Enrique Alfaro, former governor of Jalisco, announced this Friday that he is the new technical assistant of Uruguayan Guillermo Almada, coach of Real Valladolid of the second division of Spain, for the 2025-2026 season.
“Today it fills me with happiness to tell you that the Real Valladolid Football Club will be my new home. That I am going to continue my training process as a technical assistant for the first team in LaLiga2,” said the former official through his social networks.
Enrique Alfaro, who was governor of Jalisco from 2018 to 2024, stated that a little more than two years ago he began preparing to fulfill his dream of training as a coach because he felt that his role in political life had ended.
“Two and a half years ago, when I was about to turn 50, I made the decision to turn my life around. My desire and enthusiasm for politics had run out. So I got to work. I completed my coaching studies on the virtual campus of the ATFA, an Argentine institution that has trained world-class coaches,” he explained.
The now 52-year-old technical assistant thanked Real Valladolid for opening the doors to him to start his career in football.
“Being able to start my career in a professional club in the country with the best football in the world is a dream come true. Also doing so in (a) historic Spanish football club, in a spectacular city, also represents an enormous commitment. That is why I sincerely appreciate the trust of Real Valladolid,” he said.
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He also dedicated a few words to Guillermo Almada, former coach of teams such as Pachuca and Santos Laguna in Mexico; Barcelona of Ecuador; and the Uruguayan River Plate.
“Being able to be close to a coach that I admire like Guillermo Almada is a great honor, it will be an invaluable experience. Joining a great coaching staff and supporting an extraordinary group of players is the task on which I will focus the next few days of my life. Aúpa Pucela!”, Alfaro concluded.
In addition to being governor of Jalisco, Alfaro Ramírez was municipal president of Guadalajara between 2015 and 2018; former mayor of Tlajomulco de Zúñiga between 2012 and 2015; and local deputy between 2007 and 2009.
At the end of his term as governor, in September 2024, the Izaguirre Ranch in Teuchitlán, Jalisco, used by the Jalisco Nueva Generación Cartel as a training site, was secured; But it was not until March of this year that the Guerreros Buscadores de Jalisco collective entered the place, where they found more than 200 pairs of shoes, clothing, notebooks, keychains and bone remains in clandestine graves.
However, so far, the Attorney General’s Office (FGR) has not opened any investigation against Alfaro.
With information from EFE.
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