After Deco, the sporting director of FC Barcelona, will rule out the promotion of Rafa Márquez as coach of the first teamthe name of the “Kaiser from Michoacan” once again circulated in the Barça orbit after the team’s elimination from the Champions League, according to various sources.
According to a team spokesperson who spoke with the EFE agency, The Mexican’s possibilities remain latent since January “as a matter of course” and they never disappeared, despite what Deco said.
What happens, according to the source’s account, is that In the culé team “the search for a coach has not yet been activated” for the next course, something that will only occur when Xavi Hernández leaves, which is scheduled for the end of the season
“Márquez is the closest candidatewill be one of the candidates that will be considered as an option when the time comes,” commented the same source.
Who else would be in the running to be the coach of Barcelona?
Rafa Marquez It is not the only option. On the stage is also contemplated the possibility of another candidate: Hans Flickaccording to the Spanish agency.
flick He was coach of Bayern Munich and the German national team. However, everything indicates that the German would have requested a list of signings that are not within the reach of the Catalan club’s battered economy and that reduces his possibilities.
On the other hand, ESPN also inquired among its sources, who mentioned that Flick is joined by Thomas Tuchel, although Mexican is the most viable option to take over from Xavi, due to the economic limitations that the club will face in the summer marketso it would be difficult for them to hire someone experienced who demands signings of figures.
The Márquez option is a bet by president Joan Laporta, who values, as happened in his day with Pep Guardiola, that the first team coach has passed through the reserve team and knows the entity’s young players.
Currently, Márquez’s team, andBarça Atlètic is second in group I of the First Federation Leaguesix points behind the first – Deportivo, which is the only one that currently has a direct promotion spot – and therefore in a promotion spot.
Rafa Márquez, one of the great representatives of Mexico in world football, played between 2003 and 2010 for FC Barcelona and won two Champions Leagues, four League titles and one Copa del Rey. As a coach he took charge of the Barça reserve team in the summer of 2022, where he arrived from the cadet bench of the Real Sociedad Deportiva Alcalá de Alcalá de Henares.
After retiring as a professional footballer in 2018, Márquez developed the role of Sports Director at the Mexican Atlas, the last team for which he played.
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