Ha year ago, Fran Garagarza took the reins of the Sports Directorate with a major challenge, returning to the team First in just one season. Precisely, 12 months later and with the objective achieved, the Basque reviews to BRAND a campaign that has been tough but that has ended with the promotions of the team led by Manolo González and the Women’s Team. Furthermore, it makes it clear that the youth team must play a key and vital role in the club in the present and in the future. We must not forget that the Espanyol It is going through a delicate moment economically and the property maintains the line of the last markets: there are no resources to sign.
Against this backdrop, the Sport City acquires even more prominence. In fact, during this last year he has already linked more than 40 footballers between the first team, women’s team and the base and, at the time, he even stopped the departure of a cadet and a child to the base football of the Real Madrid. “The 21st is key, due to belief and necessity and you have to have a solid base to renew guys, have talent, shorten deadlines… it is no coincidence to have had seven players in the Spanish national team,” he explained. Fran Garagarza.
The word demand is fundamental and has to be higher
“That is a sign that there is talent and footballers who deserve to be bet on them. Everything needs a process. The word demand is fundamental and has to be higher, we have to take a step. We have to generate processes of individual improvement, of Going beyond the hour and a half of training. It’s not just about playing football, it’s also about living it, just playing doesn’t give you the sense of belonging, recovering those forms with the clubs, the leadership in the territory. …”, added the sports director.
Madness in the arrival of the Espanyol bus to the Stage Front
Precisely, the arrival of the Basque to the club also led to the creation of a strategic plan whose guidelines have been intuited, for example, with the renewal of Omar and Joan García or the recovery of Ruben Sanchez. In addition, it has implemented new departments such as individual improvement, big data and psychology. “From my area I am already carrying it out. It is not developed as it should. More solid bases are needed as a club. From my department, the economic and sporting viability of professional football in the face of an alarming economic situation, which is reality, tells us We have to adjust and look for situations that improve,” added the Basque.
The economic and sporting viability of professional football in the face of an alarming economic situation leads you to adjust and look for situations that improve.
Avoid being an ‘elevator’ team
Although the season in Second It has been very long, the calendar gives no respite and in a few days the Espanyol returns to training. In any case, a long market is expected due to the property’s stance of economic austerity, which complicates sports planning.
We have to strengthen ourselves
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“We have to strengthen ourselves, the level and the demand is higher. The First He doesn’t forgive you. It is more difficult to tie than in Second. There is more speed and quality and, obviously, one of the rival’s two chances will be a goal. You need a competitive block to not be the elevator team, that now goes up and now goes down and give that sustainability to the club. The team needs to improve in many positions and get it right in some key areas. It is a very important challenge and there will be a percentage of teams involved in the fight to avoid relegation and one will be a recently promoted team like the Espanyol“, he reflected.
It is a very important challenge and there will be a percentage of teams involved in the fight to avoid relegation and one will be a recently promoted team like Espanyol.
One of the decisions already made was the continuity of Manolo Gonzalez. Precisely, Barley He remembers that the coach was one of his bets when he arrived. He signed him to lead B. His good grades in management, tactical analysis, rival analysis, game analysis stand out… and also that he surrounds himself with a good staff.
Joan García, Braithwaite and Puado
Three players have been key in the rise of the Espanyol: Joan García, Braithwaite and Puado. “They are three active, involved, professional, with a fundamental role in the club and there are their numbers… We have to keep them, the base starts there,” he acknowledged.
We have to maintain them, the base starts there
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A “positive” year in office
The 26th of June, Fran Garagarza arrived at Espanyol with the challenge of returning to the elite and, above all, with a market ahead complicated by the economic situation. Despite this, the sports director is satisfied with this first year. “The balance is positive, the objective has been achieved although it has been in a difficult way. But we must not only look at the first team, the Female, after a play off, and has returned to the category where he belongs. The youth team has achieved two runners-up finishes and won the Cup of Catalonia. In the face of adversity we have recovered and the first team has taken that step against a play off which was toughness against big rivals with entire cities behind them,” he acknowledged.
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