Javier Aguirre, for his sixth adventure in Spanish football: he signed for Mallorca

Javier Aguirre has become the new technical director of the Real Club Deportivo Mallorca in Spain in what will be his return to the benches of the Iberian country. El Vasco arrives with the aim of saving the pirates from relegation in La Liga, a championship in which the team marches eighteenth place with 26 points in 29 disputes. The Mexican has nine games to make it.

After being separated from the Monterrey Rayados due to poor results only at the end of February, Aguirre didn't wait too long to join a new project. The coach will return to Spanish football where he has done much of his career and where he has forged most of his career. At the club level, it is the nationality of which he has most led teams.

“I understand the wills, I understand that it is my job, the decisions of the board. These are the times that are handled, five matches of the third tournament, but there are no reproaches. Now I'm here (Mallorca) with another story, a new job and a new city. I am left with the satisfaction of winning a title, it was stamped on the Monterrey jersey, I have my medal,” said the 63-year-old coach for the Fox Sports MX microphones.

Real Mallorca will represent the sixth team he directs in Spain. He did so before at Osasuna, Atletico Madrid, Real Zaragoza, Espanyol in Barcelona and Leganés. With the exception of the colchoneros, these have been situations in which the team struggles to get out of the last places in the standings. The most recent example was Leganés who could not save from descending in 2020.

The path of Vasco, however, has not focused solely on Spain, as he has experience in football from Japan, Egypt and the United Arab Emirates, in addition to the Mexican one. The rest of the clubs he has led were Al-Wahda Football Club, Atlante, Pachuca, Monterrey and the senior teams of Japan, Egypt and Mexico. The latter on up to two occasions.

In his record, the coach has titles in Mexico and the United Arab Emirates, but not in Spain. With the Tuzos he won the Liga MX in 1999 and with the Rayados the Concacaf Champions League. With Al-Wahda he won twice the President's Cup and a League Cup. Internationally, he has a Gold Cup trophy with Mexico in the 2009 edition.

With the Rojillos it was perhaps the most important period in Spanish football. Aguirre came to the old continent to lead for the first time with Osasuna, where he stayed for four seasons and led to a Copa del Rey final (lost to Real Betis) and win a historic fourth place at the end of the 2005-2006 season.

He arrived at the Madrid team in 2006 after having left a good feeling in his previous team. Vasco was on the mattress bench for three seasons and, among other things, returned the club to the top spots in La Liga and to compete at the continental level after several years of not doing so (more than a decade).

In 2010, the Mexican joined the Maños in an unfavorable situation. In that season the club was last in the standings, but by the end of the championship they managed to stay in the first division with a victory in the last match. The case has been investigated by the Spanish authorities on suspicion of a match fixing, however, they have already determined that there was no such thing.

With the Parakeets, the story was similar. The struggle not to descend was not something new for Aguirre, who did achieve the goal in the two years he was as a coach. In his first season he even fought for competitive positions in Europe after a major comeback in results. It was from 2012 to 2014.

In 2019, Javier arrived with the Pepineros again with the goal of saving the team from relegation. To the bad record of the Mexican, this time he failed to achieve his mission. Those led by Aguirre held on to the first division until the last day where their future was finally decided. The coach and Leganés decided not to continue their relationship after that.

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