David Movilla, Zamora CF coach, praises Bilbao Athletic and Lezama: “I think it is one of the best places to work.” The rojiblanco subsidiary, to try to repeat the promotion playoff.
Bilbao Athletic faces a new competition (1 RFEF) this Sunday (7:30 p.m.) at the Ruta de la Plata stadium in Zamora with a squad almost traced to that of last season, except for the promotion of Nico Williams, Imanol García de Albéniz on loan to CD Mirandés in the Second Division, and goalkeeper Julen Agirrezabalaga, riding with Marcelino García Toral’s team. The rest, with the novelty of Imanol de la Sota as coach by Joseba Etxeberria, is well known, including Sillero’s return to the central axis of his assignment in Soria. Boys with a lot of projection from 2000, 2001 or 2002, Paredes, Prados, Artola and Nico Serrano fired in part of the first team preseason, and the high bar of the last two promotion playoffs touching the feat on the Costa del Sol, eliminated to penalties against CD Badajoz, and in Extremadura by Burgos CF with a solitary goal from Saúl Berjón.
De la Sota opens this League in Group I, Western Conference, with the doubt in the goal, Ander Iru or Agirrezabala if released by Marcelino García Toral from Vigo, with Aitor Paredes fresh out of confinement for the central axis, with Andoni Tascón repairing his quadriceps injury and with an eleven that he has tested in the last two friendlies against Racing and Castilla that will not differ much from the one he uses this Sunday: Iru; Núñez, Sillero, Lorente or Jaso, Kortazar; Prados, San Bartomolé, Diarra; Artola or Cabo, Urain, Serrano. The hallmarks are intensity, high pressure and prominence with the ball. In front, the Zamora CF skippered by David Movilla, former coach of Leioa and Barakaldo who was a goalkeeper until youth in Lezama. He knows the cubs by heart and this summer he has signed up to four Biscayan players, two of them with a past at Bilbao Athletic such as the versatile Iñigo Baqué, injured in recent weeks, and the left-back Jon Rojo, signed from Unionistas. They are accompanied on their new adventure by Jon Mikel Magunagoitia, a young Zornotzarra goalkeeper who has played for Eibar, and the extreme Santurtzarra pizpitero Kepa Vieites, who comes from Arenas, with a past in Alavés B and Sestao River.
David Movilla would have liked “a couple more weeks” to prepare to face this start of the League against the Bilbao subsidiary: “What this team needs is to grow in terms of those relationships, that rapport, but those processes of evolution and improvement will be accentuated in the competition itself, “he says. «What we are going to try is that something happens, that we find ourselves with the best version of the Zamora seen to date. First, because the category requires it, and second, because the rival has a capacity that, if we do not improve our version, lower-level teams have scored three and four goals, since Bilbao Athletic has the capacity to score twice as much. We are aware of what the rival requires, we are responsible that we have to evolve by leaps and bounds, “he sums up.
The Biscayan coach of Zamora considers that Bilbao Athletic «is a rival with one of the best quarries in Spain, due to a tangible issue: the number of footballers who make up the Athletic squad in the First Division every year, by the number of players that there are in other clubs that have come out of this quarry, and then in less tangible terms, but of which I have more knowledge, I think it is one of the best places to work ». The Ruta de la Plata was used to many victories in the last three seasons: «But what I perceive about the Zamora fans is that they are aware of the difficulty of this challenge. In less than a year, we practically ascended two categories, we have large-scale rivals, and I believe that humility, together with other values, have led us to face matches against large-scale rivals who a priori have more economic capacity, experience or aspirations. higher ”, relates Movilla. For this reason, he understands that his fans, back on the pitch, represents “a fundamental part of the last three years, I don’t understand Zamora without their fans and I don’t understand the fans without their team. I believe that it is a binomial in which we have to go hand in hand “, Movilla ditch, who faces Bilbao Athletic in an exciting challenge.
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