Espanyol's left-back Brian Oliván said on Tuesday after training at the Dani Jarque Sports City that the club "must stay in the First Division" and promised that the players will give "everything to achieve the goal."
The footballer, in statements to the club, pointed out that the block is immersed in a "super important moment of the season" and pointed out that "six very complicated finals" remain. Seville, this Thursday, Barcelona, Rayo Vallecano, Atlético de Madrid, Valencia and Almería is the blue and white calendar.
Oliván acknowledged that it is the players who have "searched" for this situation and appealed to their "responsibility" to get out of the hole. In any case, the player asked for the support of the stands so that they "support and help the team as much as possible" in this final stretch. "We will leave everything to ourselves," he insisted.
On the other hand, the defense confessed that it was not "a dish of good taste" having missed seven games due to injury: "From the outside it is much worse because you have the impotence of not being able to help the team."
Mikel Azparren joined Espanyol this Tuesday as the new coordinator of its grassroots football, as announced by the blue and white entity in a statement, taking over from Luis Vicente Mateo, who has held this position for the last three years.
Azparren joins the parakeet discipline after passing through the Catalan Football Federation, in which he has been for two courses. In this body, since 2021, the person now in charge of the Espanyol academy also coordinated the lower categories of the regional team.
Born in Pamplona 41 years ago, Mikel Azparren also played for the UE Sant Andreu as a coach between 2016 and 2021, before joining the Catalan Federation. His achievements include winning the Copa Catalunya in 2019 and qualifying for the round of 16 of the Copa del Rey in 2018-19.
Espanyol is confident that the arrival of Mikel Azparren to the sports organization chart will boost the virtues of blue and white youth football, one of its historical bastions and one that has brought many joys to the Catalan entity.
