Diego Martínez and his parakeet DNA

Hay clubs who, by tradition, sympathize more with one coach than with another, obviously retain in memory those who win the most, like Javier Clemente in that UEFA of 88, José Antonio Camacho or Ernesto Valverde. All of them are as different as night and day, but the perception of the fan was the same: the teams worked, the effort was not negotiated in the best moments. Historically, the parakeet team was over running than to play, to press and go on the counterattack, of players more than of groups. The Joan Francesc Ferrer orchestra, Rubi, is an exception that had no continuity.

In that same bag, that of Camacho as the icon of the ideal coach for Espanyol, there is a Diego Martínez who will sign his contract this morning and will be presented, if there are no problems, in the auditorium of the RCDE Stadium around 1:00 p.m. . He arrives with the endorsement of his three dream years in Granada with promotion to the First Division and qualification for the Europa League. The technician is characterized by lead teams that are built from an extraordinary defensive organization and from that pressure in the rival field that has been lacking this season. “You have to adapt to the players and enhance their virtues”, the Galician coach always repeats, so to capture his ideas he first needs a template according to it. Otherwise he will adapt as he has always done in more modest categories.

“This is like a plant that has to be watered every day. Good performance must be taken care of, linked to certain values. Let them defend them. That, in some way, beyond the personal, the team is above all of us. It is achieved by wanting to do it that way. It is something that is achieved on a day-to-day basis, like prestige,” Martínez recently commented. His game ideas in Granada were very specific.

His booklet applied to Espanyol

In the offensive phasethe Nasrid team was a team that did not shy away a get the ball clean from behind but what I did not assume excessive risks. If he felt pressured, he would throw long and organize effectively to win the second play. attack by band looking for superiorities and centering the area, where he accumulated up to three or four players, was one of the objectives. For this reason, the 4-2-3-1 game system was usually the most used.

The big difference with this season is the defensive phase. The Spanish by Diego Martínezif it follows the idea used in Granada, it would be a team that would play as as far as possible from the goal and would be activated after a loss in the rival field. Commitment of all the players in this facet must be critical. Diego’s DNA, also the parakeet.