Pepper: the challenge is to write a sports poem with the academy of UD Las Palmas in the First Division

The coach of UD Las Palmas, Xavi Garcia PepperHe said this Thursday, excitedly, that “in a minute” with a handshake he closed an agreement to renew the yellow club. He added that “when you’re not here it’s normal.” In his opinion, Las Palmas is key to projecting his professional future, “and now we deserve the First Division.”

In his opinion, the training of a club in the First Division has “great responsibility” and “we have to do things well.” “We cannot doubt our idea, the responsibility to make the whole world proud of us,” said García Pimienta.

“Thanks to the club I had a cache,” García Pimienta told UD Radio, the FM channel of UD Las Palmas. García Pimienta joined the yellow discipline in January 2022 and his first match on the bench in charge of UD Las Palmas was against Real Sociedad B, on January 30 of that year. The Catalan coach also made UD Las Palmas the best visiting team in LaLiga SmartBank. Throughout the 42 days he put the first team in direct promotion on 32 occasions (of which 16 remained as leader) and on another nine days, in play-off positions.

He admitted that he had “stomach” problems because while he was in Barcelona celebrating the promotion with family and friends, news began to emerge suggesting that UD Las Palmas was renewing. “It has been very easy although on Sunday, (…) the news started to come out, the president came out, I also came back, in a minute with a handshake, everything was done,” he said.

And it is that the negotiations are complicated this week because of the economic differences between what the representative of the coach demands and what the entity is willing to deal with.

García Pimienta said that his family gave him their support to maintain his presence at UD Las Palmas “and we are here but love puts aside everything else,” he said.