\n Initially having arrived as rehab coach in 2022, Carmona remained in situ as a sport scientist during the 2023\/24 campaign before two years as a fitness coach.\n<\/p>\n
\n The Spaniard has worked under a series of head coaches in that time, most recently Tom Cleverley, Paulo Pezzolano, Javi Gracia and Ed Still.\n<\/p>\n
\n He posted on Instagram: “I came here for something that was only supposed to be for 3 months\u2026and you turned it into 4 years. The goal was simply to be there, but I never imagined that the way could matter so much.\n<\/p>\n
\n “I’ve been lucky to work with great professionals, but above all, great people. And to those visits that made the winters a little easier\u2026 thank you.\n<\/p>\n
\n “And to you, players \u2014 just remember that I always tried to do what was best for you, even when you didn\u2019t like it.\n<\/p>\n
\n “And like always, every morning, every training session, every match\u2026I hope you remember me smiling.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Carmona is evidently well-liked among the players, who commented below the post.\n<\/p>\n
\n Watford players comment (Image: Javier Fernandez Carmona Instagram)\n<\/p>\n
\n Kwadwo Baah simply described him as “the best”, while former defender Francisco Sierralta posted: “Tremendous professional and tremendous person. Much success in the new stage my friend.”\n<\/p>\n
\n Giorgi Chakvetadze and Mattie Pollock also sent their well-wishes.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Initially having arrived as rehab coach in 2022, Carmona remained in situ as a sport scientist during the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":427477,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[565,134,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-427476","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-fitness","tag-fitness","tag-health","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427476","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=427476"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/427476\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/427477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=427476"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=427476"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=427476"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}