Nor is it any return of Jose Bordalás to Getafe this Saturday (9:00 p.m.) as coach of Valencia. The coach from Alicante lived in the Coliseum bench their Best moments What technicalin addition to the wear inherent to five seasons consecutive in the same club. In fact, it was last spring when the coach reached an agreement with the president Angel Torres to release him from the remaining year of his contract and thus be able to sign for the Valencia.
Gone are five seasons in which the coach imprinted his character on the azulón team to get him out of Second division until caress the Champions League, in the 2018-19 season, which finally yielded on the penultimate day against a Valencia who made an unstoppable final stretch of the League.
Bordalás arrived at Getafe in the Second Division, with the 2016-17 season, already started. Months ago she had achieved the promotion to First Division with Alavés which, later surprised by announcing the dismissal of the technician – he had signed the automatic renewal with the promotion. He appeared in the coliseum in September due to the poor results of Juan Eduardo Esnaiderwith the team in relegation places and already out of the Cup. Bordalás did react to team until you take it to the posts of play-off of ascent. eliminated Huescafirst, and at Tenerifelater, and achieved his second consecutive promotion with a difference of a year.
Bordalás and Angel Torres they formed a indestructible binomial. Despite the strong character of both, they understood what was the plot of each and respected their functions, although they did not always share the decisions made by the other. The coach from Alicante was finally able to fulfill his dream of training in First. And it could not have had a better premiere when classifying the Getafe (17-18) in eighth position with defensive solidity as a flag. Only 33 goals conceded the azulón team on its return to the highest category the best figure in its history in the First Division and also the best figure from the coach. It was this year that the “Bordalás, I love you” in Getafe, which they have already sung to him in Valencia to the coach after Valencia qualified for the Cup final.
The next season 18-19 increased rivalry between Valencia and Getafeespecially for the eliminatory of rooms from Cup and also for the race for the Champions. The azulón team spent many days installed in fourth place, but ended up transferring it to Valencia with two games to go. The classification for Europe League It was an unthinkable success that tasted like little in the end.
The season 2019-20marked by the pandemic, had a devastating effect down the stretch of the course. Until the end of the competition due to the state of alarm, Getafe had shown that it could combine the Europa League with a season in the league improved the numbers of the previous course. But on the return of the competition after the state of alarmhe was only able to win one match in the final eleven rounds and fell to eighth place on the last day.
Valencia already wanted to sign him in 2020
That summer it became more evident Attrition and doubts between Bordalás and Ángel Torres. Valencia had already gone to sign the coach from Alicante, but he had contract until 2022, clause, and a knockout round of the Europa League against Inter that he did not want to give up, although he was eliminated. That’s why finally the club black and white signed Javi Gracia to present it as soon as the campaign was over, when the European qualifiers were still to be played.
last season was the most difficult of the technician in Getafe. The team suffered until the penultimate day to ensure the salvation. It was a new situation for the coach from Alicante who agreed with Angel Torres in which the best thing for both was to separate paths. The President Anil Murty I had already tested him again with a premise: if you don’t have to pay a clause, you will be Valencia’s coach.
Bordalás I would have gone back to coliseum last summer as coach of Valencia, to celebrate the match of the 75th anniversary of the blue club. But the schedule pitted both teams against Mestalla on the first day and Bordalás He asked that a friendly not be played with so few days to spare before the first official match. Now he returns in a match in which there is a lot at stake for both teams, although he will not miss, at least until before the initial whistle, the welcome to the technician.
