Who’s who in the coaching staff who will accompany Martín Demichelis to River

The last signings that were missing to start retracing the Martín Demichelis cycle took place at the end of the week. Thus, with vice-president Matías Patanian at the helm, the collaborators of the new coach sealed the bond. Now all that remains is to define some details for the preseason which will take place in two stages: from 12 to 22 December in Potrero de los Funes and, after the holidays, from 3 to 18 January in Miami.

How was Demichelis’s team formed, who has assured that he has no intention of coming to Argentina with the Germans? The technician himself said so at the press conference. And he made it clear that his group is not dependent on friendship. “My best friends in life are in the city,” he said. We’ll have to look for them in Justiniano Posse, where he was born 41 years ago.

“I have formed a group of great humanity, great ability, loyalty and a sense of belonging to the institution. With Javi We started contacting us two years ago. He told me about the licence, I would have liked to face us in a Bayern-Nuremberg match. He went without seeing us for a while after the Selection and I realized that he had incorporated a lot of German culture. He said ‘this is german, i like this’. With the course I was doing here, I knew we couldn’t be together in Europe, but the planets aligned,” she said.

Javi it is pine nut. With a past as a footballer in the Bundesliga, a championship that he played with Nuremberg for a decade (from 2005 to 2015), there is an affinity. But as Demichelis well explained, the license in Argentina did not allow him to conduct in Germany.

Pinola, who retired in tears last week to join Demichelis’ coaching staff, he did his coaching course together with Germán Lux, the other assistant on the pitch, and Bruno Zuculini, who still continues to play with the red armband and it’s a long way from retirement. All three graduated from the José Urben Farías de Vicente López school.

Lux, who has saved more than 100 games at River, had decided to hang up his gloves a year ago. Hence, Marcelo Gallardo tried to keep him attached to the club. He still wasn’t thinking of leaving. Low profile, he has always been a point of reference, even without being a starter. Much appreciated for your expertise.

“The Sense of Belonging” what Demichelis talks about is not only reflected in Pinola and Lux. Moreover, in Flavio Pérez. The physical trainer knows the club’s halls because he worked between 2000 and 2005 with Américo Rubén Gallego, Manuel Pellegrini and Leonardo Astrada. At that stage, in fact, he had a young Demichelis at his orders, who was then beginning to show his conditions as a central point of reference.

Pérez had been having conversations with the brand new millionaire coach. “I always look at European teams and today Bayern Munich has changed a lot, they are becoming more and more technical and I have contact with Martín Demichelis and he tells me how they work,” he said in an interview in January. It has a lot of influence on methodology, biomedicine and nutrition.

The other maestro is Diego Riberi, who doesn’t have a past at the club, but had a relationship with a former River man. He was a physical trainer for Guillermo Pereyra in Santamarina de Tandil. In San Martín de Tucumán, meanwhile, he accompanied a former Boca, Diego Cagna.

Alejandro Saccone will be the goalkeeping coach. He trained in the lower leagues of the Núñez club, where he stayed between 1997 and 2005. During that time he was on loan. He knows River’s idiosyncrasy, of course. And he is a teacher. Until now he had lectured at the ATFA (Association of Argentine Football Coaches).

And there will be a woman. This is Dr. Mariela Arangio, who will occupy the role of Sandra Rossi, who arrived with Gallardo and who will now be the Head of the Institution’s Department of Neuroscience.