Natalia Arroyo: “Nahikari has a contract and I have told her that I have her”

Natalia Arroyo has been publicly presented as the new coach of the Royal Society with a presentation adapted to the new times, telematically. But the Catalan, in her first public act as a realistic coach, has made it clear how she wants her team to be, in her first project on a professional bench. And of course, he had to talk a lot about Nahikari, but without being able to clarify too much.

–Happy first days. “Excited and I am scheming what I want to do, I have found a Real with the desire to grow so that it goes further along the path the team was walking, pushing forward, wanting to specify how it starts, I have found a Real that he has trusted me to go further ”.

–Nahikari García. “It is true that it will always be a name to be talked about and what we know at Real is that it has a one-year contract, which is important for the team and with which we want to count, from there we have to build a project that allows him to continue with us, tied to his club as always ”.

–Conversation with Nahikari. “With Nahikari the whole club is in contact and I have been able to speak to her to learn about the situation and I have told her that I would like to have her, that she has one more year of contract and that the growth project will pass through her leadership and that I want to take it to another level. And from there she has to say. I was excited about my arrival, she welcomed me, I felt that I had to ask her and tell me her opinion, she is receptive to growing and what the club can offer her, but I understand that she is attractive to other teams because she has a high level, I I found him happy for my arrival because he fits in with the growth level of the club ”.

–Interest of other clubs. “She has a one-year contract and I would like her to continue, just like the club, but the rest has to be hers, and if she wants to, she will continue to be a pillar of the new project.”

–Offers from Real Madrid and Atlético. “The club is aware of its situation and knows that it gives it a certain advantage, and from there there are people who are knocking at the door, but I know of that interest more for you, the media and the club that it is evaluating their situation and is receptive to other proposals ”.

–Interesting project. “A lot of things change, because I have been consuming this league for a long time and the Real project always made me curious because every year it grew and I keep on that idea now that I am part of it. This team has a lot of room to grow because it is too young to demand much more from it. And we hope to continue doing an attractive style, trying to propose what he had already been doing in Catalonia, which is not at all different from what Real had been practicing in recent years ”.

–Different work than the selection. “It is a change of context, because the selection does not have the day to day that you do have in a club, which you adjust as the days go by. Learning is to see how I can improve the player's potential and how you can add that to the group ”.

–Project with continuity. “There are a few days left, we are in talks, the dynamics of the club is solid and there is no reason to change that, the block will continue because it has the capacity to go up, we are soon in a position to see where the team is going, but the block will continue ”.

–What real do you want. “A team with the ability to dare, I want the Real to be daring, I do not like teams to speculate, I do not want the team not to be daring, it has to be a defense team that takes the initiative, and I want to take it with the ball to the opposite goal, but I do not like having it to have, for when we have the option to take advantage of it. It must be a brave, intense, daring team that takes the initiative, and with a very clear identity ”.

–Olabe's call. “The first call is of great happiness and of not finishing believing it to him, and later it transmits to me that in the Real a figure like mine can fit him”.

–Technical staff. “It is an issue that we are working on and we will make it concrete. A balance will be found between the people who have been doing the job well in there and those who come from outside, but it is still open.”

–Quarry. “I know all the players because I follow women's football, and we are at a time when the talent we have below is demanding from those who are above. The intention of the club was for them to participate with maximum continuity in the first team, and we will maintain that idea, and from there the challenge of the subsidiary is to make their way to achieve the Iberdrola Challenge category as soon as possible. It is not a question of DNI, it is a question of talent. To me, that young player who is at the point of bravery and daring will have a place in the team.

–I work as a commentator. “Commenting games what he gives you are tables for the games, because you try to see the intentions of one or the other team, think as the coach thinks. He has always given me training and I have highly appreciated him. It has prepared me a lot. ”

–Women on the female bench. “It is about having prepared people and transmitting something to the team, it is possible that a player has more connection with a female coach, but it is not a question of gender, but of empathy. Unfortunately, there are still too few women who are in charge of a bench, and the more we are, the sooner others will imagine it and will take the step to open more doors. ”

–Arconada, its predecessor. “With Gonzalo I have not spoken, because I am back in Barcelona, ​​the hours in Donostia were concentrated on the agreement and my signature. But when I come back I hope I have a chance to talk to him. We are in the process of sitting down with the players and seeing where they are, and that is when I will realize if there are more or less changes to be made.

–Women's Football. “The league has grown, it is increasingly competitive, all the parties have interest, the level is very good. The Real that I imagine is a Real that has to be among the first teams in the competition, clearly. We would all be excited to achieve, but we must deserve to achieve, and we must go little by little. It is a league that was incorporating foreign players but it will be necessary to see what capacity they have to assume it. I am convinced that this Royal is with something already advanced ”.

–Personal profile. “I have played soccer but in four years I went through the operating room three times and it was enough to review that, and I liked this other part of the profession, but always with something related to soccer. She was already a coach of the girls at Espanyol and then commented on the games on television. I really liked narrating games and now I'm commenting on them. I really like doing sports and I had to stop playing because my knees wouldn't let me anymore and that hurt me. I liked doing medium distance triathlon that kept me tidy at work and I really like cycling. ”

–objectives. “The objective is clearly to be in the direction of these seasons trying to be higher, adding something more to be a better team. And the objective is affordable, it can be more or less with Nahikari, but above all it will depend on the qualification of the team ”.

–Improvement of the players. “They are taking steps, they have more media coverage, and the situation of the players is improvable but good enough that they invest time and demand it.”

–Analysis of the Real de Imanol. “A team in which you see all the players involved in the game and it is one of the greatnesses that the team has had to achieve what Real wants, and that is a hallmark of what Imanol wants. He is capable of playing on all stages and that gives players a stage for talent to explode, and has conveyed to them a spirit that has allowed him to be the hottest team so far. A coach capable of playing very well and transmitting that he is unstoppable ”.

–Will seek improvement of the template. “I would like the players to feel that their best version is yet to come, that it is a Real with many resources, offensive and that it transmits energy and is very intense. There will be errors, but I hope that from the error we can grow, and that no one will be satisfied with complying, a real offensive, fresh and quite winning, not to say very winning ”.