2023-12-29 07:30:59
After two seasons playing with fire and saving the category in the fateful first play-out against the Palafrugell and last year before lArenys de Munthe Flat Girona Garage CH I was confident that this year things would be very different. At the time of truth and despite some peaks of good play and results, the team navigates the bottom and occupies play-out positions (third from the tail with three wins and two draws in thirteen days). And you know, when the results are not as expected, all eyes go to the bench. The dictatorship of the results has caused a blow to the rudder on the bench of Girona d’Hockey to prevent the team from getting stuck even more. The chosen to replace Ramon Benito is Xavier Garcia Balda, who already led the team to Palau yesterday evening. The coach lands at Girona after a year without training andhaving promoted Palafrugell to OK League twice and having managed it for four seasons in the highest category.
“The decision is purely sporting. We needed a shaker before the dynamics got worse and we loved each other more to make this decision. Trying to fix it later might have been too late,” he said yesterday Eduard Recio, the president of the club. Recio recognized that with the signings made in the summer, expectations were higher than the classification reflects. “We have a good team to be in quieter positions or in the Copa del Rey and we are in play-out positions. We know that there is a template to be higher”, he argued. Recio emphasizes that Benito “he’s not the only one to blame” of the situation and thanks the work done to the technician Tordera. “If Girona is where it is, it is largely thanks to him. The base has been strengthened a lot and many juniors want to come and play here”, he recalled.
Benito’s stage started in 2015, he continued with a promotion to OK Liga in 2016 and eight consecutive seasons in the elite. The dictatorship of the results has condemned him. It’s sport. Now the job is for Garcia Balda, who has the challenge of extracting more juice from the squad and making it climb places in the classification without any player movements. Garcia Balda’s debut on the Garatge Plana bench will be the Sunday January 7 at the Reus track.
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