Rubén Albés: “We work to generate self-esteem”

The new coach of the CD Lugo, Ruben AlbésIn his presentation, he pointed out that he is working on the “generation of self-esteem” of a group that has suffered due to the series of results that has led them to declining positions.

“I found a team that is sad, annoyed, but that wants to turn it around, that has a great desire to get out of this, that was blocked, that did not know how to do it,” he said in a telematic press conference.

With the Lugo will face his first experience in Spanish professional football after having added experience in Second B and also in the Romanian First Division.

“From the deficits that we detect, we work on the generation of self-esteem. The players demonstrated their level in LaLiga, now they are not doing it and our goal is for them to regain self-esteem, to look in the mirror and see how good players they are. they are and that they do it as a team, “he warned.

After having found a changing room affected by the negative dynamics of thirteen games without winning and five losses in a row, Albés affirmed that after the first training session they were “already squatting”; the second day, “standing”; Today he is beginning to “walk”, tomorrow he will run and “on the day of the match”, against Ponferradina, they will face him “at the sprint and with one hundred percent”.

The young rojiblanco coach pointed out that he is influencing “the psychological, because when a team feels strong together, it is very difficult to defeat”, and in “recovering that confidence that was lost” along the way.

He also assured that “each one” of the players “has very clear roles” and affirmed that he is working on “individual and collective defects” to “modify and reduce them.”

“I really like challenges and this is very big, with a Galician team in the Second Division. I feel it as an opportunity to show our work,” he commented.

The coach was convinced that “everyone is going to work” at Lugo, that “no one is going to give up”, because it is something he has seen “in the faces of the players.”

“If we are able to get the fans and the entire club structure to have that thought, we have won it. Outside of Lugo, they think we are dead. There is our part to shut up many mouths,” he said.

The Vigo coach also indicated that the fact that Lugo lived “similar situations in the past can help them in the present” to overcome the trance they are going through.