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Chus Herrero will be Gabi’s assistant, who signs only until 2026 with Real Zaragoza
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Chus Herrero will be Gabi’s assistant, who signs only until 2026 with Real Zaragoza

Jun 13, 2025

It is already official: Gabi Fernández He is the coach of Real Zaragoza For next season. The Madrid coach has renewed his contract with the Maño team until 2026, which only implies the coming campaign. In addition, the former team Chus Herrero as an assistant is incorporated.

Gabi stays in the Real Saragossa After his landing last March. In the last part of the last campaign he achieved its mission: save the team from descent to the third category of football. He was not brilliant, but he got something that had been complicated.

The coach continues in the Real Zaragoza, but not with all those who accompanied him in his landing. There is an abundant group of people who are also part of the Aragonese entity. Mario Jiménez is still second coach and Daniel Castro remains as a physical trainer, just like Salvador Sánchez in the preparation of goalkeepers.

One of the novelties is located in Chus Herrero, who now occupies the position of assistant in the Real Zaragoza. Formed in the Sports City, the defender was on the first team between 2005 and 2009. His career took other directions, until he returned to Aragonese football, where he played in El Tarazona, El Brea and El Cuarte.

The figure of Boris Antón is also new, which will act as an assistant. That is, in total there are five people who accompany Gabi in the coaching staff.

The coach landed in Zaragoza with eleven remaining days of the Liguero Championship last year. It was a moment of complexity where the team was struggling to avoid the descent. The technician achieved the permanence of the team in the category, which was consumed on the penultimate day against Deportivo La Coruña in La Romareda.

Written assessments

Real Zaragoza has written some valuations on the website of the agreement announced this Friday. “We are very proud to give continuity to the project with Gabi, which last season took a very brave step to come and save a very difficult situation. We now start together from the beginning a season full of new challenges,” is attributed to the director general, Fernando López.

“We are very happy to have Gabi as coach of Real Zaragoza for the next season. A technician who has already demonstrated his worth in the club, who did an excellent job in a very complicated situation and that he knows very well the house and zaragocist values. For all this, it was the ideal to face our challenge of building a solid project,” he puts in the mouth of the sports director Txema Indias.

Gabi’s

The coach has also had his paragraph: “It is a pride to continue representing the Real Zaragoza and create a project in which I identify me. Now we have to get to work to form a team that, with effort and dedication, get to excite people again and with which the zaragocists feel identified, ”writes the club with the name of Gabi.

This is the continuation of the Gabi stage as a coach at Zaragoza and who already had a previous player wearing the blanquilla elastic.

“From the Real Zaragoza We are proud to have a very prepared coach in our ranks, with zaragocist roots and with a great future ahead, wishing him the best in the beautiful challenge we face together. Good luck, Mr.! ”The entity’s statement ends.