He former Athletic player Carlos Gurpegui He will be the coach of Bilbao Athletic next season, as reported by the rojiblanco club on Monday, which also states that the Navarrese coach trained in Lezama is taking on the challenge “with great enthusiasm”.

Thus, the one in Andosilla (1980) makes the leap from the second subsidiary of the rojiblanco club, Basconia, the one who led to the promotion phase to the Second RFEF, a Bilbao Athletic that will play in that fourth category of national football after being relegated this season from the First RFEF.

Gurpegui spent a total of 15 seasons in the Athletic first team, in which he played a total of 393 games and scored 22 goals.

“It is a very nice new challenge. I face with great enthusiasm and desire the chance that the club gives me. I have the advantage of knowing practically the entire squad for the year and a half that I have been at Basconia and I hope to have a great season”, the Navarrese has valued in statements released by Athletic itself.

Gurpegui reaches the management of the first Bilbao subsidiary assuming that “every Lezama coach has a responsibility very big with the club and with the players”. “And more with the philosophy that we have”, he stressed.

Carlos Gurpegui, coach of the #BilbaoAthletic

“Every Lezama coach has a very big responsibility with the Club”

“The objective is to nurture the first team of players who arrive in the best conditions, with the highest level of both sport and intellectuality” pic.twitter.com/H74M1R0lyd

— Athletic Club (@AthleticClub) May 29, 2023

Source: Eitb

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