Francisco Rodriguez He is now officially the successor of Andoni Iraola in the Vallecano Ray. The coach from Almería lands in Vallecas with the aim of continuing to prolong the good sporting moment that the men’s first team of the Vallecano entity is experiencing. For it, will have to overcome the difficult challenge of rebuilding a team that will lose some of its most recognizable faces this summer in recent years, which have been key in achieving recent successes.
The coach from Almería will also look at Rayo claim as a coachafter his bitter departure from Elche, the club in which he was dismissed last October, precisely after falling at the Vallecas Stadium. As has been the case in recent seasons, the Rayista club signs its coach for one season. Once the course is over, and if the objectives have been met, both parties will sit down again to negotiate a hypothetical renewal. The presentation will be next Monday, July 3 at 12:30 p.m. in the press room of the Ciudad Deportiva rayista.
Francisco living his fourth experience in LaLiga Santander at Rayo. His debut came at Almeria in the 2013-2014 season, in which he took over the bench for the Indico team in an almost accidental way. After the ascent, Javi Gracia rejected the renewal offer and the Almería club decided to bet on a young Francisco, who was barely 34 years old. After a first agonizing salvation, the Andalusian coach will continue the following seasonbut after adding 10 points in the first 14 days he will be dismissed.
Pass through the Huesca
His next opportunity in Primera would take three years to arrive. will do it in Huesca and after Leo Franco’s failed bet. After barely eight days, the Argentine was fired and Francisco was chosen to pick up the baton. Things did not go as expected either and SD Huesca would end up returning to the silver category, finishing the course in 19th position and eight points from safety.
In a situation very similar to that of Huesca, Francisco will sign in 2021-2022 for an Elche immersed in the fight for permanence. The man from Almería took charge of the franjiverde bench after the dismissal of Fran Escrib on matchday 14. With just 11 points, the men from Martínez Valero were third from bottom, but after a draw at El Sadar led by Sergio Mantecn (1-1), Francisco will debut with the team already out of relegation. With 42 points, Elche will end the season in a creditable 13th place.
Bitter end in Elche and a new opportunity in Vallecas
Salvation opened the doors of renewal for Francisco at the Martínez Valero. However, the bad results forced the franjiverde club to do without the man from Almeria and sign Jorge Almirn. With only one draw in the first seven days, that terrible start would already be a harbinger of what would come next. Almera B, UCAM Murcia, Lugo and two failed promotions with Girona complete his career. Now, at the age of 45, Francisco begins a new project at Rayo in which the results will once again be decisive from the beginning.
