The Cantabrian technician, who returns to Villamarn at the head of Barcelona, revalued the Betis squad and led brilliant victories, but ended up without achieving the goals and rejected by the fans
Quique Setin, in a recent match with Barcelona.
Quique, vete was already an unfair epitaph for the agitated, excessive and punctually radiant life of Quique Setin (Santander, 1958) in Betis, to whose house he returns this Sunday with the team of his dreams. Those words, engraved in marble in the coach's memory, chanted at Benito Villamarn, marked his definitive distancing with the green-white entity. Behind were the erratic press conferences, the challenges to their own liking, the visible fatigue, their inability to refloat a bored ship, with no place in Europe, condemned again to choppy waters, to inconsequential routes. The curse of the half board. Again, despite being awake for a few months, nothing. The wandering
The victories were contingent for the Cantabrian, but the seal of his football was necessary. Irredeemable A stubbornness that ended up ballasting your project. Fattening his image of arrogance, always challenging, badly faced. A master who defined himself as a person of very deep convictions, who values more effort than results. He wanted a year of redemption, but Haro and Cataln could not with the pressure. They preferred to change books rather than turn the page.
Difficult defense had Setin with such a particular ideology, so improper of these times of urgency and confetti. Defeat, like death, equals us below. And yet, despite the final lead, his unfinished Betis still finds defenders, the memory of vibrant matches and the revaluation he made of a discrete squad. Guardado, a soccer player already in the final phase of his career, gave an extraordinary performance. Channels achieved internationality. The unquestionable guarantee of Pau Lpez under sticks and at the start of play. Lo Celso relaunched his dull career. Junior Firpo pas of the artificial grass in Third to the grass of the Camp Nou. Fabin corroborates what many intuit. Loren guaranteed the goal. And Joaqun extended his career with a style that allowed him to run less and shine more.
Institutional instability
A daring team, which won at Santiago Bernabu, at Camp Nou, at Snchez Pizjun or at San Siro, who finished sixth in the League (20017/18), reached the semifinals in Copa del Rey (20018/19) and got develop an elegant, associative, fast football. A promising game that gradually fell apart, buried by institutional instability, the fracture with Serra Ferrer and the little art with the cape of a spider that went from authenticity to antipata in a pestaeo. Rubi's hesitant start this season reactivated the relationship between Betis and Setin, who was close to returning to the house of those who put the bags at the door. Football and love, states and not borders.
Setin walked away from Betis without looking back. His great dream was to train Barcelona and he has succeeded. There has been rediscovered, surprise, with the rudeness of this sport: the style is very good as long as the score falls in your favor. Nothing new. The rest, folder rhymes, smelly cartisores, literature and steam. Not even in Barcelona, museum of the horizontal pass, is it safe from the emotional pragmatism of the fans. In Helipolis the wounds are gradually healing. What has come does not improve, so far, what left.
In Betis de Rubi there are echoes of Setin. The angular work of Bartra, the exit from the side through off-hook interiors, the asymmetry of the drawing when Fekir plays, similar to the one represented by Lo Celso. A factory under the lawn rectangle. Justice for Setin, a coach who made Villamarn vibrate before their love and possession broke, from using them so much.
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