Paco Jémez returns to Rayo Vallecano

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Paco Jémez and Rayo Vallecano re-unite their paths. The franjirrojo club has announced on Wednesday the hiring of the coach of 48 years for the remainder of the campaign and another. The Canary substitutes Míchel, recently dismissed, and assumes the challenge of trying to save the team from the descent when there are only ten days left until the end of the championship and the Vallecanos are in the nineteenth position of the table with 23 points in their locker, six of salvation that mark Villarreal and Valladolid.

It will be the second stage of Jémez, which will debut against Betis on March 31, as Rayo's coach. In the first he led the franjirrojo club for four seasons, between 2012 and 2016, establishing the club's longest period in the First Division. In the first season of the Canary in front of the bench, the Vallecanos achieved their best historical classification in LaLiga, reaching the eighth place. Already in its last year, in 2015-2016, the entity Vallecana and Jémez separated their roads after consummating the descent of the club to the Second Division.

  

Since leaving Vallecas, where he arrived after training at Cordoba, the former Spanish international has been in charge of three clubs. In 2016 he directed Granada, who dismissed him after only achieving two points in the first six league games. After passing through the Nazari club, Jémez signed for the Mexican Cruz Azul in November of the same year. Despite qualifying the team for the 2017 Clausura after three seasons of absence, he rescinded his contract after being eliminated in the quarterfinals by América. His last experience in the benches was linked to the Las Palmas Sports Union, where he landed in 2018 in a situation similar to that which now comes to Vallecas. On that occasion, Jémez signed with 17 games left for the end of the season and with the Canarian team, which he did not manage to save, in relegation places.

Míchel gives the approval to the arrival of Jémez

Before the arrival of Jémez on the bench became official, Míchel offered a press conference in which he said goodbye to the club and the fans of Rayo. "Thanks to the club for all that it has given me, as a footballer, as a director of the quarry methodology and as a coach, I am moved by the memories, for the wonderful moments, especially for the people. club that is a big family, the fans, Rayo loses a coach but wins one more fan, "the 43-year-old coach said yesterday.

Asked about the possible choice of Jémez as his substitute, Michel was optimistic about his arrival: "It would be good for me, I learned a lot from him and he will have a one hundred percent squad to achieve it, the most important are the players. that is will have a wardrobe in which all row in the same direction ".

The Spaniard, who trained Rayo since February 2017 and achieved the promotion to First last year, did not want to close the door to a possible return to the club. "I've gone twice, I left as a player against my will because the club needed him and today as a coach I go against my will, a rayista never gives up, there may be a third," he said. Míchel, who already played for 15 campaigns as a player in the ranks of Rayo.