The president of the Real Valladolid, Ronaldo
Nazário, has assured this Monday, at a press conference, 48 hours after confirming the team's relegation to Second Division, that the objective is to achieve “direct promotion next season”, since it will be among the “two or three best budgets Second division “.
To do this, he has anticipated that “the club is already working on and, next week, there will be news about the changes that are going to take place” and that it happens, mainly, to sign a new sports director and a new coach, after the dismissals of Miguel Ángel Gómez and Sergio González.
In addition, they will seek to find “the best balance for the squad”, in which there are already “40 players with contracts”, so “the making of the team will not be difficult, as they already have an important base”, although It will be the sports director and the coach who will decide who they will have and who will not.
Ronaldo has acknowledged that “it will not be easy” to achieve that challenge set for the next campaign, but has insisted that his wish is for the team to “return to the First Division and to do so, in addition, through the two places that give direct access to the category “, for which he hopes to have the” support “of the fans.
A hobby that seems to have turned its back on him in recent months, although the Brazilian star has indicated that it “should not be angry” about his “private life”, in relation to the criticism of the fans for his attitude in recent games, since that he has challenged to find “an owner of a football club who has been with him more during the time of the pandemic.”
“This is football. When you win, everything goes well, but when you lose, logically they will not send you flowers,” he commented, while clarifying that he is “sad and disappointed” by what happened, but also “strong and motivated “to continue with the purposes he announced when he arrived at the club, three seasons ago.
Won't leave without leaving a legacy
In this sense, he has specified that his stage at Real Valladolid will end when he has “left a legacy” in the city and in the entity: “when the club has been consolidated in the First Division, the Ciudad Deportiva is made and the stadium is ours. property “, has qualified.
At that time, “the club, healthy and with income, will become a good bet for anyone, since it is a great club and a great city”, although the sale of Real Valladolid is not something that worries them ” since there is still much to do and to achieve “.
“I have not received any offer for the club,” warned Ronaldo, who has clarified that “he does not regret” being its maximum shareholder, since he is where he wants to be, “excited” with what he is doing and with motivation to ” learn from mistakes and look forward. “
Although he considers that “not having achieved permanence in the First Division is a brutal failure”, he has defended that he “trusted” that it would be achieved and that Sergio González could reverse the situation, hence he decided to keep him at the head of the team until the final.
In this regard, he pointed out that “according to the data, 55% of the teams that keep their coach in a crisis situation achieve better results and move forward” but it is that, in addition, they chose to keep Sergio and Miguel Ángel Gómez ” out of loyalty “, because they” got a promotion and two stays. “
A new women's team
Taking stock of this season, he has admitted that this is “very bad”, because he believed that “he would suffer less” and “the worst came” and he believes that “with the fans in the stadium, surely those points would have been achieved. they lacked “to have been able to achieve permanence.
“Now a new project is beginning and we are going to work to make the team rise. And we do it with enthusiasm and motivation, to achieve it as soon as possible, because I believe that this club has to be in the First Division fighting for higher objectives than permanence” , has added.
Finally, he has advanced his intention to “have a female team in the club, but for this, first you have to have sufficient facilities, with that Sports City, since now there are only four fields for twelve teams, and two of them they are reserved for the first team. ”