Aldo Pedro Duscher does not doubt it
.
At 44 years old, he says, with a firm voice and a confident expression, that he is prepared to take the next step in his life:
formally begin his career as a technical director
.
The former midfielder who emerged from Newell's and with a great career as a footballer in Europe (Sporting de Lisboa, Deportivo La Coruña, Racing de Santander, Sevilla, Real Español, Barcelona from Ecuador, Enosis from Cyprus and Veria from Greece) has the license of UEFA and seeks to launch himself as a head coach to
vindicate the values of the leprous school
in which he was trained and that allowed him to reach the Argentine National Team.
"Preparation leads to success or failure. Beyond the experience as a footballer, the career of a coach is another. It is putting yourself in front of another person and teaching. But for that you have to prepare yourself because you cannot teach if you have not learned the script," Duscher tells
Clarín
from Madrid in an extensive talk that covers his thoughts, his search in this new stage, the example of Lionel Scaloni (with whom he shared a squad for many years) and his critical view of Argentine soccer.
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The former midfielder launches his career as a coach and spoke about the case of Lionel Scaloni, with whom he shared several years in Spain.
After eight months directing the Newell's Reserve, he crossed the Atlantic to settle in Spain and train.
After experiences in the minor divisions of La Coruña and Getafe he says that he hopes for
"a serious opportunity"
to start.
"I believe in work, discipline and values. I believe in long processes. The most important thing is to reach the player," he remarks.
-What is the most effective way to reach the player?
-The only way to get to him is when the player says “this guy knows because he has a game plan, a training methodology.”
The “give it, give it”, the “hit it, hit it” or the “press it, press it” no longer work.
-Is there a lot of “go, go” and little work in football?
-There is more and more preparation.
It is good for the person, beyond the footballer, to teach him and make him learn something.
It makes me happy to see former colleagues of mine working with passion, desire and preparation.
I'm going that way.
That's the way.
There are some who go other ways and it is totally acceptable.
-Is it more difficult to reach the player of today than the player of your time?
-Communication as a coach is key.
Today the footballer has a lot of information.
The players watch a lot more training and care more about tactics.
They have the power to watch games from anywhere in the world through different platforms that we did not have before.
There are also cultures.
Directing in Argentina is not the same as in Europe.
For example, here (in Europe) the majority of youth players are studying university degrees and the clubs put coaches who can continue with the dynamics of a boy who is studying.
And there they take the card because if you are not up to the task... The boy comes from listening to a professor of medicine and if when you face him you do not know how to reach him from your wisdom it becomes difficult.
I'm not saying it's right or wrong.
Over there, the passion that Argentines have in football, they don't have it here.
It should be a mix of both things.
Aldo Duscher seeks to bet on a long-term project as coach.
Photo: Brand
-Did you have offers from clubs to direct?
-We have had meetings with important clubs, but we are not going along the same line.
We have to wait for that club that looks at sports;
most do not look beyond Sunday's result.
It is a race in which you can crash very quickly.
If I analyze that it is a league or a club in which you lose five games and don't have much of a future, I won't go.
I consider that I must defend my group and that we should not throw away all the work that has been done.
Mind you, I don't think I'm interesting or special, but I have a belief and if I'm not working it's because I'm not going anywhere.
Meanwhile, we prepare and I enjoy the process, analyzing matches, tactics.
We get together three or four times a week.
At some point we are going to have to prove it.
-Do you have a defined style as a DT?
-The way of training has to be clear.
Today football is about transitions, back and forth.
A coach who wants results has to know the moments of the games.
We all want to play like Guardiola, many have tried, but the difference about Guardiola is how he trains.
We all know how his teams play and the players he has, but we don't know much about how he trains.
Duscher gained experience in the minor divisions of Deportivo La Coruña.
-You had many coaches as a player, from whom did you have things that you apply now?
-I am of the Newell's philosophy.
I have grown up there.
It made me reach First Division, it made me reach Europe and it has marked me because it paid off for me.
From the formation of Jorge Griffa, who unfortunately left us, through Carlos Picerni, Roque Alfaro and Marcelo Bielsa, whom I have had in the National Team and I know what he did in Newell's.
I believe in that philosophy, that of discipline, work, promoting young people... The number of players that he has produced is evident.
It is a club that always opened its doors to me.
-Would you start directing in Argentine football or would you prefer to wait for something from Europe?
-It's hard for me to come back sometimes.
I see a system that is very difficult, a system that if it does not change we will not advance.
I'm talking about soccer in Argentina, where they change coaches every five games.
The player is the most important thing and remains in a third level.
If you change coaches every five games you leave nothing for the player.
You make a mess in his head.
You don't help him.
There are clubs in Argentina that work well and I take my hat off, but they are very few.
I know the culture of European football perfectly because I spent a lot of time here and I look for that, that the processes are respected and that they let you work.
Let the manager be someone prepared.
Don't get carried away by a result.
I don't like someone pointing fingers at me for the result of a Sunday.
As a fan, I tell you that Argentine soccer is one of the three best in the world.
Now, if we go deeper, it leaves a lot to be desired.
-Can it change or is it already part of Argentine culture?
-Obviously it can be changed.
You have to be brave.
Leaders have to be brave.
People want to win, but to win there has to be a process because that gives you an identity.
The result comes at the end.
There are new leaders who are on the right path.
You have to give them the opportunity.
-You know Scaloni very well and he burned all the manuals. Is it just an exception to the rule or proof that someone with no experience can do great things?
-When Scaloni's name began to be heard, no one knew what he had done, but Scaloni prepared himself.
He took the course.
He was with Jorge Sampaoli.
Success is not having been a coach for 20 years.
How many coaches are there who have been coaching for 25 years and haven't won a championship?
Scaloni prepared himself, had the opportunity and took advantage of it with very good management.
He achieved what he achieved because there was something behind it.
It's not that he stopped playing and became a coach.
There is the case of Martín Demichelis as well.
Turning off Gallardo's light a little is very difficult, but you see Martín planted in River.
He prepared five years before this.
Experience is very important, but passion and desire come with one.
There are coaches who arrive at 9 in the morning and leave at 12 noon and these kids may be there all day.
People don't see that.
The job of a coach is very comprehensive and there is more criticism than anything else.
-How do you get along with criticism?
-You have to like quilombo a little.
If you don't like quilombo, stay at home.
Newell's present: "Losing a classic is like losing three games in one"
He left his native Chubut full of fears and hopes for Rosario, which became his new home.
Newell's sheltered and raised him and at the age of 17 opened the door to the top category for him to begin an extensive and successful professional career.
There he played 31 games in total and scored a goal (against Independiente), but Aldo Duscher was forever lost to the Rosario club.
"I always watch Argentine soccer as well as soccer from all over the world. From Argentina I also watch a lot of Reserve matches that are shown on YouTube. And I always watch Newell's. If it plays at 3 in the morning I watch it," he says. Duscher about his fanaticism.
And he analyzes the present: "At Newell's with Heinze's process there was a way of training with an idea of a long process. This is a game and also requires its share of luck. I saw many games in his cycle in which he lacked that luck. to win. He arrived nine times and the ball did not go in. That is also football. Currently, with a new coach (the Uruguayan Mauricio Larriera), he started well. Whatever coach he is, I always wish him the best and support the club. I hope that we recover."
The 1-0 defeat in the classic hit Lepra hard, which is trying to overcome.
Duscher experienced it from a distance: "Losing a classic is very hard, it's like losing three games in one. Unfortunately in recent years it has been difficult for us against our eternal rival, but we are Newell's, a big, formative club that is going to recover ".