After leaving José Amalfitani de Liniers in silence, after his 2-2 draw River versus VelezMarcelo Gallardo spoke again. In a press conference he held at Ezeiza’s RiverCamp this Tuesday at noon, the River manager said he was surprised by the expectation for “just a conference” since he had suspended several in the last month. And she added: “I’m afraid to warn you that you will leave disappointed if you come looking for something else.”
“We are at a time when, after many years, many changes and various situations that have existed in terms of assembling campuses and teams and looking for the best possible operation, we aim to go as far as possible and one of the We have not been in able to reach the goals of this semester, but we are far from thinking that everything is over or that that goal has not been reached start speculating with other things or fake comments with extra-football propositionsYes There is no crisis here and they will not find it. My tenure has been built over many years and does not depend on the bad results we have had. We have built something more solid, “commented the River manager.
Gallardo was present at the press conference. He was energetic, convincing and also angry and annoyed. And he left endless sentences to review based on the River’s weak football moment, external and internal issues, field proposals, team performance, reinforcements, referees and much more …
The strongest sentences of Gallardo
Crisis in the river? For Gallardo, no. “The River fan does not get carried away by internal or external issues. When they want to make people believe that something comes from within and something does not come from within. I don’t waste time on rumors. I don’t justify my waste of time. Nothing is discussed. . And we must push ourselves to improve. Imagine if Maidanas, Pinola, Enzo Pérez, Casco, if they did not accept to be pushed, they would clearly look for other comforts, other places where they would be more relaxed. I am solid and firm and convinced where not to go in difficult times and where to go. And this is the signal I want to convey to you and to the River fans. “
The near future: “From recognizing the shortcomings we have had in campus assembly and team functionality, and the poor results we have had, we will try to reposition ourselves to catch our breath and get back to having the best possible search for the operation. my desire and that is what I have to take care of. By the end of the year we will see if we will be able to fight for the championship, which I think so. To the others I say And if we don’t ‘don’t fight for the championship I will leave best possible structure for when you leave, you can start in the best way ‘.
Its function: “My role as a coach is to prepare the best possible team, because in sporting success it is easy to convince and the coach understands that you have to accompany the trials. And a good coach accompanies the trials in difficult moments when the times are right. Something. more has been built here solid, beyond the fact that there is no destabilization no matter how much hope and that there is not. Some are very evident but they will not succeed because the structure is very solid “.
The responsability: “You have to remove the players from exposure and that burden. I am responsible. Since I am responsible for the good, I am also responsible for the evil. One as a coach has to teach all the time, beyond the fact that River demands a lot and right away. . And not everyone is willing to be asked right away. But they also know that River doesn’t expect too much of you. Within the normal processes to give him that solidity and that support, there is my role. Then we have to go out and compete because at River you always have to win, but in those bad moments the coach takes responsibility. “
Operation of the equipment: “My form hasn’t changed. That’s why I’m talking about permanence. We haven’t changed. All the teams in the world have had ups and downs. Julián Álvarez has scored many goals and then scored fewer. A good semester can be given to anyone conviction. for eight years I don’t know if it’s easy to achieve. In that process there were ups and downs. Normal in football. There are always failures. When the team fails, I have no problem saying that the team plays poorly. Therefore, I am responsible. If you are looking for responsibility, the first is mine when the team plays badly. When we don’t score or when we score against us, we fail as a team. Not that it fails in an industry. How it works is what leads you to score goals or convert them. “
Time: “My teams have been built over time. And we did it because we won quickly. There was a strong belief in that. Conviction is easy to accompany him when he wins but when he loses it vanishes. Everyone stops believing it. And what was good yesterday is not so good today and we all change. When I talk about building teams, it also takes time to build them. It happens to all coaches. But for many coaches there is no time. Even the winning coaches had little time. When I talk about times, I also speak with other managers of other institutions. I would propose that when a manager is fired, the person responsible for choosing that manager should leave as well. Think about what it would be like. It should be seen as a merit, not a receipt. “
The bad start to the championship: “We couldn’t start the championship with five national team players who traveled, they are tired and we had to recover them and they weren’t in good physical shape. And the calendar, which is compressed, gave us no respite. We didn’t have a better preparation. , based on how we want to play It is not an excuse but it has not allowed us to have a preparation based on what we want to do. We keep playing and trying to compete. And we will do the same now until the end of the year. “
Loss of high pressure and intensity: “One way that has identified us is the intensity, the pressing and the quick arrival. We have to understand what we are at. There are times when we can do it, others not. We have been irregular, we have not been regular in the search We have not succeeded. to support the good first phase of the Copa Libertadores in the match against Vélez, he put us to the test, and in that search I have to see what the moments are. Perhaps from the physical and the mental we could not combine the three things that give us that continuity. We couldn’t hold him back. These were the researches. “
Arbitrations: “Some things that are on time surprise me. Just as there are cameras to take if you are angry, if you laugh, the referees also have the opportunity to carefully observe the 48 thousand repetitions. So they have to make a lot less mistakes. They have to be less wrong because they have the tools. And not just us. There were mistakes against the other teams. I understand that they bragged a lot about training but they are failing and not just against me. Everyone has suffered. The error is the human eye “.
The insult to Nicolás Lamolina: “Aliendro never touches the opposing player when he is sent off. You can’t be so wrong. There is a movement and the player never touches it. He doesn’t step on him like the referee thought. The mistake is terrible. And even if I exaggerated, it wasn’t an insult because an insult is another thing, but I regret it because today they focus on you from all sides. I’m sorry, but it wasn’t too bad either. It would have been worse if I said something stronger. Who didn’t say idiot or asshole once. And since I’m a temperamental type, I don’t show anything else. I am like that in my life. I also have these answers that don’t make me proud and don’t define me as I am. And sometimes I’m wrong“.
Balance of the seven reinforcements: “I do not come here to give these details. I manage a football team and within that team there are those who have arrived. I do not come to fascinate anyone. I am here to accompany the trials. With the players who arrive, some adapt quickly and others like them. It costs a little more. Here it cost a lot. Here it was difficult to play for Enzo Pérez, who is a top reference for our team today. It cost him the first six months. Ask him when you can. And he is a player who has played in the World Cup and in Europe “.
Continuity in 2023: “I understand that some are bothered by my stay, but in the end it must be seen as a merit, in a society where we want to destroy everything quickly.. You have to see the finish line, but I’m not looking for myself, I also speak for the other coaches. In these eight years we have lost much more than we have won, yes, of course, but what has been built is too strong to resist with conviction. What if I continue into 2023? Not a question to be answered now. My projection is to take care of these moments. There are three and a half months in which we have to work to leave the better structure “.
Tenure in office and destabilization: Who is bothered by my tenure? To those who don’t love me. That must be a lot of people. I have nothing against this. I am sitting here to tell you that no matter how hard you try to say things or destabilize me and no matter how much we lose more games than we have already lost, it will not happen because I will stay here until the last day of my contract., with his head busy giving more solutions to the team. If it is enough to fight better for the championship and if not generate a structure that in the medium term will bear fruit for the institution “.
Massimiliano Benozzi
Source: Clarin
