The fight for permanence in the First Division is so fierce that changes in coach are the order of the day in order to seek a reaction from the teams that are flirting with relegation. The last two to make the decision have been Real Mallorca and Deportivo Alavés and, curiously, in both cases, two Mallorcan coaches have entered the shadow of the two technicians who have taken charge of both teams.
Javier Aguirre has arrived in Mallorca accompanied by a 45-year-old Majorcan, Toni Amor, with many kilometers traveled on the bench, while, in the Basque teamJulio Velázquez has taken the reins of Alavés accompanied by another Mallorcan, Jaume Mut (58 years old) a Balearic football classic with more than thirty years on the benches of the third division.
But the curiosities do not stop there, and it is that, in three days, Mut will visit Son Moix to face Toni Amor’s Mallorca, something similar to what happened two years ago when Aguirre and Amor’s Leganés faced Palma against Majorca.
Toni Amor has managed Arenal (2003-2005), Atlético Baleares (2005-2007), Mallorca B (2007-2010), San Francisco Juvenil (2010-2011) and Ibiza (2017-2018) on the island. Later, he packed his bags to train in Arab football, always as an assistant in clubs such as Al-Hilal, Al-Wahda or Al-Shabab, between Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates and later in Leganés and Monterrey, together with Javier Aguirre with the who has returned home.
For his part, Jaume Mut has always managed clubs on the island such as Ferriolense, Manacor (in two stages), Campos, Cardessar, Santanyí, Felanitx or Atlético Baleares Juvenil. Currently, at the head of Manacor, Mut was second in the Third Division, twelve points behind the leader and virtual champion Mallorca B.
In his long career, Mut promoted Manacor to Segunda B in the 2010-11 season and two years ago he played in the promotion phase, without a prize, with Felanitx in the first time that this team reached such heights. The Majorcan coach has played 9 promotion playoffs to Second B and has directed 19 years of his 34 career in the Balearic group of the Third Division.
Curiously, Mut goes from fighting Mallorca B for promotion to the Second-Federation to fighting Real Mallorca for avoiding relegation to the Second Division.
Two Majorcan technicians, appreciated and well regarded on the island who will now compete from their position in the shadows with Javier Aguirre and Julio Velázquez at the head of their new challenges, saving Mallorca and Alavés.