Betis manager Manuel Pellegrini on Liverpool pre season game - English
25/07/2024
UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, Pittsburgh, USA
25/07/2024
UPMC Rooney Sports Complex, Pittsburgh, USA
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00:00Yeah, I like it.
00:03I like it.
00:04Hello.
00:05Hello.
00:06Hello.
00:07This is for the politicians.
00:09This is for the actresses.
00:10Ah, for the politicians.
00:11This is for the ones who are coming.
00:14I have a lot of support and satisfaction.
00:21Good afternoon and welcome to…
00:23Are you ready?
00:24Are you ready to start the meeting?
00:26Are you ready or not?
00:27Yes.
00:28Good afternoon, everyone, and welcome to the press conference, Real Betis press conference.
00:39We have our coach Manuel Pellegrini here with us, and later on, Adrián, our player, will
00:46also answer your questions.
00:48So we'll start with questions from the room in English, please.
00:52And who wants to start?
00:55First off, just how excited are you to be playing such a big, glamorous friendly over
01:09here in the stadium?
01:11Well, I think that we came here to Eustad, knowing that we had two beautiful games against
01:18big teams, as Liverpool and Manchester United.
01:21We are starting the pre-season, also Liverpool, so I hope that we can have a very good game,
01:28not only for us, a useful game, especially for us and for Liverpool, but also for the
01:32people that we go to the stadium to see a good game.
01:36How easy is it to prepare for Liverpool, considering, obviously, we don't really know too much
01:42about how they're going to play under a new manager?
01:45No, I think that the new manager is working with young players.
01:50They don't have the complete squad.
01:52We also don't have our squad.
01:54So I think that the players that will play tomorrow, they must demonstrate why they are
01:59players and our players.
02:01They must demonstrate why they are here in both squads.
02:04For me, it's very important, not only the game, the way you play the game.
02:10It's pre-season, but I think that both teams must give their best.
02:41I think it's going to be a very good game.
02:44The second question, the answer is that neither Liverpool nor us have the complete squad,
02:53but I'm sure that it's going to be a good opportunity for the other players to show
02:59what they're capable of.
03:11How is it when a new coach comes into a team, a big team as well, and takes over from a
03:18very popular manager?
03:19How difficult is that as a new coach coming in?
03:22Well, always when you arrive to a club, it's difficult, especially the first month.
03:28You must give your idea of what you want for your players and the way you want to play.
03:34For me, I think it depends a lot on the squad of players that you have.
03:40How many good players can give what you want to demonstrate on the pitch.
03:46It's difficult, but I think that the coaches that are in big teams have the experience
03:52to do it.
04:03Obviously, you're in the room with your new signing as well, so I just wanted to know
04:29how happy you are to have Adrian at the club and what he's going to bring.
04:35Well, first of all, I think we must tell Adrian that now he must play for Betis,
04:40to know which goal he will be.
04:46I worked with Adrian before, so I know his experience as a goalkeeper.
04:50I think that all the years that he played in England, he knows also Betis very well,
04:55so he will be a new player, but a player that knows exactly what Betis is.
05:02We have a lot of responsibility with our fans.
05:07Adrian has a lot of experience for young players, and from the first day that he arrived here,
05:11he demonstrated that he's absolutely complete to fight also to be in the Saturday XI.
05:20You're welcome.
05:22I'm very excited to have Adrian on the team.
05:26First of all, we have to let him know which club he's going to play for, so he doesn't get confused.
05:33Also, obviously, Adrian has a lot of experience, he brings new players,
05:38and Adrian also knows Betis very well.
05:52Hi, we are Ivan and Mateo.
05:55We come from Pittsburgh Latino Magazine and Radio Las Palmas.
06:00We are like a local media.
06:02The first question that I have is, what do you think about Pittsburgh?
06:07Well, I have been here in the United States a lot of times, but never in Pittsburgh.
06:10The first time that I came here, beautiful city.
06:14We just arrived yesterday, I hope that the next day we can see it a little bit more,
06:20but a very beautiful city.
06:26The next question that I have is, we know that you have a couple of players out right now.
06:31Do you think that they are coming back soon, or what is your expectation from them?
06:37Yes, we have some players.
06:40First, we went to Austria last week, and after that, travel arrived with us for this part of the pre-season.
06:50Marroca and Jordi Cardoso, two players that are working with us.
06:55And probably in the next week, when we arrive to Spain again,
06:59the other players, like Jose Pere or Germán Pesela, that played with our national team,
07:06will be working with us at the beginning of August.
07:13The first question was, what do you think about Pittsburgh?
07:18I have been here a lot of times, but never in Pittsburgh.
07:21It's the first time, maybe in the next few days we can get to know it better,
07:25but I think it's a beautiful city.
07:29The other question is, with so many injured players, how do you see us?
07:36Since we went to Austria, we have been talking about Marroca and Cardoso.
07:40They are starting to recover.
07:42And then we hope that in the next week, players like Pesela will be able to recover.
07:50Any other questions?
07:54Okay, then we will start with your notice from Seville.
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