Change of course on the bench Somorrostro. Alain Arroyo placeholder image comes out e Ibon Etxebarrieta enters. The law of soccer. And is that those of Muskiz they are bottoms in their group and do not know victory after six rounds. Defeat in Santutxu Sunday precipitated events. The parties spoke on Monday, approached positions and closed the deal. Even his own Stream went yesterday to Etxebarrieta “In case he needed something”, a circumstance that the former Zamudio or River thanks. First of all, companionship.
“It was the first experience of Alain and it annoys me, but I have already told him that now it's time to rest and I'm sure he will soon gain strength for another challenge ”, says the new coach of the Somorrostro to Sports world. A “nice, very good looking team, made to be important, but football sometimes has these things” and it has not carbured. His start was choked and he has not taken off: “In the first game they had some problem with the goalkeepers, then some issue of Covid… a series of factors have accumulated that have made them enter into a complicated dynamic ”.
There is another element that has been key to Etxebarrieta has decided to say yes. “There are nine players that I have had previously and there are others with whom I have not worked, but whom I know very well,” he details. So a photograph is taken of what will be found: “I can say that it is a template that has arguments to turn the situation around.”
There will be little time for acclimatization in such an atypical season in which “everything is different and it seems that everything has to be done faster”, however the coach advocates caution. “You also have to be careful because we can't think very long-term. In the same way that we say that the squad has many possibilities, reality says that we are with 2 points out of 18 and that we are last ”, he explains Etxebarrieta. It is a long-distance race in which they will try to function “with humility”, without haste: “We cannot think that in a short time we will be out of danger.”
The coach is “very excited” to land precisely in the Muskiztarra team: “The last two years that I played I did so in the we are, a few years ago now, in 94 and 95. It is the first team in which I will train and I have also played ”. It is a “nice challenge in a team with possibilities”. Etxebarrieta he put on his work suit since yesterday and began training with his new colors.
He will have a certain truce, since the Blue and Whites rest this weekend. Of course, on Tuesday the 8th they will visit the Real Sociedad C in the duel that they had postponed. “We will take the opportunity to keep things clear, to work. Although there are many players who already know me, trying to give the team a few touches of what we are going to pretend to be, ”he assures. The immediate calendar crosses to Somorrostro with two direct rivals before the end of the year: Urgatzi Y Aurrera KE. “It is important because of the possibility of beating rivals, but now the main concern is that we are well, be clear about what we must do, that's where we are going to start,” he says.