Eneko Zabaleta returns to Pontevedra CF three years later

Eneko Zabaleta returns to Pontevedra CF. And that after he played a season and a half in the burgundy club in years marked by the pandemic and instability on the bench. The Basque defender returns to play for the club he joined in the 2020 winter market. Roberto Feáns introduced him on January 30 in a season that ended abruptly due to covid on March 8 of that year. The team remained virtually intact the following season when the league resumed with a two-subdivision format that was rearranged mid-season to fight for regularity or promotion. Eneko Zabaleta saw three coaches change. They started with Luismi, continued with Carlos Pous and Luisito packed the furniture in extremis. At the end of that 2020/21 season, Eneko Zabaleta left Pontevedra CF and went to Calahorra. Now he comes to the club from Atlético Paso.

Now, three years later, the defender is returning to the Bordeaux team. When Roberto Feáns, the sporting director at the time, announced his signing, the player explained that he had come to defend. “They insisted a lot on me and I liked the Pontevedra project,” Zabaleta said on January 30. Today everything has changed. Even the project. The league was restructured and the team was relegated. Now it’s time to fight your way back to the First Federation.

The Basque side is the third signing in a week of numerous changes at the house of grenades. It started with the renewal of Churre and the signing of Chiqui and Charly to continue with the general meeting of shareholders that approved the support of the board of directors so that it could now decide on the conditions under which the capital increase would be launched. The current arrival of Eneko Zabaleta confirms what coach Yago Iglesias said this Thursday about the signings. Pontevedra CF has been in contact with many players to offer them the project and stressed that “usually it takes time, but they happen when they have to.” Both Charles, from the technical secretariat, and Iglesias convey to the players the “exciting and medium-term” project of the team’s return to the First Federation.