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Ernesto Valverde, a former FC Barcelona coach, considers that training with Leo Messi “cannot be compared to anything” and stressed that if “seeing him play from afar impresses”, doing it “up close, even more so”.
“It is very difficult to tell Messi if you have seen this or another when he is doing something in training, something that you have not even seen,” Valverde said in a video conference talk organized by the Basque Football Federation moderated by Mikel Etxarri in the one that participated together with Xabier Azkargorta, Aitor Karanka and Roberto Olabe.
Valverde, dismissed last January after two and a half seasons at the helm of the Barça team, added that the Argentine star is a footballer “easy to train” and with “a great boost with respect to the group, because he has a great ambition for win”.
“That makes me feel a great obligation to the club and to the game; and it forces everyone to be at a very high level, “added the‘ Txingurri ’, for whom the elite trainers have the obligation to be” with the plates in the middle of the circus and none have to fall. “
«You have to be with each player, with the goalkeeping coach, the utillero, the press coach. I try to bring together the work group and give a lot of confidence to the people around me. Where I have gone, I have chosen to take people from the house, put them in the group and give a lot of margin, “he explained.
In reference to Athletic, which he directed in two stages (2003-2005 and 2013-2017), he stressed that “the management of the quarry is an advantage” and “not an added pressure”, because the players who are “close to the first team They have a solid base.
“You know how they breathe and that the adaptation to the first team will be easy,” he said.
“There are players in recent years who are entering in a clear way and without going through any kind of transition. Yeray is a clear case, or Córdoba, “he said.
On the other hand, on the comparison of the current game with that of his time as a footballer, he believes that “football has evolved a lot” because the “difference in pace is very high” and is played with “more together and with greater precision.”
«The technical perfection is getting bigger. Occasionally I play a game in which I played and I almost don’t want to even watch, ”Valverde joked.
EFE
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