Sergio González, at the Ciudad Deportiva before the official announcement

Sergio González was in the sports city of El Rosal this Tuesday afternoon and had the opportunity to meet the players of the Cádiz squad, despite the fact that the club has not yet announced his hiring as a new coach after during the Tomorrow of this day, the dismissal of the previous one, Álvaro Cervera, will be announced.

The president of Cádiz, Manuel Vizcaíno, commented this Tuesday, at the press conference he offered after the dismissal of Cervera, that they were finalizing the negotiations with Sergio González to take over the team, that on Monday they had dinner with the Barcelona coach and that there was a verbal agreement, in the absence of documentation.

Although Cádiz has not yet officially announced his incorporation or the duration of his contract, the coach went to the club’s sports city to meet his new players.

González, 45, was without a team after leaving Valladolid at the end of last season, in which he could not avoid the relegation of the Castilian team to LaLiga SamartBank.

The first game of the new Cádiz coach will be next Saturday against Real Sporting de Gijón, at the El Molinón-Quini stadium in the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey, and his debut in LaLiga Santander will be the following Tuesday, 18 January, at home against Espanyol: precisely the club where he began his career on the bench in his quarry and whose first team he directed in the 2014-15 season and part of the next.

In the 2017-18 campaign he signed for Valladolid in the final stretch of the championship, managing to promote it to the First Division. In the highest category, he trained the pucelanos for the next three seasons, achieving the goal of salvation in the first two, a challenge similar to the one now requested by Cádiz.

The people of Cadiz are in the penultimate position of the classification with 14 points added in twenty games, four of the remaining positions.

As a footballer, Sergio González was an international midfielder with the Spanish team from 2002 to 2006 who played four seasons at Espanyol, nine at Deportivo de La Coruña and one at Levante, achieving two Copa del Rey titles, one with the Catalans (2000) and another with the Galicians (2002)