When he expressed in December 2019 that “whoever has to come comes the structure is fully consolidated”, Marcelo Gallardo specifically referred to the legacy that will leave River when he enters his post Napoleonic period to which he made mention Enzo Francescoli: a series of building and organizational modifications that They have allowed the club to enhance not only the performance of the Primera team but also the development of different areas. who currently work holistically.
The modernization of River Camp It was one of the projects that were faced during the cycle Gallardo: An investment of approximately $ 2,000,000 that arose from a sketch that the coach himself had designed and that aimed to structurally improve the Ezeiza training ground.
In 2016 the first part of the work was inaugurated, which included three new courts with the measurements of the Monumental, two half football pitches reduced, a sectioned locker room with many amenities, neuroscience, kinesiology, psychology and nutrition departments, in addition to a dining room. And later they have been gradually incorporating new amenities for Youth and First. To this megaproject was added the Hurlingham property for the smallest categories. Although what the DT will leave will transcend the bricks.
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Why Gallardo He was an ideologist -and is a permanent supervisor- of the Child-Youth Project of the club that has faced in 2017. A comprehensive work that aims not only at River have a homogeneous style in all categories, but also to accompany the growth of juveniles (in addition to coaches and physical trainers on the staff there are psychologists and nutritionists), enhance their technical strengths (there are specific areas to work in different roles) and generate a sense of belonging with the institution. In the long term, the great dream of the DT is a First team made up of youth squads.
The River property in Hurlingham, another one designed by El Muñeco to enhance the development of the youth project.
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Ariel Ortega is one of the specialists working in the area of improvement of the individual technique. Now he plays his role through Zoom.
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RiverThrough this comprehensive project, he even reinforced an area that he considers essential: recruitment. Currently, as he was able to find out Olé, around 70,000 children are observed per year in different tests carried out in different strategic points of Argentina. A task that has not stopped during the social, preventive and compulsory isolation decreed by the national government and that will continue in force – at a minimum – until July 17. And is that through WhatsApp scouting managers have already received about 7,000 videos to observe future talents. The best will be summoned once the quarantine for a test in Ezeiza has ended.
Although maybe what generates the most intrigue is what will happen to the Primera team once Gallardo leave River. If this happens in December 2021, when your contract expires, several footballers will remain as pillars of a structure: Enzo Pérez and Nacho Fernandez they renewed their contracts until June 30, 2023, while the CD negotiates to stretch the bond of Matías Suárez Until that date. Franco Armani and Lucas Pratto, in turn, also have a contractual relationship that exceeds the hypothetical end of the MG cycle. There will be references. There will be a “consolidated structure”, as the coach himself asserted. So that everything remains the same, although it will not be the same.
