2013–14 Sporting de Gijón season

Real Sporting
2013–14 season
President Antonio Veiga
Manager Abelardo
Stadium El Molinón
Segunda División 5th
Copa del Rey Second round
Top goalscorer League: Stefan Šćepović
(23 goals)
All: Stefan Šćepović
(23 goals)
Highest home attendance 22,315
Sporting 3–0 Tenerife
Lowest home attendance 13,265
Sporting 0–0 Recreativo
Average home league attendance 17,150
Home colours
Away colours
Third colours

The 2013–14 Sporting de Gijón season is the second season that the club will play in Segunda División after the relegation from the highest tier of football in Spain, La Liga.

Season overview

Preseason

Starting 11 in the first match of 2013–14 Segunda División.

José Ramón Sandoval continued as head coach, despite a 2012–13 season where the team did not promote to La Liga.

Players like Mate Bilić or Juan Pablo who spent several years in Gijón, ended their contract and left the team. Also, David Rodríguez, Cristian Bustos and Bernardo finished their loan and came back to Celta de Vigo and Sevilla. The Colombian defender finally agreed to continue playing for Sporting during the next three seasons.

The first new additions came from Córdoba: Aritz López Garai and Alberto. Both players were free transfers.

On 21 June, president Manuel Vega-Arango resigned after spending 21 years in two stages as chairman of Sporting de Gijón.[1] Antonio Veiga was named acting president while Vega-Arango was proposed as Honorary President of the club.[2]

Hugo Fraile was the first sign in the month, fourth of the summer. He came from Getafe in a free transfer. Days later, Sporting de Gijón confirmed an agreement with Celta de Vigo for loaning Cristian Bustos during one more season. Bustos will be transferred to Sporting until 2016 if the club promotes to La Liga.

On 10 July, the team started the preseason in Mareo.[3] In that same day, Javier Casquero extended his contract one more year.[4] One week later, and after days of rumours, Serbian striker Stefan Šćepović arrived with a three-year loan from Partizan Belgrade. Sporting has an option for buying him at the end of the season or for extending the loan one more season.

Few days before the first friendly game, Isma López arrived from Athletic Bilbao while three footballers left Sporting: Óscar Trejo was transferred by €2.1m to French squad Toulouse FC and Gastón Sangoy and Ricardo León agreed with the club the rescission of their contracts. Argentinian player joined Apollon Limassol from Cyprus and León came back to Tenerife.

Grégory Arnolin played the 2013 CONCACAF Gold Cup with Martinique. The team was eliminated in the Group Stage.

Preseason started on 20 July with a loss in Segovia against English squad Brighton & Hove Albion by 1–2. Four days later, Sporting played its first game in Asturias against Marino de Luanco and solved it with an easy win by 3–0. Stefan Šćepović with two goals.

On 2 August, Asturian young prospect Borja López was transferred to AS Monaco by €2.2 million, and days later, Juan Muñiz was loaned to Mirandés.

Preseason ended with a loss by 1–4 against Villarreal in the classic Trofeo Villa de Gijón. Carlos Carmona scored the goal for Sporting.

August

Sporting started the league on 18 August playing at El Molinón against Real Madrid Castilla. The team of Sandoval won by 1–0 thanks to a beautiful goal of Stefan Šćepović. It was the first time since 2008 Sporting started the league with a win.

The team continued unbeaten in league with a draw at Recreativo de Huelva. Three days later, another Serbian striker was signed on loan: Dejan Lekić from Gençlerbirliği.

September

After a win by 2–0 against Deportivo de La Coruña, which was its fifth game unbeaten in the league, Sporting achivied the direct promotion positions. Stefan Šćepović became the first newcomer in the history of the club which scored in his first five league games.

Previously to this match, Sporting was eliminated of the Copa del Rey after an overtime against Recreativo de Huelva.

The first loss in league arrived in the sixth week at Mendizorroza, where Deportivo Alavés swept Sporting by a devastating 3–0 in the worst game at the moment of the team of Gijón. It was the first game of Šćepović without scoring.

In the next week, Sporting maintained unbeaten at El Molinón after beating Eibar by 3–2 thanks to a hat-trick of Šćepović, who celebrated his call-up with the Serbian national team.

October

October was not a good month for Sporting, with two ties at Numancia and versus Jaén in Gijón and a defeat by 2–1 at Girona despite starting leading the game with a goal of Hugo Fraile.

On 22 October, Stefan Šćepović was nominated by the LFP as September's best player in Segunda División.[5]

November

Dejan Lekić, who scored in the four games of the month of November

Dejan Lekić started to play regularly with Sporting and the team rose up in the league table. The second Serbian striker scored in the four games and contributed decisively to finish the month without being defeated, despite having played only one of the four games in the month at El Molinón. With two wins against Lugo and Sabadell and two ties, with serious refereeing errors, at the stadiums of Córdoba and Murcia[6] (where the referee of the game did not called a penalty after a ball stopped with the hand by Joan Guillem Truyols), Sporting finished the month of November in promotion playoffs positions, with only a difference of three points with the direct promotion positions.

December

As in November, Sporting finished for second month in a row with two wins and two ties, which allowed to finish 2013 in the second position of the league table. A tie at El Molinón against Alcorcón by 2–2 was followed by two wins versus Hércules with a brilliant goal of Santi Jara and Mirandés by 3–2, with the three goals scored by the two Serbian strikers in only six minutes. After this game, Mirandés' coach Gonzalo Arconada was sacked.

The year finished with a 2–2 tie at Mini Estadi, against Barcelona B in a game where Stefan Šćepović goaled at 87', but a fantastic free kick executed by Edu Bedia avoided the loss of the reserve team of Barcelona.

January

On January 4, Sporting was defeated at home by Zaragoza in a controversial game refereed by Andalusian Santos Pargaña, who sent off Luis Hernández, Iván Hernández and Nacho Cases. With eight players and with 2–2 in the scoreboard, Iván Cuéllar saved a penalty kick, but with only two minutes left, Sergio Cidoncha decided the game. In the half time of this match, manager José Ramón Sandoval was assaulted by the assistant coach of Zaragoza.[7] After this game, the club board talked about a "shameful persecution", referring to the controversial refereeing games during the season.[8]

The club finished the first half of the season with a draw without goals at Santa Cruz de Tenerife. This point allowed Sporting to be in the second position after 21 rounds with an advantage of one point with the third qualified team (Eibar) and two with the seventh (Las Palmas).

On 16 January, Aritz López Garai rejected several offers from Spanish, Greek and Cypriot teams, despite not being called by Sandoval since December, and decided to finish the season with the aim of achieving the promotion to La Liga.[9]

Sporting became leader of the league after winning at Alfredo di Stéfano Stadium by 2–1 to Real Madrid Castilla, with the sixteenth goal of Stefan Šćepović, with only 12 minutes left. The team could not retain the leadership the next round; Sporting conceded a no-goals draw with Recreativo de Huelva. On 29 January, vice-captain Alberto Lora renewed its contract until 2018.[10] In the next day, Nacho Cases renewed too for four years.[11]

February

Sporting started the month of February beating Mallorca at Iberostar Estadi by 3–1 in a great game. It continued undefeated by fifth week in a row despite only earning a draw by 1–1 versus Ponferradina. Stefan Šćepović scored his 17th goal and three days later, on February 12, Sporting paid the €1M buyout to Partizan.[12]

On February 16, Sporting earned a draw at Riazor by 1–1. 7,000 fans travelled from Gijón to A Coruña for watching the team against Deportivo. The game started with a goal of Bernardo for the red and whites. Later, in another controversial game, Deportivo missed a penalti kick, a legal goal was not conceded to Stefan Šćepović and Deportivo scored more than one minute after the end of the additional time.[13]

Sporting finished the month earning a win by 2–0 against Deportivo Alavés, with goals made by Carmona and Santi Jara. After this win, the team of Sandoval accumulated seven weeks with no losses and was located in fourth position with 45 points, only one point behind the three leaders (Recreativo de Huelva, Deportivo de La Coruña and Eibar, team which Sporting visited in the first game of March).

March

In a very important game, Eibar defended the leadership sweeping Sporting by 3–0 at Ipurua. Despite this loss and two more weeks without winning (2–2 at home against Numancia and 3–2 versus Jaén), Sporting continued in the fourth position and rose to the third one with a win by 3–1 versus Girona. Dejan Lekić scored twice after several weeks since his last goal.

On March 24, Aritz López Garai, who after being in the Starting XI in the first fourteen games did not play any minute more, was loaned to Córdoba. Six days later, Sporting was defeated by Las Palmas 2–1 in a game where the Serbians missed several opportunities to score. Finally, a doubtful penalty kick gave the three points to the Canarian team.

April

The bad streak continued in the first half of April, taking out Sporting from the promotion playoffs position. Two more losses against Córdoba and Sabadell, started to worry the club board and planned to sack José Ramón Sandoval as Sporting coach. Finally, president Antonio Veiga decided to keep the Madrilenian one more week, waiting to the result and the people reaction after the next game, against Murcia.[14]

On 15 April 2014, Hugo Fraile broke the Anterior cruciate ligament of his left knee. With this important injury, the forward could not finish the season.[15]

In the last game of the month, Sporting defeated Lugo by 2–0, for closing a streak of four games without winning and recovering the spot in the promotion playoffs, lost two weeks before. Stefan Šćepović scored his 22nd goal, six weeks before its last one at Real Jaén.

Abelardo and Jony embraces after the first goal in their debut game.

May

On May 4, after the loss at Alcorcón by 1–0, the club board decided to sack José Ramón Sandoval. Abelardo, manager of the reserve team which won by 1–4 over Real Oviedo the week before, was named his substitute until the end of the season.[16] On May 7, Jony, player of the reserve team, agreed a professional two-year contract with the club.[17]

In the debut game of both, on May 10 versus Hércules, Sporting won by 2–1. Jony scored his first goal and Dejan Lekić finished the comeback.

Sporting started an undefeated streak by earning one point at Mirandés and dropping Barcelona B, third qualified, with the second goal of Jony.

The team finished the month at La Romareda, drawing by 1–1 to Real Zaragoza thanks to a goal of Bernardo in the 88th minute. This point allowed Sporting to finish the month in fifth position with one game to play.

June

Sporting qualified to the promotion playoffs in the last day, with a win against Tenerife by 3–0. In the promotion playoffs, Sporting was dropped in the semifinals by Las Palmas by an aggregate score of 2–0.

Players

Current squad

N
 Pos.
 Nat.
 Name
 Age
 Since
 App
 Goals
 Ends
 Transfer fee
 Notes
1 GK Spain Iván Cuéllar (vice-captain)30 2008 55 0 2015 Free
2 DF Spain Luis Hernández25 2013 21 0 2016 Youth system
4 DF Spain Mandi 25 2012 24 1 2016 Free
5 DF Colombia Bernardo 24 2013 (Winter) 16 1 2016 Free Second nationality: Spain
6 MF Spain Sergio Álvarez22 2013 15 0 2015 Youth system
7 MF Spain Javier Casquero38 2013 (Winter) 9 2 2014 Free
8 MF Spain Álex Barrera23 2012 12 0 2016 Youth system
9 FW Spain Miguel Ángel Guerrero23 2012 17 2 2016 Youth system
10 MF Spain Nacho Cases26 2011 72 3 2018 Youth system
11 MF Spain Alberto Lora (vice-captain)27 2007 134 7 2018 Youth system
12 FW Serbia Stefan Šćepović24 2013 0 0 2018 €1M
14 DF Spain Iván Hernández (captain)34 2007 140 1 2015 Free
15 DF Spain Roberto Canella (vice-captain)26 2006 188 5 2017 Youth system
16 FW Serbia Dejan Lekić28 2013 0 0 2014 N/A
17 FW Spain Santi Jara23 2013 15 3 2016 Youth system
18 MF Spain Isma López24 2013 0 0 2016 N/A
19 MF Spain Carlos Carmona26 2012 32 4 2016 Free
21 FW Spain Hugo Fraile27 2013 0 0 2015 Free
22 MF Guinea-Bissau Formose Mendy25 2012 (Winter) 23 0 2016 Youth system Second nationality: France
23 MF Spain Cristian Bustos31 2013 (Winter) 16 0 2014 N/A
24 FW Spain Álex Serrano19 2013 0 0 2015 Youth system
25 GK Spain Alberto 29 2013 0 0 2017 Free
  • Last updated: 12 February 2014
  • Source:Stats updated as of the end of the 2012–13 season, ages updated as of the end of the 2013–14 season
  • Ordered by squad number.

Youth system

Note: Flags indicate national team as defined under FIFA eligibility rules. Players may hold more than one non-FIFA nationality.

No. Position Player
26 Spain DF Álex Menéndez
27 Spain DF Julio
29 Spain FW Guillermo
30 Spain GK Dennis
No. Position Player
32 Spain MF Pablo Pérez
33 Spain MF Jony
35 France FW Yacine

In

N
 Pos.
 Nat.
 Name
 Age
 Moving from
 Type
 Transfer
window		 Ends
 Transfer
fee		 Source
20 MF Spain Aritz López Garai 32 Córdoba Transfer Summer 2015 Free Real Sporting
8 MF Spain Álex Barrera 22 Youth system Promoted Summer 2016 N/A
9 FW Spain Miguel Ángel Guerrero 22 Youth system Promoted Summer 2016 N/A
17 FW Spain Santi Jara 22 Youth system Promoted Summer 2016 N/A
6 MF Spain Sergio Álvarez 21 Youth system Promoted Summer 2015 N/A
25 GK Spain Alberto 28 Córdoba Transfer Summer 2018 Free Real Sporting
5 DF Colombia Bernardo 23 Sevilla Transfer Summer 2016 Free Real Sporting
21 FW Spain Hugo Fraile 26 Getafe Transfer Summer 2015 Free Real Sporting
23 MF Spain Cristian Bustos 30 Celta de Vigo Loan Summer 2014 N/A Real Sporting
12 FW Serbia Stefan Šćepović 23 Partizan Serbia Loan Summer 2016 N/A Real Sporting
18 MF Spain Isma López 23 Athletic Bilbao Transfer Summer 2016 N/A Real Sporting
24 FW Spain Álex Serrano 18 Youth system Promoted Summer 2016 N/A El Comercio
16 FW Serbia Dejan Lekić 28 Gençlerbirliği Turkey Loan Summer 2014 N/A Real Sporting

Total expenditure: €0 million

Out

N
 Pos.
 Nat.
 Name
 Age
 Moving to
 Type
 Transfer
window		 Transfer
fee		 Source
20 MF Spain Miguel de las Cuevas 26 Osasuna Transfer Summer €1.2m Todomercadoweb
1 GK Spain Juan Pablo 34 Maccabi Tel Aviv Israel End of contract Summer Free Real Sporting
18 FW Spain David Rodríguez 27 Celta de Vigo Loan return Summer N/A
23 MF Spain Cristian Bustos 30 Celta de Vigo Loan return Summer N/A
16 DF Colombia Bernardo 23 Sevilla Loan return Summer N/A
9 FW Croatia Mate Bilić 32 RNK Split Croatia End of contract Summer N/A Real Sporting
13 GK Spain Raúl [18] 26 Sestao River End of contract Summer N/A Real Sporting
17 MF Spain Marcos Landeira 26 Caudal End of contract Summer N/A Fútbol Asturiano
24 FW Argentina Óscar Trejo 25 Toulouse France Transfer Summer €2.1m Real Sporting
10 FW Argentina Gastón Sangoy 28 Apollon Limassol Cyprus Mutual consent Summer Free Real Sporting
5 MF Spain Ricardo León 30 Tenerife Mutual consent Summer Free Real Sporting
12 DF France Grégory 32 Paços de Ferreira Portugal Contract terminated Summer Free Real Sporting
20 DF Spain Borja López 19 Monaco France Transfer Summer €2.2m Real Sporting
8 MF Spain Juan Muñiz 21 Mirandés Loan Summer N/A CD Mirandés
3 DF Spain Pedro Orfila 25 Racing Santander Loan Summer N/A Real Sporting
20 MF Spain Aritz López Garai 32 Córdoba Loan N/A Real Sporting

Total income: €5.5 million

Net income: Increase €5.5 million

Technical staff

Position Staff
Manager Abelardo Fernández
Assistant Manager Iñaki Tejada
Goalkeeping Coach Isidro Fernández
Physical Fitness Coach Gerardo Ruiz
Director of Football Raúl Lozano
Delegate Quini
Academy Director José María M. Acebal

Source: Sporting de Gijón Official Website

Managerial changes

Outgoing manager Manner of departure Date of vacancy Replaced by Date of appointment Position in table
José Ramón Sandoval Sacked 4 May 2014 Abelardo 4 May 2014 7th

Competitions

Pre-season and friendlies

Segunda División

League table

Pos
 Team
 Pld
 W
 D
 L
 GF
 GA
 GD
 Pts
Qualification or relegation
3 Barcelona B 42 20 6 16 60 47 +13 0661
4 Murcia 42 16 17 9 55 44 +11 65 Promotion play-offs
5 Real Sporting 42 16 16 10 63 51 +12 64
6 Las Palmas 42 18 9 15 51 50 +1 63
7 Córdoba 42 16 13 13 47 43 +4 61

Results summary

OverallHomeAway
PldWDLGFGAGDPtsWDLGFGAGDWDLGFGAGD
42 16 16 10 63 51  +12 64 12 6 3 39 21  +18 4 10 7 24 30  −6

Positions by round

Round123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142
GroundHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAH
ResultWDWDWLWDDLLDWDWDWWDLDWDWDDWLDLWLLLDWLWDWDW
Position5633144236811586533222122344444345886766455

Source: BDFútbol
A = Away; H = Home; W = Win; D = Draw; L = Loss

Matches

Play-offs

Matches

Copa del Rey

Matches

Statistics

Appearances and goals

No. Pos Nat Player TotalSegunda DivisiónPlay-offsCopa del Rey
AppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
1 GK Spain Iván Cuéllar 42040+002+000+00
2 DF Spain Luis Hernández 39133+312+001+00
4 MF Spain Mandi 33130+111+000+10
5 DF Colombia Bernardo 40238+022+000+00
6 MF Spain Sergio Álvarez 30227+022+001+00
7 MF Spain Javier Casquero 1202+900+001+00
8 MF Spain Álex Barrera 38332+630+000+00
9 FW Spain Miguel Ángel Guerrero 1510+1210+201+00
10 MF Spain Nacho Cases 27223+320+100+00
11 MF Spain Alberto Lora 37029+602+000+00
12 FW Serbia Stefan Šćepović 412339+0232+000+00
14 DF Spain Iván Hernández 18115+100+101+01
15 DF Spain Roberto Canella 37135+111+000+00
16 FW Serbia Dejan Lekić 361321+12122+000+11
17 MF Spain Santi Jara 33216+1520+101+00
18 FW Spain Isma López 21113+611+000+10
19 MF Spain Carlos Carmona 36717+1672+001+00
20 MF Spain Aritz López Garai 14014+000+000+00
21 FW Spain Hugo Fraile 20315+530+000+00
22 MF Guinea-Bissau Formose Mendy 1300+1200+001+00
23 MF Spain Cristian Bustos 17011+501+000+00
24 FW Spain Álex Serrano 202+000+000+00
25 GK Spain Alberto 402+100+001+00
26 DF Spain Álex Menéndez 703+201+001+00
27 DF Spain Julio 100+000+001+00
29 FW Spain Guillermo 000+000+000+00
30 GK Spain Dennis 000+000+000+00
32 MF Spain Pablo Pérez 301+200+000+00
33 MF Spain Jony 725+021+100+00
35 FW France Yacine Qasmi 000+000+000+00

Disciplinary record

N P Nat. Name 2ª División Playoffs Copa del Rey Total Notes
17 FW Spain Santi Jara 6 1 1 6 2
1 GK Spain Iván Cuéllar 5 1 5 1
25 GK Spain Alberto 1 1 One sent off being in bench
5 DF Colombia Bernardo 17 1 2 19 1
11 MF Spain Alberto Lora 10 1 10 1 6 times captain
10 MF Spain Nacho Cases 8 1 1 9 1
14 DF Spain Iván Hernández 9 1 9 1 16 times captain
19 MF Spain Carlos Carmona 7 1 1 8 1
2 DF Spain Luis Hernández 7 1 7 1 One yellow card retired
9 FW Spain Miguel Ángel Guerrero 1 1 1 1
4 MF Spain Mandi 17 17 One yellow card retired
21 FW Spain Hugo Fraile 9 9
6 MF Spain Sergio Álvarez 6 1 1 8
16 FW Serbia Dejan Lekić 7 1 8
15 DF Spain Roberto Canella 5 5 23 times captain
12 FW Serbia Stefan Šćepović 4 4
20 MF Spain Aritz López Garai 4 4
23 MF Spain Cristian Bustos 4 4
18 FW Spain Isma López 3 3
7 MF Spain Javier Casquero 2 2
8 MF Spain Álex Barrera 2 2
22 MF Guinea-Bissau Formose Mendy 1 1
24 FW Spain Álex Serrano 1 1
26 DF Spain Álex Menéndez 1 1

Source: Competitive matches and RFEF.es
Ordered by , and
= Number of bookings; = Number of sending offs after a second yellow card; = Number of sending offs by a direct red card.

Man of the match

The Man of the match is selected by Sporting de Gijón fans in the official website every week Iafter the game.[19] 100 points will be given to the most voted player, 50 to the second one and 25 to the third one.

After the end of the main league, Stefan Šćepović was named winner of the trophy.[20]

See also

References

  1. ↑ Manuel Vega-Arango deja la presidencia del Real Sporting; Real Sporting, 21 June 2013
  2. ↑ Nota oficial del Consejo de Administración del Real Sporting; Real Sporting, 24 June 2013
  3. ↑ Comenzó la pretemporada rojiblanca Sporting de Gijón, 10 July 2013
  4. ↑ Casquero vuelve a vestirse de rojiblanco Sporting de Gijón, 10 July 2013
  5. ↑ Prizes for the month’s best performers in Liga BBVA and Liga Adelante
  6. ↑ El Sporting sigue sin ganar fuera; Marca, 16 November 2013
  7. ↑ Sandoval, agredido por el segundo entrenador del Zaragoza; El Mundo, 5 January 2014 (in Spanish)
  8. ↑ «Esta persecución ya es un poco lamentable»; El Comercio, 5 January 2014 (in Spanish)
  9. ↑ López Garai sigue en el Sporting con "el objetivo claro del ascenso"; Real Sporting website, 16 January 2014 (in Spanish)
  10. ↑ Lora ha renovado su contrato por cuatro temporadas; Sporting de Gijón, 29 January 2014 (in Spanish)
  11. ↑ Nacho Cases ha renovado por cuatro temporadas; Sporting de Gijón, 30 January 2014 (in Spanish)
  12. ↑ El Sporting es ya propietario de los derechos de Scepovic; Sporting de Gijón, 12 February 2014 (in Spanish)
  13. ↑ La polémica acabó siendo la gran protagonista en Riazor; Marca, 17 February 2014 (in Spanish)
  14. ↑ «Hemos decidido dar continuidad a Sandoval. Está convencido de que meterá al equipo arriba»; El Comercio, 15 April 2014
  15. ↑ Se terminó la temporada para Hugo Fraile: rotura del ligamento cruzado anterior de su rodilla izquierda; Real Sporting, 15 April 2014 (in Spanish)
  16. ↑ Abelardo Fernández sustituye a Sandoval como entrenador del Sporting Archived 4 May 2014 at the Wayback Machine.; Real Sporting, 4 May 2014 (in Spanish)
  17. ↑ Jony firmó dos temporadas por el primer equipo; Realsporting.com, 7 May 2014 (in Spanish)
  18. ↑ Raúl Domínguez signed with Sestao River in the Winter transfer window.
  19. ↑ Polls at Sporting website
  20. ↑ http://www.realsporting.com/wrsg/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=4241:scepovic-recogio-el-trofeo-pronorte-al-mejor-jugador-de-la-temporada-20132014&catid=36:actualidad&Itemid=186 Scepovic recogió el Trofeo Pronorte al mejor jugador de la Temporada 2013/2014; Real Sporting, 18 June 2014
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