Pachi Martí resigns as Fertiberia Puerto Sagunto coach

Fertiberia Puerto Sagunto’s Valencian coach has resigned after the first half of this Bauhaus Asobal league season ended with the team in the relegation places for the División de Honor Plata.

Martí (Valencia, 1963) thus completes a two-and-a-half-season spell in charge of the red-and-white project, after spending several seasons away from the elite benches following the disappearance of BM Valencia.

The Fertiberia Puerto Sagunto Board of Directors wishes to thank Pachi Martí for his commitment, work and good management of the first team during this period, as well as for his courage in requesting his resignation at such a crucial sporting moment as the end of the first half of the season, in such a delicate sporting situation.

 In this regard, his vice-president Carlos Argente says “In sport, the rope is always broken at the same point: the coach’s. We hope this change of cycle will also allow the squad to carry out a thorough self-criticism of its performance in this first part of the season. It is always easier for one person to leave than sixteen, but this squad must now step up and demonstrate that its quality is not that of the Liga’s second-bottom side. The new coach who arrives will have to be judged on performance, but the players even more so, because they share responsibility for our current situation. I am sure they understand this and will perform in line with their prestige and quality; there is still time.”

While the Fertiberia Board begins searching for Martí’s replacement, one commitment remains this coming Tuesday: the Copa del Rey round of 16 against F.C. Barcelona Lassa. For this match, the board chaired by Bataller decided at an extraordinary meeting held this Sunday morning that the team would be taken charge of by the current red-and-white assistant coach, Nacho García Aguiar “Tiri”. Regarding Martí’s current assistants, physical trainer Pere Vicent Saez, a close confidant of the outgoing red-and-white coach, is also leaving.

Translation produced using artificial intelligence.