19.07.2010 - SWARCO Raiders part ways with head coach Santos Carrillo
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The SWARCO Raiders and head coach Santos Carrillo as well as offensive coordinator Nicholas Johansen will go separate ways after July 31, 2010. After long and intense considerations both sides, the board of the Tyrolean football team and the two coaches came to this decision. |
"We have intensely analyzed our sports situation and came to the conclusion to go in a new direction. The decision to part ways with Santos Carrillo and Nicholas Johansen was a very hard one", said SWARCO Raiders president Elisabeth Swarovski. The two coaches also came to the decision that a mutual agreed parting would be the best for all parties at this time.
"Both coaches will forever be linked to our two Eurobowl championships in 2008 and 2009. We thank Santos Carrillo and Nicholas Johansen for their work and wish them all the best for their professional career".
The SWARCO Raiders now will take all time necessary to find a new head coach.
Carrillo was the head coach for the Innsbruck-based team for the last two seasons, leading the Tyroleans to their second straight Eurobowl victory in 2009. When the SWARCO Raiders won their first Eurobowl title in 2008, he worked as the Tyroleans defensive coordinator.
Carrillo took over as the team's defensive coordinator in 2007 after starting his stint with the SWARCO Raiders as defensive line coach in 2006. In his very first season in Innsbruck Carrillo was part of the team that won the Austrian Bowl that year. Carrillo came to Tyrol after being the New Mexico Highlands University's head coach the year before.
Thanks to his successful work with the SWARCO Raiders he was also named to the Austrian national team's coaching staff, winning the European C-championships in 2007 and the B-championships a year later.
Johansen was in his first year as the SWARCO Raiders offensive coordinator, after serving as the team's offensive line coach for the previous three seasons. The Rothsay, MN native was a graduate assistant at the university of Wisconsin Eau-Claire from 2005-06 before joining the Tyroleans.
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