To this day, Middlesbrough are by far the club where Aitor Karanka worked the most, as he spent three and a half years in charge of the English club.
So as Marca today features a long interview to talk about the coach’s ten years on the job, they obviously had many mentions of Boro.
Karanka started by recalling the way he acted once he took charge of Middlesbrough, aiming big things in his first season and drawing huge responsability on his job.
“I remember I gave my first press conference in the English I was speaking at the time and my wife called me crazy. I told her I was even crazier because I had said my aim was to get a team into the Premiership that, at the time, was 3-4 points from relegation to League One. I don’t regret it because in the end it was achieved, but I wouldn’t do it again because I put too much pressure on myself. It was a mistake that came from inexperience”,” said Karanka.
Karanka started his career at Spain’s U-16 squad, having then become José Mourinho’s assistant at Real Madrid.
It was at Middlesbrough that he started his career as a first team manager on the 13th of November 2013, starting a run at Riverside that ended in 80 wins, 40 draws and 49 losses in 169 games.
Karanka left Boro in March 2017. He then stayed in England for jobs at Nottingham Forest and Birmingham, and then left the country to work at Granada and Maccabi Tel Aviv.
Since quitting the Israeli side last summer, he’s been without at job, now at the age of 50.
