The coach of Real
Valladolid, Sergio
Gonzalez, has asked this Wednesday to the president of LaLiga, Javier Tebas, to “reflect” and to delay the start of the next season by two weeks, scheduled for September 12.
In his opinion, after the health crisis stemming from COVID-19, “it has had to do a job of survival, adapt to new regulations, prepare for a preseason, endow heads with personality and face a situation of uncertainty, which it has not been easy”.
Soccer, he added during a press conference, “has been damaged at the proposal level, but,” he said, “we have met a goal for society and we have put on the overalls to play again. But it has been seen that the footballer needs more time to reset and be well, and that is why it would be good if the league started later “, he insisted.
“It is important that we all be well, recover strengths and that football is a spectacle,” added the coach, who recalled that during this next preseason they will have “a maximum of five weeks of vacation, if it starts on August 10.” , when the ideal, for him, would be “six weeks”.
Although permanence has been achieved, Sergio González has wanted to transmit intensity to his players, because he knows that although neither his team nor Eibar – a game for which the schedule has been brought forward – nothing is at stake in the game that will face them this Thursday, they do have the “responsibility” to play a good game, since José Luis Mendilibar (Eibar coach) “is not going to let his players relax.”
As he has indicated, the objective remains the same because, after two days in which the players have been given “wide sleeves”, after having assured the permanence, the sensations “are good again” and they aspire to finish the league adding points and offering the best possible game.
In this sense, he warned that Eibar “like Real Valladolid, will keep its DNA until the end.” “We expect a dangerous opponent in the air game, in the side centers, in individual plays and in second plays, so we know which team we are facing.”
For this reason, it will be important “to be very attentive to their strengths, seeking their back to their defense and trying not to put pressure on them after loss, that is, to maintain the defensive block but having more daring in the last meters, to generate chances and drill his goal.
Will give minutes to the less common
Sergio González wants to give minutes to the players who have had the least. For this reason, he has announced that José Antonio Caro will start at the goal, but he will also give minutes to the player of the subsidiary Samu Pérez, just as the squad Diego Alende and Víctor García will have the opportunity to play in First, which, in a few days , will begin to fight with the subsidiary for promotion to Second.
Asked about his balance of the season, the Real Valladolid coach has indicated that the stay “is a resounding success, with capital letters” that has been possible “thanks not only to the great effort and work that the players have done, but to all that make up the club. “
Once salvation was achieved, Sergio González has decided to shave his beard, which he maintained due to superstition, by adding goals in the return to competition: “They are internal reinforcements, but it has been the footballers who have made us relax and with a smile on his face, “he commented.
And already thinking about the next campaign, he hopes to maintain the same level in the players he already has, “who are the ones who have achieved salvation”, but not hold back, but try to “have more weapons to take that step, evolve all together and be able to face more challenges, “he said.