Category
🥇
SportsTranscript
00:00 I have to say that the feedback is very positive.
00:04 We are very happy to have accepted the offer from PSG and to be here.
00:14 We have been living it with great joy.
00:17 It has been a month, how long? A month, more or less.
00:20 It has been very intense with the tour, but very good, very happy and excited.
00:28 You need time to get to know yourself and your staff,
00:32 but we have been welcomed in a wonderful way.
00:36 We are very pleased and eager to continue with the project and grow.
00:43 We need more time and more days for the team to understand what we want as a coach,
00:52 but also the coexistence of all the people.
00:55 We are many people working for the club and helping the players.
01:01 A bit of everything. I like to talk, I am a talkative person,
01:07 but we take care of the message we give to the players.
01:09 You can't be talking to them every day.
01:13 We don't just talk about tactics, we talk about life, we talk about values,
01:16 we talk about personal situations,
01:18 we talk about what it means to be part of a club like PSG,
01:22 we talk about being a family.
01:25 These are the same values.
01:26 Football and sport give you situations very similar to life,
01:31 in which you are often happy, and sometimes you are sad.
01:35 In general, it is beautiful and interesting,
01:38 and there are many moments to observe, many moments to talk,
01:42 many moments to correct,
01:46 and to convey to the player the football idea we have.
01:52 It is a very interesting and beautiful project.
01:56 If you do it moderately well and you talk about who is free,
02:00 there are many options.
02:02 Of course, of course.
02:04 Before, football players are people.
02:07 That's why sport is so integrative,
02:09 sport and football in this case.
02:11 When you are in a team sport,
02:13 I am not only happy when I score a goal,
02:15 when my teammate scores a goal,
02:17 or when the player who plays in my position plays well.
02:20 It is a moment of general enjoyment.
02:22 Not only to think that we are the center of the world.
02:25 There are many important values in life and in sport
02:29 that serve to be an indisputable and indispensable player.
02:36 We have canes, white hair,
02:40 and we have lived all these situations.
02:42 We try to inform the players that there are many ways to enjoy,
02:46 and there are many ways to be a unique and indisputable player.
02:49 Not only when you play, but also when you are in the dressing room,
02:52 when you are on the stands, when you are injured.
02:55 I think it is important to convey different values to the player.
02:59 For me, it is very important to hear laughter in training.
03:15 When you have to work, you work.
03:17 You have to work at maximum intensity,
03:20 but you have to try to enjoy your day-to-day life,
03:24 your footballing life, because it is very short.
03:26 I am a demanding person,
03:28 but what I like the most about training is competition,
03:32 obviously, competing and winning,
03:34 like everyone else in the professional world.
03:37 But the connection with my players,
03:39 not only with those who play more games,
03:41 with those who don't play,
03:42 trying to improve them, trying to help them,
03:45 not saying, "Don't make me angry, leave me alone."
03:48 I like to connect with my players,
03:50 I like to be close, but at the same time demanding.
03:53 And that is my job.
03:56 I have a habit of living things with passion.
03:59 I have always tried to enjoy my profession,
04:02 my life, to enjoy being part of a team.
04:06 A team is a family, it is real,
04:08 it is not a topic, it is a family.
04:10 When there is joy, we hug each other.
04:12 When there is sadness, we cry.
04:14 This is a football team.
04:16 And not only think that I have to score a goal.
04:19 It is very nice when my teammate scores a goal.
04:22 Passing the ball is much more rewarding than scoring a goal.
04:25 I like to talk about life, not only about football,
04:28 and try to help the players to the maximum.
04:31 At the beginning, it is to inform about the bases,
04:42 about the important things,
04:44 about the indisputable things
04:46 and how we have to behave in a field of play.
04:49 But then, the growth goes
04:51 through training, matches,
04:54 seeing those connections,
04:56 seeing those relationships between players,
04:58 seeing and adapting to what happens on the field,
05:02 in attack and defense, depending on the rival,
05:04 but above all, based on our idea of the game.
05:07 There is no training session that is not aimed
05:10 at improving those situations in the game and training it.
05:13 Now we are growing in what it means to give an idea of the game,
05:18 observing what happens,
05:20 which players have better connections,
05:23 better synergies, what happens.
05:26 And, in the end, I always say,
05:28 our job as coaches and as staff
05:30 is to give information to the player
05:32 to have a clear idea of how we play,
05:34 how we attack, how we defend,
05:36 but be open to see what other things happen
05:39 and take advantage of those things
05:41 that come naturally to them.
05:43 But we are at the beginning.
05:45 I would say there is a lot to improve,
05:48 a lot to do, a lot to analyze,
05:50 but these are very exciting first steps.
05:53 We started, before coming here,
05:55 doing a general analysis of LaLiga,
05:57 the matches against PSG last year,
05:59 to see what things Paris Saint-Germain did,
06:03 and we drew some conclusions.
06:06 And now we analyze game by game
06:10 each opponent, first Logian, now Toulouse.
06:13 Now, before the FIFA break,
06:15 there are only four games.
06:17 We try to analyze each opponent,
06:19 to train that week according to what we think
06:21 will happen in the game.
06:23 And, the truth is that there is not much time for more.
06:27 We finish at the last minute in the office
06:30 and there are always things and situations to assess.
06:35 What do you think of the atmosphere?
06:37 It's surprising. I really liked the atmosphere.
06:40 Even in the warm-up, when we are in the changing room,
06:43 the stadium is singing.
06:46 We love it.
06:48 We just hope to return this joy and passion
06:51 with good football, goals and victories.
06:54 That is our goal.
06:56 We see the pressure at this level as a privilege.
06:59 Pressure is a privilege.
07:02 If you are not ready to withstand this pressure,
07:06 better leave professional football.
07:08 For me, it is a great advantage.
07:11 To come back to the field,
07:13 we also saw your ideas right away,
07:15 from the first matches.
07:16 What is the style of play that you take?
07:18 We have an idea.
07:20 Be a team that dominates.
07:22 Be a team that has the ball much more than the rival.
07:24 We don't give space to the rival.
07:26 We want to have the ball fast for us.
07:28 It's like in school.
07:30 There is a ball for you or for your opponent.
07:33 The ball is for us.
07:35 From there, try to dominate the match
07:38 and not change our idea.
07:40 We play the whole match in the same way.
07:43 Then you win, you lose, you draw.
07:45 It depends on the rival.
07:47 But there are some items that don't change.
07:52 We can't think,
07:54 "Let's go out and see what happens."
07:56 That's not the goal.
07:58 We want to play in the same way,
08:00 in the field, in the tie,
08:02 in the stadium, in the competition.
08:05 We don't care.
08:07 But having the same general idea
08:09 doesn't mean that you play the same way.
08:12 We try to dominate the match,
08:14 not be dominated.
08:16 We always try to pressure
08:18 so that the rival doesn't have time.
08:20 Make the clock say, "They took the ball from me."
08:23 It's important.
08:24 From there, we attack in different ways.
08:27 We occupy spaces, we change positions.
08:30 We're totally unpredictable.
08:33 That's the goal.
08:34 Sometimes we attack with a side,
08:36 sometimes with a center,
08:37 sometimes with a side,
08:38 sometimes with a nine.
08:40 We move the ball and occupy different spaces.
08:43 It's very difficult to think about the rival.
08:47 We're going to attack, we're going to pressure,
08:49 we're going to defend, we're going to create chances.
08:51 I don't know how many games we're going to win.
08:53 I don't know how many titles.
08:54 But we're going to fight for all the titles.
08:56 For sure.
08:57 We'll see.
08:58 It's a small evolution of what we're seeing now.
09:07 A team that continues to show
09:10 the same thing as in the last game,
09:12 but winning games, scoring goals
09:14 and making our fans enjoy it.
09:16 There will be Champions League games,
09:18 which is a competition that attracts us a lot
09:21 and we're going to focus a lot on doing it well.
09:25 In life, things come as they come.
09:30 Not all are good, not all are positive.
09:32 Try to adapt the sail.
09:35 You know, windsurfing, you have a sail and the wind.
09:38 The wind comes from here, I adapt the sail.
09:40 The wind comes from here, I adapt the sail.
09:42 It's a bit the same.
09:43 I really like the city, I like the country.
09:49 I would like to learn the language as soon as possible.
09:52 That's what's costing me the most.
09:53 No, next time, no.
09:55 Pronunciation is so difficult.
09:57 Very difficult.
09:59 But well, I don't know when,
10:01 but my goal is to speak French.
10:03 I'll end up speaking French.
10:05 I might have to wait 10 years, but well.