Bilbao Athletic continues to go downhill and without brakes in its second season in the First RFEF. The rojiblanco team is currently in the penultimate position of the qualifying table and is nine points away from safety. Real Unión, their rival next Sunday in Lezama, is fifteenth or, what is the same, the first of the teams located above the five clubs currently occupying the relegation places.
Both the Bilbao and Irundarra entities continued to change their coach until this year. There is an added circumstance that David Movilla, the current coach of the Gipuzkoan team, has been among the possible applicants to replace Bingen Arostegi on the bench of the Athletic subsidiary. However, the current managers of Lezama chose to sign Álex Pallarés.
Far from improving, the pups’ plight worsened as the days passed. When Arostegi was dismissed, Bilbao Athletic were bottom of the table, but two points away from safety and the tenth-placed team just three points ahead of them. Real Unión, for its part, is also in the relegation zone with 13 points, one more than the people from Bilbao.
At the end of matchday 18 of the League, the cubs were in the penultimate position with 14 points, just two more than they had earned in the Arostegi phase until matchday 12. Real Unión, for their part, had disappeared from having of 16 points and being seventeenth before the arrival of Movilla, to add 23 and find themselves outside the relegation zone.
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Bilbao Athletic have not been strengthened since Pallarés came to the bench. It is true that Quicala made his debut last weekend as a rojiblanco after moving to Lezama from Portugalete, but his signing took place before the change of coach. Parting ways with the rojiblanco club is center forward Ewan Urain, who has been loaned to Amorebieta. This last club, by the way, is also about to make official the arrival of Julen Jon Guerrero, from the youth of Real Madrid.
In Biscayan soccer circles, the possibility of Bilbao Athletic acquiring the services of Gorka Santamaría, a 27-year-old center forward who is part of the rojiblanco subsidiary to which Kuko Ziganda, with Bingen Arostegi second, is several times when it rang. day.promoted to the Second Division. The striker from Bilbao recently terminated his contract with Deportivo de A Coruña.
Source: La Verdad
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