Valverde, during the conference.
Exactly one month after being abruptly dismissed as coach of the Barcelona, Ernesto Valverde It has reappeared publicly this Thursday. He has done so at the Bilbao International Football Summit, held in San Mams, to which he has come to receive the Referential Award granted by the organization of the event. 'Txingurri'he had planned to go even on the Camp Nou bench (as long as the agenda allowed) and has also fulfilled his commitment after his cessation. The only difference, perhaps, is that he has done it with a beard, a 'look' with which he had never been seen in public.
In the talk he has offered during the congress, Valverde has acknowledged that the only complete football game he has seen this month was the duel of the quarterfinals of the Cup between the Bara and Athletic, the last two teams he has trained. “Without a minimum of generating controversy, it was a game very similar to the first League game we played in San Mams,” said 'Txingurri' who, true to his style, has not given rise to grandiloquent headlines about his recent cessation.
“I don't think about whether I have been unfairly treated, I have to avoid it. I try to turn the page, in the end we are thinking about what has happened and why. We are going to look forward, I don't have to look back, “he explained, acknowledging, yes, that he would have liked his removal to have occurred otherwise, although” training the Bara has been an incredible luck. ” the moment, Valverde does not consider returning to the benches immediately: “I plan to go see several teams and I also want to be with other coaches to chat with them and confront issues and different situations. ”
That of Valverde has been one of the great names of the BIFS, which this year has celebrated its fourth edition, with the novelty of doing it for the first time in San Mams. In addition to the former coach of Bara, who has received the Rewarding Award, Brazil and Argentina, Tite and Lionel Scaloni, and Fabio Capello. Likewise, Roberto Martnez, Blgica coach has participated through videoconference; Robert Moreno, coach of the Mnaco; and former soccer player Gica Popescu. Among the public was Unai Emery, recently dismissed as an Arsenal coach and lecturer in previous editions of the BIFS, and Javier Irureta, as well as representatives of Athletic as its sports director, Rafa Alkorta.
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