08/25/2021 17:05
Clarín.com
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Updated 08/25/2021 17:05
Corrido del noise, one year after the last game he led in the MLS and on the verge of turning a decade as technical director, Guillermo Barros Schelotto reviewed his professional growth in a journey that had high points from the start and with experiences that They branded it with fire.
“In Boca everything that is done is sized by one hundred.
The good and bad.
But it's what I like
.
It doesn't make me nervous going out to a full Bombonera, or playing finals or matches against classic rivals like River, San Lorenzo, Racing, Independiente… For me it's exciting;
attractive.
You want to fill your life with those moments ”, the Twin started when his story focused on the stage as Boca coach.
Schelotto's analysis was published on the site The Coaches Voice, dedicated to capturing experiences and analysis of coaches in the first person.
This time, the chosen one was the Argentine DT, who chose Timoteo Griguol and the Uruguayan Gregorio Pérez as his main teachers in football, although he stressed that what he lived in Boca with Carlos Bianchi at the head of the team was "unique."
The transition from the court to the bench was practically immediate for the Twin, who immediately took refuge in his brother Gustavo, who had retired seven years before and worked as a field assistant, and in Ariel Pereyra, another old acquaintance of the unforgettable Gimnasia de mid 90's.
“I perfectly remember my first day as a professional coach - Guillermo relates - in Lanús.
On the way to the club I was thinking about what would be the presentation message to the players, because many of them had been my rivals.
They were contemporaries, but he had to give them the image of a coach.
I had nerves;
added to the unknown of knowing how I was going to feel.
Beyond the anxiety, and that it was something new in my life, that Lanús squad made me feel very comfortable.
I asked the players for a task and they did it ”.
Guillermo Barros Schelotto accepted defeat in Madrid with nobility.
It was his last game in Boca.
Photo: Marcelo Carroll.
De Lanús took home the star of the 2013 Copa Sudamericana. And he was looking for his first experience in European football, at Palermo in Italy.
A cycle that was diluted in just one month due to bureaucratic problems.
“UEFA had asked me for three years of experience to grant me the license. I had them. But then they went on to ask for two more years of experience and the truth was that it was very uncomfortable as a coach to be in the locker room because someone from Serie A came and told us that we could not be there because the issue of the license was still under discussion and not was given. Before the games, I couldn't be in the dressing room, ”recalls Schelotto. And despite everything, he affirms: “Those thirty days were an enormous experience. Having worked with players like Maresca or young people like Quaison and Vázquez. Also from the human side: growing in the management of the group ... There were players 16 different nationalities ”.
Although without a doubt the stay in Boca was the most mobilizing.
With his idolatry as a footballer on his back, the Twin took over a group that competed until the end, both domestically and internationally, but which despite everything
will be marked by the historic final of the Libertadores in Madrid and against River
.
Guillermo Barros Schelotto left the Los Angeles Galaxy a year ago and is still without a club.
Photo: Harry How / Getty Images / AFP.
“We were two-time champions of the local tournament and we reached a semifinal and then the final of the Copa Libertadores, but the most important thing is that we had a squad in which we empowered all the players.
All those who arrived left;
they improved their career ”, highlighted Guillermo on The Voice Coaches.
And he specified: “Seeing Darío Benedetto, Nahitan Nández in Italy, Lisandro Magallán in Europe, Cristian Pavón with the permanent possibility of going to any team, the Colombian Wilmar Barrios in Europe… All the players that we formed and that we believed in them , and that we work on them because we did something thought out, because everything that one does with intelligence, with time, with work, is not from today to tomorrow, it is in the future and in the future it does give you performance.
But it is difficult in today's world to impose that
”.
The last stop was in the MLS, a league he knew well from his four years as a player for the Columbus Crew.
"The development as a coach in MLS is much more general, but the passion with which one lives in Argentina is different," he remarked.
When you lose it's the worst until the next game in seven days.
In the United States the defeat is more intellectual
.
It does not affect weekly work or mood so much.
It was a very good experience beyond the results ”.
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