The news was announced on Monday afternoon by colleagues from ‘Relevo’. Julen Guerrero will not renew his contract as Spanish U-17 coach with the Spanish Football Federation. Speculation about his possible return to Athletic began to rise from there.
The board led by Jon Uriarte, where Mikel González acts as director of football and Sergio Navarro as director of Lezama, has already carried out a series of movements at the technical level in the Athletic youth academy. Carlos Gurpegi, for example, was appointed to lead Bilbao Athletic. Bittor Llopis, for his part, left the Juvenil A rojiblanco bench to work for Basconia, Athletic’s second subsidiary.
No official news has come out about the organization chart of the Basconia coaches below, but it seems that Javi González, who is a former lion, will not be assigned to take over the first rojiblanco youth team despite taking charge of B this season. both categories during this campaign.
Julen Guerrero’s profile fits Lezama for his career as a coach and trainer and for his football past at Athletic himself. It also happens that his son Julen Jon is currently on loan from Real Madrid at Amorebieta, a team that has jumped to LaLiga SmartBank. The now footballer from the Zornotsarra team witnessed last Sunday’s match between the lions at the Bernabéu against the Ancelottis with the Athletic fans themselves.
In Tuesday’s joint appearance at Lezama, Mikel González indicated that Athletic already has more professionals tied to strengthen its structure at Lezama, but he could not promote the names because they have valid contracts with other entities. We’ll have to wait to see whether or not Julen Guerrero is one of those options. Silence, as usual when nothing is officially closed, prevails in the rojiblanco club.
Source: La Verdad
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