The passion on the Bilbao Athletic bench almost always consists of betting on someone from home, mostly with a past as a first team player. Murua, Sarriugarte, the current Spanish coach De la Fuente, Ziganda, Gaizka Garitano, Solabarrieta, Joseba Etxeberria, Patxi Salinas and last season Gurpegi have served the last two decades as managers of the red and white bench. reserve team.
The bet, during Urrutia’s time as president and the Elizegi principle, was to also resort to a coach with enough experience in elite football to take the direction of the first team if necessary. Ziganda and Gaizka Garitano, for example. From the departure of Etxebe to the arrival of Gurpegi, bets for the subsidiary bank did not pan out. De la Sota and Bingen Arostegi were replaced respectively by Patxi Salinas and Pallarés.
The bet in the first case, last year by Elizegi, went well and the team stayed. In the second, in Uriarte in Ibaigane, it turned out to be a real failure. Fiasco solved, yes, this year with the help of Gurpegi.
Source: La Verdad
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