The former Argentine coach referred to the passage of the Chilean through the Catalan team. “It was a strange body at the club,” he declared. It also reminded Zamorano.
Jorge Valdano, a former Argentine coach who coached Real Madrid between 1994 and 1996, gave an interview to The Mercury, in which he referred to the passage of Alexis Sanchez for him Barcelona.
In it, the world champion in 1986 assured that the Chilean was not comfortable during his stay in the Catalan team because “He experienced the vicissitudes similar to those of Arturo Vidal, but it seems to me that with less personal complicity with his teammates. He gave the impression that he was a foreign body in the club”, Held.
Along the same lines, he indicated that “You have to have the personality of Luis Suárez or Vidal to avoid being part of the Barça style and not feel self-conscious about that. Alexis is a magnificent player, but I think that in Barcelona, rather than enjoying soccer, he suffered it.”
Of course, he highlighted the qualities of the Inter Milan attacker, ensuring that “He is skillful, fast, cunning, he helps the imbalance; where coaches do not arrive, that type of soccer player arrives.
Moreover, he recalled when he directed Ivan Zamorano, who had to come from behind in the 1994-95 campaign, since the former DT of the Merengues did not have him among his priorities in the title at first and, finally, he ended up being the ‘Pichichi’ of LaLiga.
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“It was an experience that taught me that it is not convenient to go to extremes, because later it is very difficult to return. I know that I was hated in Chile and I verified it when I went there on some occasions. People always behaved respectfully, but I knew how to interpret some murderous look. ”
In addition, he considered Pep Guardiola as the best strategist today. Guardiola, I have no doubts. It marks a great distance with the others, it has been demonstrated in different countries, with different formulas, but always with an attack football, collective, positional, very attractive, very pressing, ambitious. He is an incomparable coach, one of the best in history. ”
Finally, he gave his opinion on the contingency and behind closed doors football. “Soccer without an audience is soccer without a soul. The fan is capable of conditioning the mood of the protagonists. Without people, it is more difficult for the worst to beat the best, one of the elements that make football so attractive, “he concluded.
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