Carlos Guerrero, new general director of the Penya Independent: “Great things are going to be done”

Carlos Guerrero (Madrid, 1967) has been Getafe CF’s technical secretary for the lower categories for years. A soccer man who trained as a player in the Atlético academy and later made a career in teams like Valladolid, Getafe, Murcia, Toledo or Racing de Ferrol.

His experience and knowledge put him under the spotlight of Real Madrid, which in 2021 hired him to reinforce the sports area of ​​the merengue youth academy. During his extensive career, he has stood out for his facet as a scout and analyst of young talents in the Madrid region, and now he will take another step in his career to direct the ambitious project of the Curuné family in Sant Miquel with the Penya Independent.

“Illusion and energy”

In his first statements as general manager of the orange club, Carlos Guerrero assured that the club has “a very good human group” that “transmits enthusiasm and energy.” “The work that has been done is extraordinary because the club has advanced a lot in a short time and continues to advance,” explained the man from Madrid, aware that “the achievement obtained” with the promotion to the Second RFEF “is going to lead to great difficulty.” . “But with the illusion that both the president and the club’s human group have, great things are going to be done,” he clarified.

“The idea that we have as a club is to lay the foundations so that from below and from the young boys, a fundamental piece of a project, things are done better every time and that there are more options for grassroots football to contribute players to the first team. », stressed Guerrero, whose file is clearly defined in the quarry work.

In this sense, he recognized that “there are difficulties” in bringing forward footballers from the base “due to the unique location of the club on an island and the available resources”, but his mission to carry out “uniform work” and that “the first team is the mirror where the boys who have been growing up in the club have to look at themselves. “There are a significant number of boys and you have to take great care of them,” he stressed about a club that has seven squads and 180 players in its lower categories.

A convinced grassroots footballer

«I am convinced that grassroots football has to be something very important in the structure of a club and the idea is to consolidate a project. That there is the feeling that things are being done well, we have a serious president, with a lot of ambition, and he wants the team of his heart to be better and better, “said Guerrero, who has already gotten down to work in the planning of the squad that will debut in the Second RFEF. One of the first news is the departure of Fernando Andrada, one of the heroes of the promotion, who yesterday said goodbye to his stage at the club on his social networks.

“Keep dreaming high”, the goal of the Sant Miquel club

“Carlos Guerrero Santiago will be the first general manager of our club for the next 2023-24 season,” the club said, confirming the news advanced by es Diari.

A decision, said the Sant Miquel entity, which has been taken “given the direction the club is taking after achieving two consecutive promotions and now making its debut in the Second RFEF, for the first time in the 50-year history that we celebrate this year”. . “The current project of the SE Penya Independent is to work to continue dreaming high with the first team and strengthen the youth academy of the municipality who choose our club to learn the technique and values ​​of the sport,” he explained.

“Carlos Guerrero also comes to strengthen the work that the current board of directors has done in recent years to consolidate the youth academy that today has seven grassroots soccer teams with 180 children from 3 years old to the youth category,” he concluded.