He is one of the most beloved foreign coaches in Spanish football and is finalizing the assault on what would be his first title in Spain. Javier Aguirre aspires to lift the Copa del Rey next Saturday in Seville, where a classic of this competition awaits his Mallorca team, Athletic Bilbao. In the days prior to the dispute in the final, the coach of the Balearic team has had a reminder of Sporting, a club that marked his career as a footballer without “the Basque”, as he is nicknamed, wearing the red and white shirt. During his time as an Osasuna player, Aguirre suffered a serious injury during a match against Gijón. On October 26, 1986, Sporting defeated Osasuna in the old Sadar by zero goals to two (Flores and Joaquín) and Javier Aguirre fractured his tibia and fibula and did not play for Osasuna again. He returned to Mexico, where he still tried to play soccer for Chivas de Guadalajara, but he never returned to being the soccer player he was and ended up hanging up his boots.
“Iñaki Ibáñez throws me a long ball, I was being questioned a little by people because I was not a player for Europe, I was quite a boot-twister,” Aguirre recalled, about the action in which he ended up injured, during an interview in “El Partidazo ” by Cadena Cope. “I jumped, the goalkeeper arrived first and I broke my leg in two. Fortunately I didn’t hurt Gatu,” the Mexican recalled about that dispute with Juan Carlos Ablanedo. “My career in Spain ended there,” he assumed.
Juanma Castaño from Gijón, host of the program, then reminded him that Juan Carlos Ablanedo had also experienced a very different dispute with his compatriot, Hugo Sánchez. That expulsion of the red-and-white goalkeeper, who was difficult to get out of his mind due to his conciliatory nature, is still remembered in Gijón. “Hugo was also a character…”, the Mallorca coach slipped, laughing.
2024-04-04 18:00:00
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