Machín “Playing well is being able to impose your idea”

The Mendizorroza press room was the place chosen for the presentation of Pablo Machín, coach who will occupy the albiazul bench in his Centennial year. He arrives for a campaign and will take over the team when the preseason begins next week. That way the three weeks of vacation provided for in the Collective Agreement will be respected.

Machín was very excited about the project he is going to lead. “It is the Centennial year and I am very happy to be the coach of this team. I have always liked the fans of Alavés and, although it will be difficult to have them at the beginning of the season, we will work to achieve the objectives. He wanted to have an experience abroad and there was a clause to leave Quingdao. As soon as the possibility of coming came up, I didn't think about it, I talked to my agents and the operation was closed, “he said after stripping off a face mask from Deportivo Alavés.

“The luck we have is that we started from the preseason and I think that the footballers will be able to know what I am looking for and it will also help me to know its characteristics. In terms of quantity, we have many contract players and, in terms of quality, we have a good base. They had a magnificent season although in the end they suffered more than they thought. The objective is to be able to compete and be able to win against any rival and in all fields. Also, for me, the Alavés fans are always with the team. It does not support laziness and I think that support is always felt here, so I am looking forward to the pandemic being controlled as soon as possible, “he added convinced.

The Castilian noted that “we will try to be ambitious, balanced and capable of creating occasions, that we are a dynamic team. Playing well is imposing your idea. We want to be a team with commitment and effort. He who gives everything he has cannot be demanded of him any more. I come to a place where I see that they love me. My football is closely linked to the style of Northern football. I know players like Pere Pons – with whom he coincided in Girona and who barely played last season – and I'm sure everyone has room for improvement, like him. You always have to think about the group and everyone can seem better than they are if the group level is good. And I hope that can happen to Pere, “he said.

Regarding the objectives, the coach made it clear that “the first thing we have to be is sensible. The inescapable thing is to maintain the category. I am realistic, from day to day. When we are able to perform and the classification tells us where we are for that, in the last days, we change our plans or not. The ambition of must be at odds with realism “.

The Sports Director, Sergio FernandezHe commented that “he has all our respect and support and we wish him the best because his luck will be ours. We are not going to give up being a competitive team and we want to be better every day. Work will put us in our rightful place. . The lack of perspective has made us value little the fact of continuing in First. Many teams would be delighted to be at our place. We fulfill an old desire that this club has always had since I held this position of the Sports Directorate“he concluded.

When talking about the technical support body, Machín commented that he arrives with an assistant, and physical trainer (Jordi Balcells) and the figure of Javi Cabello, who had accompanied Asier Garitano in the first part of the finished campaign, is recovered, but that he was not with López Muñiz in the last four league days.