These are images that are usually not shared publicly, but that allow you to know the details of a cycle change. The Argentine giorgio sampaoli this Thursday he assumed command in the Seville of Spainafter Julen Lopetegui’s departure, and rejoined the leadership he left in 2018 to lead the Argentine national team at the 2018 World Cup in Russia. In addition, they showed how the first interview with the squad, which counts four compatriots, was.
Sampaoli, just four hours after arriving in the Andalusian capital, en route from Lisbon, took up his new post after signing a contract until June 2024, had lunch with the management and sat next to the sports director, Ramón Rodríguez Verdejo , known to the world as Monchi.
Sevilla, which in two days will receive Athletic Club de Bilbao on the eighth matchday of La Liga, had planned an evening training behind closed doors at the stadium, even if the images offered by the club were limited to the greetings of Casilda’s coach. Santa Fe province, on its new campus.
Shortly before this first contact between the 62-year-old Argentine and his new coaches, Sevilla president José Castro spoke to the players in the locker room and said: “A new phase is beginning and all of us here are doing our best. of ourselves to be in the positions that correspond to us ”.
“It is not a miracle, it is based on hard work. We must have a clean mind and do everything possible to be in our place. Sevilla FC is the most important thing,” Castro said in the presence of the new manager.
“This is a game”
Perhaps the most striking part, because often unknown, that Sevilla showed was the moment in which Sampaoli spoke directly to his players, making it clear that he would then make a “general and individual” speech, but in a private context.
First of all, he agreed with the president that “the important thing is that a new cycle begins” and that “from there begin new hopes, many expectations, and they are all linked to the game”.
He added that it’s about seeing how they can “connect”, between “one person who designs and another who executes”, and that this is always achieved through play.
“This is a game and you have to try to play better. There are no different factors for this, no separate defense or attack, but there is a whole. The game is global and, from it, a lot of things happen and from there We have to start. to play better, “he stressed.
In his opinion, if they succeed, they will surely be “better and the love of the ball will be much easier, and surely there will be meeting points and structures to play the game, which at times seems easy, but is rather complicated”.
Source: Clarin
