The best coach in the history of Hercules; The coach who created the best Hercules in history. Both claims, which no one can question, suffice to define Arsenio Iglesias (1930-2023). No one has gone this far at the head of the Alicante team, no one has taken the Alicante club to a higher level.

Arteixo Witchdied in his native Galicia, came to Hércules By the hand of José Rico Pérez in 1973 with the mission to raise the team to the First Division. That group is glorious like the international eladiostateless Nagyscorer baenaArgentine barrel and in December strengthened with Basque bezeen and Chile airplane carHe scored a promotion with his Pamplona win against Osasuna, immortalized by the goalkeeper’s kneeling gait. Humberto and a famous celebration in Alicante.

The Ascension was nothing more than the prologue to an ongoing love story between Hercules today, given that Hercules never achieved such a feat again. First year in Primera in the hands of Galicia (74-75) with a well-armed team thanks to the arrival of the Argentines Pepe Santoro and Carmelo Hector GiulianoFrom Bilbao Antón Arieta, athletic winger Quique and FC Barcelona’s Canary striker Tigre Barrios, among others, finished in fifth place, with Hércules drawing with Real Sociedad, which retained the place that gave them the right to play. By a small margin in Europe.

Tasked with the uninterrupted support of Rico Pérez, with the collaboration of a teacher in the offices as a manager Manolo Maldonado With the help of Benito Joanet on technical and technical matters, Arsenio was putting together a team piecemeal, and at the slightest opportunity, he avoided witnessing practice sessions to hunt down good players under the threat of leveling from big teams with large squads. competition.

This is how Tigre caught Barrios, the top scorer in the history of Hercules in the First Division, and convinced Barça when Barça announced Cruyff’s signature, an operation that sent the canary to the bench if he stayed at the Camp Nou. Having stayed at the Maya hotel for four years in Alicante (his wife and two children continued to live in La Coruña), Arsenio devoted all his time to football and Hercules.

Under his own supervision, with reports from his technical team, especially Benito Joanet, Cacho Saccardi has arrived, Another of Alicante’s iconic and divine players, Hércules repeated his success in the First Division for the second time in a row, winning sixth place.

In that case, After confirming other acquisitions such as Argentinian Charles and Comisso, German Lubecke or international goalkeeper DeustoHe showed an excellent performance in the King’s Cup, where Real Madrid was eliminated by beating Rico Pérez 3-0 in the first match.

In that tournament, only penalty shootouts in the next draw with Betis deprived Hércules of reaching the semi-finals of the cup competition.

After three consecutive seasons in top flight, Arsenio left Hércules.who have never tasted such a level of perfection again.

His tenure at Deportivo, which he later transformed into Superdepor, and at Real Madrid placed him in the coaching Olympus of that country. Of course, it has already arrived in the skies of Alicante and will remain there forever..