years he had his first connection with international football, since in the last year of his degree he went to Greece as Erasmus and collaborated with Manolo Jiménez on a project for youth football. AEK Athens.
After passing through Vitoria-Gasteiz and the ASPIRE Academy, which he arrived at the hands of Roberto Olabe, current sports director of Real Sociedad, in 2018 he was appointed head of sports strategy at Independiente del Valle, precisely taking over from the position himself. Olabe.
In May 2019 he took over as coach of the Ecuadorian team and began a successful stage that led him to win the Copa Sudamericana that year, leaving Corinthians on the way (semifinals) and beating Colón in the final.
After stints in Brazil (Internacional de Porto Alegre) and the United States (Charlotte FC), Sporting gave him the opportunity to return to the Spanish league to save the team in the final stretch of the 2022-23 season. Already in the 2023-24 season he led the Asturian team to play in promotion playoffs in which they lost in the semifinals against RCD Espanyol, a team that would finally be promoted.
After leading Al-Wakrah in Qatar, Miguel Ángel Ramírez now arrives at Real Zaragoza for this second round of the championship, leading the team for the first time as they return to work next Monday, December 30. It will be presented to the media that same day at 7:30 p.m.
The Canarian coach takes charge of Zaragoza when it is eleventh in the table with 29 points, just 4 away from the playoff places, although with only one victory in the last eight league games.