OFFICIAL: Jonatan Giráldez, replacement for Lluís Cortés at Barça Femení

Published:2/07/2021 - 13:13h

Updated:2/07/2021 - 16:44h

FC Barcelona announced this Friday the name of the coach who will replace Lluís Cortés at the head of Femení. It is about his already former assistant, Jonatan Giráldez, who will sit on the culé bench until 2022, with another optional year

"Jonatan Giráldez will be the new trainer of the Barça Feminine, after Lluís Cortés communicated that it left the charge. The new links with the Club will be by a season with option to a second". Of this form announced the FC Barcelona that Jonatan Giráldez, up to now assistant of Cortés, will commission to direct to the Femení as little until June of 2022.

The own Barça remembered in his communiqué that the Galician "has been one of the two assistants of Cortés in the last two seasons and average". After learning of the Catalan two years and half, the club has decided to give him the keys of the team of face to the course that comes, with another optional campaign in case that it fulfil with the high expectations that there is around him.

The culés also wanted to explain where signed the agreement of the technician and who assisted to the act. "The signature of the new agreement of Jonatan Giráldez has produced in an act this Friday in the morning in the Institutional Dispatch of Presidency, with the presence of the president Joan Laporta, the managerial Xavier Puig, the Director of Sports, Xavier Budó, and the mánager of the feminine football, Markel Zubizarreta", informed the Barcelona.

The own Giráldez spoke after the announcement and showed loved and happy to be able to assume this challenge. "It is an illusion tremenda. I am with many win to begin to work because have a group of work very good, with the staff and the players. To go in here have to have winning mentality to want to win all the parties. With these two years and half have taken a lot of experience, in a club of elite learn of the best", affirmed.

Giráldez Bets by a style of winning game and appeal

"I have evolved and perfected my idea", continued, for to continuation praise to his team and leave clear that the idea is to follow winning and playing well." Have tools to follow winning. This is the mentality that have. And it is very important the how: evolve an idea with a profile asociativo, that are leading. Have a very beautiful challenge, that is to go back to win and that is the intention", finalised.