The unexpected reason why García Pimienta and Barça separated their paths

The FC Barcelona will restart his adventure in LaLiga in 2024 confronting to the UD The Palms (04/01) of Julián Araujo, Mika Marble and company, a cast that at present occupies the ninth position in the table. In the last times, the 'pío-pío' have stood out by his attractive style of game, lor that has been attributed partly to the work of Francisco García Pepper, one of the students aventajados of the school of Barcelona technicians and that assumed the reins of the square of the Big Canarian in 2022.

'Pimi', of 49 years of age, had a successful path in the lower divisions of the cast culé, directing in the Cadet To, the Juvenile To and B, and the Barça Atlètic (102 crosses), attaining between other things be champion of the Youth League (2018) and being near to rise with the Atlètic to Second Division in a pair of occasions, although his way was frustrated in pair of occasions thanks to the Sabadell (19/20) and UCAM Murcia (20/21).

Given his credenciales like formador, his knowledge of the idiosyncrasy culé and the support that had by part of several players that had had under his tutela and already did life in the first team, García Pepper seemed to be a valid candidate to direct to the FC Barcelona ina future . Nevertheless, after the arrival of Joan Laporta to his second presidential period in 2021, his future in the club saw truncated, since it did not fit in the plans of the new managerial board, what finished causing his cessation.

The reasons by which García Pepper went out of the Barça

In June of 2021, a year before it finalised his agreement, Rafa Yuste gathered with García Pepper to communicate him his dismissal like technician. The club tried to justify this decision in three points: in the first place, sportive reasons, since the Barça Athletic descended to the First RFEF in his first year under his direction and in the two following years did not attain to rise to Second. This situation persists until the day of today.

Second, it argued an economic reason, affirming that 'Pimi' "earned too much". The third appearance was related with the intention of the new managerial board of the FC Barcelona, led by Laporta, to make a radical change in the estamentos of the basic football. This restructuring also involved the exit of important names like Guillermo Love, Alex García, Aureli Altimira and Jordi Roura.

Even, the Barcelona mandator admitted in his moment that "did not see to the Barça B integrated with the line of Basic Football", although this seemed to be an excuse for what in reality was a remoción total of active by part of the new managerial board, with the end to fill all the structures of the club with people of his full confidence.