MADRID, 10 Oct. (EUROPA PRESS) –
The Uruguayan Diego Alonso, Sevilla’s new coach replacing José Luis Mendilibar, was “happy” for his arrival at the Sevilla team where he is clear that “you cannot destroy everything” that the previous coach has worked on “because there are things very useful” and that the objective is to be “dominant in every way.
“It has been a long day, Monday too, but these opportunities have these things. We are happy and happy, I wanted to be in this first training session even though it was scheduled by the rest of the staff and to be on the field with the players and start showing my commitment to everything we want,” said Diego Alonso in statements to the club’s official media.
The former forward was “grateful for the reception” and acknowledged that for the players “it has also been a difficult moment with the departure” of José Luis Mendilibar. “As the days go by we will begin to train more deeply on how we want to play and what we want to produce. We hope to take advantage of these two remaining days of the week and the next to move forward,” he said.
The Uruguayan has “a diagnosis” of what he has seen in the team and did not hide that “coaches always have a legacy from the previous coach.” “We must know and know what worked and stick with it, with the positive, you can’t destroy everything because there are very useful things,” he said.
“Last year they were very competitive and this year they pressed aggressively and had transitions, I like those traits. Then there will be my things and my way of seeing football and I will try to give it to the footballers. First, we have to work and convince with tools, we will have failures or successes, but we will build to be dominant in every sense,” he added.
For Alonso, it will depend on their “ability to see how much time” they need to “achieve” what they want. “We have elite and extremely capable footballers. We trust a lot in their qualities, that’s why we are also here, beyond the size of the club. All this will allow us to grow with the traits we want,” he said.
The new Sevilla coach also made it clear that “the systems are not important, but the tools and what you have.” “It is more important what we want to do. The team has variants and many arguments and faculties to be able to develop many concepts of the game to be dominant in pressure and in combination. This is a challenge, but it is the shortest way to win. When one knows why he wins, he repeats it again and stops doing what went wrong when he lost,” he explained.
PRAISE TO LUIS ARAGONÉS
“You always have to have the ability to adapt to a new place. Here I was a footballer and I know part of it, and my experience in different places has made me more flexible so that the adaptation is faster. When you arrive at a new club you cannot “to destroy, you have to build, to see what there is in the clubs where there are very capable people and to make you improve. From there you grow and with that back and forth the one who wins is the club and the fans,” continued the Former Uruguay coach.
Diego Alonso did not forget a figure like the late Luis Aragonés, former coach of the Seville team and who coached him during his time at Atlético de Madrid. “Perhaps it has been the most exponential case in my career. He always behaved wonderfully with me, with very good details, he was always very kind and open to everything we could exchange,” he stated, citing his compatriot Julio Rivas as the coach who ” more” has marked him and confessing that he learned “a lot about methodology with Rafa Benítez”.
“You never know what detail makes you win, so you have to take care of them all to make each other better. My main objective is to improve the players because if that happens we will be better, for sure,” remarked the former forward who knows very well “what this club and its fans mean”.
For this reason, he is not afraid of the demands of his new club. “Every place I was in had a lot of people behind it, even in divided cities like here. I logically understand the pressure there may be, but I take it in a very good way. Demand makes us better and it doesn’t reduce us, it empowers us,” he stated.
“The most important thing now for us is the first game and, if possible, prepare well during these days for that match. We have to give them appropriate tools for what you are going to ask of them and then there is the motivational part, which we will transmit to them , but I think the key is to give them tools so that they can feel much more comfortable on the field,” he concluded.