the Garitano, another saga of soccer players

Last update 9 April, 2024 by Alberto Llopis

Do you know the Garitano saga??

Bad Garitano surprised the world in 2014 by promoting with Eibar from Second B to First with one of the smallest budgets that are remembered in a professional team and also, make a dream first round but then ended his tour as bad as coach of Deportivo, Almería or other teams like Athletic. In addition to his second stage at Éibar, remaining at the gates of promotion.

A coach, born in 1975 and he started training soon after hanging up his boots in 2008. Previously, he was a youth player from Athletic, Eibar and Real Sociedad. However, Gaizka is not the only Garitano who is or has been dedicated to professional football.

Gaizka Garitano is the nephew of Ander Garitano (1969) former soccer player for Athletic and Zaragoza where he stood out for his great left foot. He even managed Zaragoza in the Primera after hanging up his boots and his subsidiary. It is also son of Angel Garitano (1950), the eternal squire Jose Manuel Esnal Mane Alaves, Levante and Athletic among the many teams where he was with the Basque coach.

Asier Garitano does not belong to this family

Asier Jankovic (1969 y, Also former Athletic youth player and coach, It's not family despite sharing a last name.. Asier has trained teams like Alcoyano and Orihuela. But he is remembered in his time at Leganés, which he promoted and kept in the First Division for several years., to Real Sociedad and Deportivo Alavés, also in the top category and to CD Tenerife in the Second Division.

Other footballer sagas

Another saga confirms that football and other trades, It can also be a family tradition. We have many examples like Ayew, los McAllister, los Ñiguez, the Gento-Llorente, many brothers have agreed and coincide in this world of football and the large number of parents and children who have been passed over from generation to generation. Caste comes to the greyhound.