In Primera, the competition was a seen and unseen. Once the stop was over, the days were chained together until they were exhausted. Now comes the Champions League, with a different format, but which should also be developed without problems. Yes, there was one in Second A, where everything had gone like silk until the last day. He play-off has been delayed, but already has dates. The coronavirus has been unable to stop professional football. Strict protocols and a study-worthy organization have allowed the competitions, the leaders, to move forward. No audience in the stands, yes, but after all football was back after a few weeks of uncertainty. The situation, however, is totally different when you start going down steps. It looks like another world. From the Second Division B down, also counting the basic categories and not forgetting women’s football, the reality is different. The questions multiply, to the point of not knowing when it will be possible to play and under what conditions. While waiting for the Royal Spanish Football Federation to draw some lines to follow this Monday, the clubs are living in anticipation, not knowing what tomorrow will be like. We try to work as normally as possible, planning preseasons, building templates and setting goals. But always with the fly behind the ear. With a thousand and one doubts. It happens to him in Girona. Leaving aside the first team, the entity moves a structure that accommodates 21 teams. A handful. We are working day after day to, as happens every summer, get the job done once workouts resume. But this year the uncertainty is palpable. On Monday, for example, Girona B should return to work with the desire to play a good role in the Third Division, which is not at all clear. Today he knows who he will play against, but not when he will start or under what conditions he will compete. Albert Siria, the sports director of the white-and-red branch and also of the Girona Academy, talks about all this and more.
Questions
The coronavirus continues to wreak havoc on society. The situation seems to be getting worse again and it is becoming difficult to predict what will happen. Non-professional football, whether senior or grassroots, lives up to expectations and Montilivi does not escape it. “We live it with respect, as happens in any area of society. On many levels it is causing us doubts. For starters, we don’t have any scenario. The only thing that has come down to us are the FCF and RFEF prevention circulars in terms of friendlies. In this case, he explains that “they generate a series of controls that greatly increase the costs of being able to work with minimum guarantees. It is an added cost that could not be foreseen. He adds that “we do not know how these expenses will go. Whether they will fund them or will be a management of each club. If so, we may have a lot of problems. I put myself in everyone’s shoes, especially those who don’t have a professional structure. It can be a drama.
Girona B
The subsidiary, after a more than deserved promotion to Tercera despite the blurred final stretch of last season, will initially start training on Monday. Despite the jump in the category, a goal pursued by the club for some time, the goal is none other than to “give stability” to the new reality and “continue to build players” that are valid for the first team. Nothing more. Syria is very clear. “We have the staff almost ready. We wanted to give continuity to a very good batch of young people. We add some ceded, and some player who stays. On the one hand, what we want is to continue with the construction of the footballer and on the other, in the qualifying framework, we want to stabilize the category. Despite the youth I find that there is a talented team. We will always be competitive, but without thinking about rankings. Continuity also on the bench, because Áxel Vizuete and his coaching staff will continue for another year. “Stability always gives a plus, a certain level. I believe in people, in professionals, and their work has been upward.
Youth stage
One step below, before catching the branch, we come across the youth stage. An important, transcendental category. The club has announced some incorporation of players of this stage in the social networks, but of changes there have been few. Syria explains why. “There is no excessive news because we have stabilized the level. This means that less and less equipment is retouched. Youth A, for example, has only made four signings and we are waiting for just one more, which needs to be finalized. And so on with the different age groups. The freshman is where we have perhaps made the highest peak of signings. But in general we have a lot of stabilized players who have a long way to go and what comes from below has a level that we already want. This speaks positively of the work the club has done at the base in recent years. “We set ourselves a line and a growth project that we believe has taken place. We are better than when we arrived but we also need to grow. There are players training with the first team and today there are a lot of footballers who tomorrow can be the basis of the first team.
Technical body
Áxel Vizuete is still at the helm of Girona B. The same goes for Àlex Marsal, in youth A. This is the tone that Girona has opted for in the 20/21 season. “We have given continuity to the structure of the technical bodies that exist. They are kept almost one hundred percent. There are only a couple or three exits. We have run into a tough situation and above all there are people. We valued their sporting performance, but we also believed that having them all was our obligation.
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