Once that Jon Uriarte has presented in LaLiga the guarantees that confirm his presidency, the club has done official the return to the bench of Ernesto Valverde. The technician with more parties directed in the history of the Athletic of Bilbao faces his third stage in the bench of Saint Mamés.
Valverde Will be presented this afternoon of Thursday in Saint Mamés, in which it will be the first official act of the Managerial Board of Jon Uriarte. The Txingurri will initiate the Monday the pre-season with the first staff with several trainings of Lezama before the stage that will make in Germany between the 16 and on 23 July.
It is very likely that before moving to territory germano, where the lions will play a triangular in front of Borussia Moenchengladbach and Duisburgo, and two friendly more in front of Mainz05 and Bochum, there is a party in front of a rival of lower category in Biscayan earths.
The new technician rojiblanco, that also would have been it in the case that Ricardo Barkala had been the winner of the elections, dressed the T-shirt of the Athletic during six seasons (1990-96). It formed like trainer in Lezama, directing two years to cadets, one to juvenile and another to the Bilbao Athletic, until being risen to the first team in the campaign 2003-04.
Successful past
Valverde Has attained 140 victories like technician rojiblanco and has been, in addition to champion of the Supercopa, runner-up of Glass and cuartofinalista in the Europe League (2015-16) when falling in the penaltis in front of the Seville FC. It is with 306 parties, the trainer that more times has headed to the lions in all the competitions and also is leader in this section, with 42 parties, in European tournaments.