Leandro Gracián, after the departure of Boca: from "Riquelme did not build the team" to "we were not only going to eat barbecue at the club"

The news of the day in Mundo Boca is Gerardo Martino's refusal to accept Juan Román Riquelme's proposal to take over the xeneize squad.

But, less than two days after the departure of Hugo Ibarra as DT of the team, the one who broke the silence was one of his most important assistants in the team's formation, Leandro Gracián.

And he wanted to talk.

"It is difficult to leave Boca, a huge institution where you live with what you propose both as a player and as a coach: to be on top, fight for all the championships because you have the best players", Tanito started in the pass of the Mariano Closs program with that of Sebastián Vignolo on ESPN.

"

, we should have communicated more to show what we were working on," he continued.

"It's not that we went to the club all day to eat barbecue," said Gracián.

"How are we going to assemble the team," he insisted. 

In addition,

: "No,

," he said.

"

."

"With the squad, Thursday and Friday we presented the game planning to Hugo. We saw the rival, we helped Hugo and we got results," he continued.

Gracián referred to the rumors of the players' lack of confidence in Hugo Ibarra: "Do you notice that they were not given tools?" Closs asked him.

"Not at all, each coach lowers his idea of ​​the game, his methodology in the way he feels it. But we gave him tools, after we have not been able to translate it on the field of play, it is the responsibility of the coach and his team. But we planned the training sessions... one of the things I want to say is that Boca's structure is immense. Behind the coaching staff there is a very big job. We plan the training sessions, the content, we work on the offensive phase, the defense. I could tell you two thousand things, we worked a lot", responded Gracián.

El Tano referred to Ibarra's famous meeting with the players that would have been a turning point in the DT's relationship with the squad.

"The final talk lasted ten minutes," Gracián confessed.

"What hurt me the most was the farewell, but I feel good for the job we did."

Why didn't the players react?

"It's difficult to be a Boca player, it's stressful. The player lives for Boca. Sometimes it seemed that the team had no mobility, but we always work on unchecking. But not because the player didn't want to, but because he didn't come out," he explained. . 

News in development