Imanol and the connection with the Real Sociedad Copa champion

It is one of the moments of the semifinal of Copa in Snduva. The emotional hug between the current coach of the Real Sociedad, the man who has led the return to a Cup final of the realistic team; with Alberto 'Bixio' Gorriz, the player with the most matches in the history of the San Sebastian club. The moment was caused by the SER Chain, because Bixio was in the cabin of Carousel because he had commented on the match between Real and Mirandés.

It is not because I am here, it is that when I enter the first team I feel at his side in the locker room and he was a reference in the team, for his way of being and for how he has been. A reference for all young people, and these things are lived or difficult to explain. I have changed to the side of Bixio and that is not forgotten, it is exciting to say that I switched to the side of important people in the Real and that they showed us the way to reach the final now. This final is from the people, from everyone who feels the Royal Society as theirs, “says Imanol Alguacil.

Bixio Gorriz, flushed at so much praise, returned the compliments. “He's a great coach. He's getting too good for me. But he knows what a locker room is, he lived it with us, and that's why he manages it so well now. La Real has great players, but Imanol oos does better still, because he is modest, a boy from Orio, with great humility, and then he is also a great coach, who knows how to read the situations of the game and achieve things like returning us to a final 32 years later. ” Imanol, who lived in his beginnings with the last Cup champions, now seeks to emulate them as coach of the txuri-urdin team.