He refuse of Elche The Second Division, which ended today after the defeat in Almería, was the first setback suffered by the owner of the entity, the Argentine businessman. Christian Bragarnik, since his arrival in December 2019.
Since the Argentinian businessman took control of the club, Elche has experienced a golden stage with a climbing in the First Division and two stays in the highest category, so the loss of the category for the next campaign is assumed to be a great sport and economic blow for its management.
Bragarnik came down to Elche in course 2019-20, but he remained in the background and away from day-to-day and managing a season, which was interrupted by the pandemic, which ended in an unexpected promotion to Girona.
After the jump to the Primera, the Argentine already He took control of all entity parcels. In administrative and bureaucratic management, he chose the people he trusted the most and in sports matters he began to make decisions, such as the removal of Jose Rojo ‘Pacheta’, coach who took the team from Second B to First, by Jorge Almirón.
The Elche squad has started populated by Argentine players and South Americans who came with the endorsement of the owner and the team, after a change of direction at the beginning of the second round, he managed to reach the end alive and saved himself with a carom on the last day.
The businessman, who already manages all areas of the club, also came out to him second season in Primera despite betting on players like Javier Pastore or Darío Benedetto, who spent more pain than glory for the club.
The team, after a new change on the bench, responded to a bad start and achieved the permanence so calm down.
Parallel to the success in sports, the Argentine began to draw the main lines of the future ambitious economic and social projects, such as the purchase of land for the construction of Sports City or the remodeling and improvement of the Martínez Valero stadium.
One day away from relegation
Elch only managed to get out of the relegation zone on the third day of the LaLiga championship, when they added a point, for the best overall coefficient along with Valladolid and Getafe.
The Elche team, celebrating its third consecutive season in the First Division, fell into relegation after losing the first league match in Seville against Betis (3-0) and in the last position in the sixth division after falling in its visit in Barcelona (3-0).
From day six, Elche was chronically at the bottom of the competition, a position it would not abandon until the end of the championship.
Elche’s relegation will also leave some negative records in a season in which it has had up to six coaches, two of them temporary.
The team took 20 games to add their first win, 24 to leave a clean sheet and linked six consecutive defeats for the first time in their 24 seasons in the First Division.
However, when the team seemed to be consolidated in the First Division, the sports bump and the first criticisms of his management by fans.
The stands of Martínez Valero have heard the cries of this season “Bragarnik go now” on more than one occasion.
In addition, it was also censored, at the same time, certain coldness of the institution in the works of the club’s centenary and an increasing distance from the club, but not from the team, with its social mass.
The businessman, little given to dealing with the media, has already asked through social networks sorry january for sports management of this season and assumed mistakes.
When the relegation also ends, the club hto apologize to the fans and He showed his firm intention to keep the projects started and return as soon as possible to the Primera in the hands of coach Sebastián Beccacece, his new bet for the bench
Source: La Verdad
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