“If none of the candidates called me, what else would I wait for!”

Patxi Salinas He prefers not to wait and then the new president who will appear in the polls on June 24 will be without his services. Furthermore, none of the three candidates (Barkala, Arechabaleta Y Uriarte) called him to offer him to continue even though he saved Bilbao Athletic in a great second round. “I have done everything I can. I worked all the time I could and more. I gave my life to save Bilbao Athletic. What is not up to me I can do nothing. What’s on my hands is yes, because I’ve worked a lot for the team to get stuck in where it is, but the rest is not up to me. I can’t tire myself out of something I can’t do anything about. ”

In any case, he left very content with himself. “It’s time to breathe, to be happy. I’m a little excited. It’s not a time for sadness and loneliness, on the contrary, I’m happy, happy to have taught at the club of my loved ones, of my life”, he told Lezama after communicating talk on his departure from the club.

“I am the worst person in this club, but none of the three called me. The League ended on May 28 and we are on June 6. If no one calls me, what am I waiting for! They had plenty of time to tell me we were talking when they were elected president. I think I am an experienced person. No one called me, I would be happy if one or three called me, but no one called me, “he repeated.

The San Adrián coach thought last season: “I came on matchday 17. I’ve said this many times, I saw myself as a dead team, with thirteen points and in a very dangerous situation. But it’s necessary be brave. I talked to my family, with my brother and my children and they told me to move on. If he trusted me, he would have multiplied that by a hundred. Many people have told me “that I’m mad, that I’m going to spend two wonderful years in Basconia. It’s hard to imagine that the team could have saved matchday 37 with 45 points with a second round of 32 points. They are playoff numbers, scandalous”, he stated .

The coach considers that the future of Athletic is certain to the players from its youth academy. “We have 124 years of history competing against ocean liners and this club has always been in the lead, always. It is one of the best quarries in Europe or the best. We have saved the category in the First RFEF “Betis, Seville, Valladolid, three subsidiaries, have lost it. Our youth division of honor has become a finalist in the Champions Cup. We have an incredible quarry”, conclude.

Players from Basconia have been resolute in maintaining a subsidiary in the First RFEF. “The first thing I did when I climbed was include young people, failure, Hugo (Corner), Luis (Bilbao), adu (Malcolm), Gere (grenade). They are not known by many. But then everyone asked me about them. They told me, where did they come from? I answered that from our quarry. In four days they should be on the first team. We have an amazing group of players who will give us a lot of joy in a very short time. We just have to wait to see it, ”he said.