Abelardo to the rescue of a critic Sporting de Gijón
These are not good times for Real Sporting de Gijón. The Asturian team is in the seventeenth place, just 4 points of the positions that condemn the reduction of category.
There are four days left for the end of the regular league in the Second Division and the president Javier Fernández, along with the rest of his board, have decided not to speculate and try to guarantee the permanence. The solution: the return of 'Pitu' Abelardo to the El Molinón bench to the detriment of José Luis Martí.
Abelardo signs up 2023
The last hours have been frantic for the rojiblanco club. Several media suggest that Abelardo was contacted immediately, but that the stage was not, far from it, the ideal for a new coach to take the reins of the team.
As we mentioned at the beginning, Sporting is very close to the well of the First RFEF, the former Second Division B, and has only added 6 points in the last 10 matches he has played.
The doubts in Abelardo's head were more than normal. Although finally, as a man of the house, has finished accepting the challenge. Will sign until next year 2023, so he will complete this course and continue the next campaign.
He looks happy
These have been the first statements by Abelardo after his return to Sporting de Gijón, in which he has been remarkably pleased:
“El Sporting es mi familia y cuando una familia te necesita, pues no puedes decirle que no”.
“Lo dije en su momento, when Sporting needs me I will return. Let's see if I can transfer to the template all that comes to me, all those messages of support and strength. They are the ones who need it, estoy convencido que lo vamos a sacar”.
“Son 4 matches, let's see if we save the category as best we can and from there, well see other things. When I train Sporting I don't train alone, train the whole family. It is not the same as when I train Alavés or Espanyol, that I have had that luck. Everyone lives it like me, ilusionados con que salgan las cosas”.
The last coach to go up to the First Division
The clear objective of Sporting, even though it's not coming true, is to return to the highest category of Spanish football. The last time the Asturian entity rose to the First Division was in 2015, precisely with Abelardo at the controls.
