08.02.2009 10:47
Roger Bogunyà
Sporting Gijon is closer to qualifying for Europe than relegation. A curiosity of their season is that they haven’t drawn a single game with 12 defeats and 9 wins out of their 21 matches so far.
Enrique Castro González, better known as ‘Quini', returns to Camp Nou in the least expected way. The ex-Barça player and current club delegate at Sporting Gijon will be in charge in the dugout after head coach Manuel Preciado and second coach Iñaki Tejada were sent off against Seville and hence are banished to the stands.
Quini is remembered in Barcelona for his goal scoring skills. He played for the club from 1980
to 1984 and slotted home 101 goals in 178 games. With the Catalan outfit he won the Cup
Winners’ Cup, the Spanish Super Cup, the League Cup and two King’s Cups, one of them
against his boyhood team Sporting Gijon in a final in which he scored twice. He was top scorer in
the First Division on five occasions and twice in the Second.
But Quini will have to watch his step quite literally this evening. As delegate he is not
allowed to enter the technical area reserved for head and second coaches, so he will have to give
his instructions from the bench.