Sergi Barjuan temporarily replaces Ronald Koeman on the Barça bench

The interim on the bench of FC Barcelona will end when the club closes the hiring of a new coach after the dismissal of Ronald Koeman.

Barça made official that Sergi Barjuan, the current coach of the subsidiary, will be the new interim technician of the Barça first team and will already lead the training session this Thursday at 5:00 p.m. (10:00 a.m. in Ecuador) at the Ciutat Esportiva Joan Gamper and the League match against him. Alaves Saturday at 9:00 p.m. at Camp Nou (2:00 p.m., from Ecuador).

“He will take over provisionally the technical direction of the first team and the interim on the first team bench will end when the club close the hiring of a new coach after the dismissal of Ronald Koeman ”, explains the club’s statement.

In addition, the president Joan Laporta He will present him to the squad just before training this afternoon and tomorrow Friday he will accompany him at the press conference to be held at 06:00 (from Ecuador) in the same sports city.

Barjuan (Les Franqueses del Vallès, 1971), trained as a player in the Barça lower categories, was a footballer for the Barça first team between 1993 and 2002 and ended his career on the pitch at the Atlético de Madrid, where he stayed for three years.

As coach, the new interim Barça coach trained the Recreativo de Huelva, al Almeria, al Mallorca and to Chinese zheijang before taking on the Barça affiliate this summer, with which he now occupies eleventh place in the classification of group 2 of the First RFEF. (D)

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