Our mouths fill when it comes to extolling the figure of a character when they come in handy. Everything is blows to the chest and the head affirming (even with raising of eyebrows), as if letting fall that for you there are no doubts. That I know of this for a while. That same conviction is transformed into an irremediable repulsion when the same protagonist begins to turn his back on that afore
tunado destiny that he had been drawing with his work the previous months. It doesn’t matter if they are six or 30, like who concerns us in this article. There has been endless debate about the
suitability of Julen Lopetegui continuing to be Sevilla’s leader on the bench.
The fact that he had two years left on his contract was hardly an added value.
The last four months seemed to have thrown away the work of three years
, with the unequivocal support of the results. However, in the Sánchez-Pizjun they are more nonconformist (here it is not a compliment) than the word itself. And sometimes even more within the structure of the club itself than in the stands, where the figure of the coach has been mostly supported. As MARCA announced two weeks ago,
After the first face-to-face meeting between Monchi and Julen, all roads led to understanding.
Sevilla, despite the wear and tear, was not going to dismiss its coach. And Lopetegui himself was convinced to continue. White and bottled.
Everything that has been sold after
with a certain detachment from important people towards Asteasu’s own trainer,
they were more classic amateur wishful thinking than real knowledge of what was going to happen.
Everything is solved by talking. Oh surprise! Now it’s time to say that there were never any doubts. It depends from which part.
The peace pipe smoked between Lopetegui and Monchi is still warm. Don’t get dizzy when you get up from the chair.
It is worth remembering that Sevilla can also aspire to a long-term project. Not everything should be scorched earth every so often. One of three years has been completed. A part, not the whole.
That in the worst year of the three they finished fourth with 70 points should be a clear indication that changing is a mistake
, as much as the body asks you to see new faces. As a good friend says,
Seville likes too much a signing.
On whatever plot.
And not all of them turn out well, obviously.
defects and vices
The reconstruction of this summer will be easier if the coach who has installed the bottom of the team at 70 points continues to lead.
He knows the defects of the squad, the vices of the locker room and which footballer is already more than amortized.
Opening the dressing room windows is almost as necessary as hitting the new additions. Another new face on the bench would have accepted the demands or suggestions made to him by the club. They would be worth more players than Lopetegui. Sure.
That tension between the one who records and trains them is always positive, as long as the rope that unites them is strong.
One requires results and commitment, while the other requires the necessary elements to achieve those results that the club demands. The usual story in football. What happens is that
at Sevilla the coach has rarely emerged as a leading figure.
In reference. In a man with such strength and weight that the immense shadow of the sports director no longer completely covers him.
That in the world of football we all believe that the only gentleman who rules is money, but his ego is never far behind.
Also taking care of what place corresponds to each one, from daily work, to the management of success and failure, will result in the tension to win even in training being more bearable. For all parts.
It is obvious that there is or should be that certain uncertainty, doubt or suspicion of how the next season will be born and
if the friendly hug of undisputed continuity can end in one of the bear if the ball weighs as much as in the last months of the previous exercise.
If by September the team did not fuel and the patience of the first year with Lopetegui, who achieved results very quickly, it is not such, no matter how much half the squad is changed and the logical process of deep revolutions entails or needs some time for the machinery works like clockwork.
Lopetegui is not going to miss a single one. I have it very clear.
From all sectors. Many would have breathed with his farewell (if he had come out of himself) because it is easier to sell a year of transition than of continuity.
Each loss (and look how little he loses) will be attributed to the coach.
He knows it too, and yet he risks tearing his immaculate suit (or tracksuit) as Sevilla manager. We tend to think that the one who is most at stake in this decision to continue is Sevilla itself and we are probably wrong in that statement.
It has been through his time at Sevilla that Julen has recovered his credit as an elite coach.
He was able to make the leap a year ago and decided to continue growing in Nervin. He didn’t want to get off the ship. And the first waves against it was not welcomed that nobody pushed him.
Good marriages are the ones that tell each other the truth to each other’s faces
and they go to sleep with a clear conscience because they know they have done their best to make their lives as happy as possible. And oh they continue. Embraced. That when you find the right person is not a plan to say goodbye at the first setback.
It’s called maturing. And in football, stability. A present project. With past and future. And with Lopetegui, of course.
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