Calero announced his departure from the Levante bench

The technician Julian Calero has stopped being the coach of Cartagena to sign him I raisedof the same category, LaLiga Hypermotionwhile Francisco Belmonte He indicated his intention to continue leading the entity as president. The Asturian Abelardo Fernandezformer coach of Sporting de Gijón, Alavés and Espanyol, will be the new coach of the department team, where he has been committed for one season.

In a press conference that lasted about an hour and a half, the coach, along with the sports director, Manuel Sánchez Breis, Calero assured that “my heart asked me one thing and my head told me another. There are people who will understand my decision as another part of life and others who will not understand it and I will respect all.”

After Belmonte said have “full battery” to continue the project while confirming that many investment funds have knocked on his door to be interested in a possible purchase of the club, without giving more details, the leading role went to the main architect of the permanent achievement of a team that at the end of The first round seemed doomed to relegation and he managed to save himself three days from the end of the championship.

“I don’t know what I did to make the people of Cartagena love me so much. “I fell in love with the city, the stadium and the fans two weeks after arriving here,” he said, visibly excited before pointing out that “every one of the members of this club will never forget this year. “

“We tried to keep him with us, but he understood that it was time face new challenges and we have to accept it. We wish him all the luck in the world,” the president said.

“In December we offered a renewal, we are now in business Second division or to First RFEF, because we always believed in him, but he decided to face a new challenge. “It’s not a coach leaving, but a friend, someone to love is very simple,” commented Sánchez Breis about the man who came to the bench at the end of September to replace the fired man. Victor Sanchez del Amo with the bottom team.

Belmonte and Sánchez Breis have not spoken publicly for months after receiving a lot of criticism and even verbal attacks and they explain their silence: “We believe that the best thing is to step aside due to various circumstances and Calero has since been the best speaker we could have had in that context. “He did a great job in the locker room and outside of it,” argued the second.

“Life deals with challenges, like Calero with us. You will always have your doors open as long as this board is here. He is a chameleonic coach and that should be the next one to come. The decision is quick and will soon be official,” said Belmonte.

“From there the new project will start, with a new captain of the ship. We want to get people excited again and I think it’s going to be a good start. The batteries are full to make a competitive Cartagena to sign a coach as good as Julián,” he concluded.