ALICANTE. “They called me, yes. I have great friends. I have a relationship with the current technical secretary, I was able to speak with him and with the owner.” This is what he referred to in an interview on the program You see Fé-Cé from Plaza Podcast the technician Jose Bordalas at the call of Elche to take charge of his bench after the dismissal of Jorge Almiron.
“They were interested in him leading the team. It couldn’t be, but I wish him the best, because it’s a club from our province, which I’m very fond of. We love us a lot”, said the coach from Alicante, going on to review his career as head of his bench: “It was the first team I coached in professional football, in Second division […] big and historic club […] He usually fought to save himself and not descend, and we stayed very close to ascending to First the first year. The next we play ‘play-off’. We did a great job,” he said.
The one in November was the second call that this Bordalás course received from the franjiverde entity, since this had already tried to hire him without luck when he dispensed with the services of Francis Rodriguez. The man from Alicante did not go into the reasons behind the fact that in neither of the two cases did the contacts for his hiring progress, but he was sure that Elche has not said its last word this season: “I am convinced that that with the new coach they will do a good job and recover their best level. They will fight to save the category and hopefully they will succeed”.
Elche has 24 days ahead to achieve permanence. Next Thursday, from 9:30 p.m. in the Wanda MetropolitanoThe team of Pablo Machin you will see the faces with the Atletico Madrid. That will be the first of the 24 remaining games for the curtain to come down. LaLiga Santander 2022/23 and the franjiverdes arrive at the same with 4 points, 8 of permanence.