Javier Aguirre, the coach with eight Basque surnames and 850 games who never wanted to be a coach. He always expressed his intention of not becoming a coach once he hung up his boots, as he revealed in an interview in La Cope.
Almost three decades and more than 850 games later, the statements of a coach who, at 42 years old, also said that he would retire at 50 and is now 65, cannot be taken very seriously. His journey as a coach covers 14 cities and seven countries. He has rarely been offered a winning project.