Matías Bustos Milla
09/08/2021 7:01 AM
Clarín.com
sports
Updated 09/08/2021 7:01 AM
The first steps of Sebastián Battaglia as Boca's coach yielded some positive edges,
changes in a game idea to take center stage
, hits that came from the bench with the reading of the game and mainly points to accommodate the team in the table.
But in the coach's phrases there was one that stood out last weekend and that viralized a reflection of his great teacher:
Carlos Bianchi
.
"A coach has to have good players, not phenomena and intelligent. If they are intelligent they can achieve things; now they can have great players, but not intelligent, and they will not achieve things",
was a reflection that the Viceroy left as a commandment and that in recent days flowed from one social network to another among Boca fans. Why?
👉🏽 #Battaglia remarked in a conference that "having intelligent players, everything is easier" ...
Legacy 💙💛💙 pic.twitter.com/tFU4vaincc
- Boca Net (@ bocanet12) September 5, 2021
Sebastián Battaglia, after the victory in Arroyito against Rosario Central, was responsible.
"With intelligent players it is easier to put an idea of the game in such a short time"
, was the praise of the Boca coach for his managers, whom he barely had under his command for two weeks but with whom he achieved small improvements in an identity a lot more protagonist than you had with Miguel Russo.
The coach did not give names, it was a global look and that also includes several of the youths who are just taking steps in top-flight football.
But the technician knows them well.
Doors inside the assessment is for the leadership of the group that Izquierdoz, Rojo (also praised in public by Juan Román Riquelme) to which
Pulpo
González was
added
on a day-to-day basis. That includes social media posts that go down the line. "None of us is as important as all of us together," the player who arrived from Racing a year ago wrote in recent days.
In a squad with a very low average age, the experience of some surnames has more to do with setting guidelines than with football. There it is Battaglia the one who reaches out and seeks to exploit the footballers that he molded in the Reserve in the last year and a half.
The coach also knows that youth brings ups and downs by the hand.
"We need to identify when a boy is having a bad time and ensure that he does not have sustained low peaks, because I am going to need everyone," Battaglia stressed days ago.
With a great relationship but still without a call for advice or specific glances,
Battaglia and Bianchi coincided in the farewell
of the maximum champion in the history of Boca as a footballer with the greatest great coach of the club. It was, in fact, the last time that the Viceroy entered Brandsen 805, with a recognition that also made him return to Riquelme a la Bombonera after his departure from the club in conflict with Daniel Angelici.
The irruption of Juan Ramírez in the midfield organized a good part of the story. The former San Lorenzo is considered cerebral but at the same time someone who from talent is capable of providing that quota of quality different from the rest. The kid Aaron Molinas, despite his youth, is recognized to understand the game in a different way and want to learn. In Almendra, meanwhile, they observe an enormous quality on the court with a power that is difficult to calculate. "Almendra is going to decide what he wants to do in football. If he wants, he can play in Europe or in the National Team,
because he has plenty of quality,
" was Riquelme's message days ago. Battaglia knows that in him he can also have someone who makes a difference.
Already without renowned "stars", with few poster players, and with some conflicts already identified in surnames that seemed to be left aside in the consideration (Villa, it was clear, does not enter the plane of "intelligent" footballers) , Battaglia's brief cycle yielded three victories and a draw with Racing in which he deserved something more.
With much to correct, improve, enhance and even discover.
But the calm of the coach on and off the court are tracks of
his own style that he himself is looking for
.
Look also
The unpublished video that shows the intimacy of Boca's feat against Real Madrid in Japan
Riquelme's other message: his political project for 2023, a hotel in the Boca area, and a school?
