Sacked Coach Slams Barca Star-Turned-Club Owner
13 May, 2020
Among FC Barcelona's first-team players recently bought a club in Spain, but showed little patience with the coach after a string of bad results - the sacked manager has hit back at the new owner..
Blaugrana defender Gerard Pique acquired FC Andorra in December 2018, with the club gaining promotion to the Tercera Division immediately after. In July 2019, they bought CF Reus Deportiu's rights to play in Segunda Division B - Spain's third tier.
Pique's club in the beginning did well despite skipping a division, but on 20 February, coach Gabri Garcia was sacked and the axed manager has spoken out against Pique.
"It was problematic for me to understand the decision, which was obviously Pique's," Gabri, himself a former Barcelona player, told RAC1, as cited by Marca.
"First I was told by the board and then by him. He previously the final word. Professionally, I was disappointed."
The former FC Sion coach feels his sacking was an unjust one after the team's objectives changed in a short space of time.
"I lost three games plus they decided that I needed to be dismissed," Gabri explained.
"They explained that they didn't see me with the capacity of reversing the situation to have the team in to the play-offs.
"That team was manufactured in two weeks. It had been designed to play in Tercera and also to make an effort to fight for promotion to the Segunda B. We went up, but even the players we signed were told that they could even suffer to be able not to decrease.
"Following the first few matches, it had been assumed that FC Andorra will be towards underneath of the table. But we were leaders for four games and only two other teams were the surface of the table more.
"These are pretty good numbers for a team that had just been promoted and was not at that level for twenty years.
"They started to assume that increasing from the Segunda B to the Segunda would be easy."
FC Andorra are in ninth place with 41 points, eight points behind the play-off spots to Spain's second division.
Source: www.soccerladuma.co.za
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