Asier Garitano, Leganés coach, He was satisfied to undertake a second stage on the bench of the Madrid team and explained why he has agreed to return now but not last summer.
“Because of how I left Alavés, the issue of confinement, many situations … I was not mentally prepared to take on a project and less that of Leganés. It would have been very selfish of me. I needed to stop, “he said in his presentation.
“After a while, the bug comes back in again. I'm glad that a team like Leganés has agreed from my. I was able to return, I know that the club has done its part and I appreciate it. It's the only offer I've ever had in recent months and I have accepted it because I think the challenge is beautiful, “he added.
In this sense, he denied having had a proposal from Huesca weeks ago and assured that now he feels 'good': “They have given me the opportunity to be here and let's see if we take advantage of it again, soccer is opportunities. In that security and that tranquility that this city and this team give me, let's hope things can go well. “
“Months ago, my head was not to take on a project and there was not a choice. I had to fix myself, recover that illusion and that passion again what you have to have to be in this profession. The template is good, wide. We have not made it but I am happy with what there is. We will surely try to change some nuances but this group, from what they have transmitted to me and from what I have seen, gives me peace of mind and security, “he declared.
Garitano valued positively the work of his predecessor,
Jose Luis Marti: “It seems that when there is a dismissal things all go wrong and it is not like that. The work has been good and our idea is to be able to boost it more in the second round. It's new for me to take the train in motion but I'm happy of this different challenge, different for me. I have the illusion that things turn out well. “
“It is not easy, after a team has been in the First Division, that relegation. It is not an easy situation for anyone because this category is very competitive. They have managed, with their ups and downs, to be with the best. But this club wants more. The work seems to me to have been good and you have to congratulate Martí so much as the coaching staff, “he said.
The Basque coach affirmed that he feels at home: “The sensations are the same. In this journey many have passed things in this city, all positive. I am very happy to be back here, where I feel at home. “
“Sports responsibility is going to be great but I come to a team that is doing things well, The idea is to enhance, if possible, what the previous coach was doing and the coaching staff. Surely they will give me love, I also love all these people very much. I hope to be very normal, very close, very respectful. This is going to be regardless of what happens in sport, “he completed.
He also acknowledged that he does not think in the medium-long term and that he will not speak of direct promotion: “I forget the classification, that wears a lot. We want to improve. The work has been good because this team is with the best, among the top ten “.
“We all would have liked to be closer to the first or second but it is what we have right now. We will forget about that and try to improve every day, in each game, so that it can take us where it has to take us,” he added .
He also stated that he has seen all the team's duels and considers that the squad is good, that he is happy with it, and that his duty is to adapt: ”I know how this is handled. We will try the coaching staff to improve each player, the protagonists are the players and not the coaches. That's my job, that's how I understand it. I know that football is about results but the idea is that each of the players is a little bit better. “
“The idea will be the same in the most important thing, the quality of training, the day to day. This squad has different characteristics of players but the five years I was at Leganés we also changed things. The Second B team had nothing to do with the first Second. We have been adapting to things and nuances. With this template we will do the same, “he said.