“We want to continue aspiring to be champions”

The head of the sports area of ​​La Real is “happy” to have signed a new contract that binds him to the club until 2024. Robert
Olabe expresses the happiness you feel in your own way. With almost poetic terms, only for the official media and alone, on one side of an empty Anoeta. In his ideology the objective of building a project that is written in bigger words prevails.

The most ambitious message that Olabe quotes verbatim cannot be understood otherwise: “We want to continue aspiring to be champions.” The ideal mix for the top sports manager is to think about the future by drawing inspiration from the most glorious passages of the past. Olabe he talks about “taking as a model many things from our history”.

“Excited to continue contributing and collaborating in the project of a centenary club”, Olabe He declares that he is “with a lot of energy” on his way to leading the club's sports area. The Gasteiztarra would like “that ambition not to become a pose.” To give shape to the objectives he sets, he looks at the face of the entire Royal family. “The best thing that can happen to us is that people are proud of us,” he says.

Olabe he speaks of La Real in terms of “champion club”, highlighting its “social support and certain well-defined pillars regarding the youth development project and the relationship with our people.” So that the features that it enhances Olabe translate into success, the football director fixes his gaze on the “game model”, which “forces us to delve into how to be better”.

Vibrate again, suffer and enjoy at the same time

The double renewal announced Wednesday by Jokin
Aperribay comes in full negative streak, with three consecutive defeats as the most recent adverse context. “The parties have to leave us something more than the result” according to Olabe. La Real is still on the right track because “seeing how we prepare to play and compete, how the players face challenges, is something nice and good,” believes the Gasteiz. “Every opportunity to measure ourselves against the best is a stimulus,” says Olabe, in favor of “preparing well to deserve to win.” The executive crosses the frontier of victory on any given Sunday and asks: “Why not deserve what we are imagining?”, Reflects the stop.

The fans have a reserved space in the mind of Robert
Olabe. You have to think about it every minute, since “rebuilding our relationship with people, regenerating emotional ties from the game, has been key in the new stadium.” The exporter is committed to “vibrating again, suffering and enjoying together” and, at a more competitive level than anything else, wants “experiences to make us continue to mature, grow and win”, always “aspiring to more”, he clarifies. “Without a doubt, the greatest wish is that we can share it with our people. As it was before, as it always was and how we want it to continue being ”, he develops Olabe with own style.