The coach brings together more than 150,000 followers in his first meeting on Twitch
He says he does not know anything and is not particularly skilled with new technologies, but Luis Enrique was seen in his sauce in his first appearance as a ‘streamer’. From Qatar, the coach convened this Friday around his “caripera” and his words to more than 150,000 people, a not inconsiderable figure for these platforms. A communication success.
“I start with the clear intention of knowing your concerns and seeing what things I can tell you,” started the coach, who did not wait a minute to remember Gayà, the sad protagonist of the first day in Qatar, the fifth concentration. «The immediacy of the matches and the World Cup implies taking many risks. It is always difficult. It’s the hardest part of being a coach.”
Luis Enrique revealed that the origin of the idea is in his son, in the hours he spends watching the most famous ‘streamers’. «It started as a joke and was taking structure. This is full reality. Nothing is ready.”
The coach, with a new microphone and much more light than the day he announced his new channel, spent nearly an hour talking with his followers, who were bombarding him with questions through a chat “that went as fast as Nico Williams.” “Thank you all for the response, it’s amazing,” he conceded as he strained to read the shower of comments. He expanded with pleasure in the most football questions and preferred not to count more than necessary in the most personal matters, although he did not evade a single issue. Among many things, he assured that he likes the nickname ‘Luis Padrique’ that proliferates on social networks among those who most defend his work as coach. He also sent a greeting to Amunike while he remembered his ‘haters’ and even explained cycling war stories. The minutes passed and Luis Enrique was an unstoppable torrent. «At school they always threw me out for talking a lot and this is going to be my therapy. If I don’t like something I’ll leave it and holy Easter, I don’t depend on anyone. But today I hope to be here every day during the World Cup.”
On many occasions he tried to be diplomatic when talking about his preferences, especially about players, but in the end his weaknesses ended up showing up. First, from historical players, like Iniesta, Villa or Quini. And then, of the current ones. Starting with Busquets, “the foreman”, Dani Olmo or Ansu Fati. «The day he debuted with the national team as a starter against Ukraine he caught the ball in the first minute, threw a pipe, made two cuts and caused a penalty. I looked at Rafel Pol and said: ‘What is this, Oliver and Benji?’». Another stellar moment was when they asked him if he would call himself up for this team: «Not as a starter. Maybe I would put myself among the 26. And I also generate a good atmosphere ».
For the coach, Spain is one of the favorites “indisputably”, but within a large group in which he also included Brazil, Argentina, France, Germany, England, the Netherlands… He also ruled on the possible crossing with the ‘Canarinha’ in the quarterfinals: «We have seen all the possibilities, but it does not make sense to make calculations about whether it is better to finish first or second in the group. What does Brazil play? Who said fear”. And he called the inexperience of his selection “topicazo”. «Only Luis de la Fuente can complain, that I take seven or eight players from him in each call. They are young, but they let themselves be guided by the veterans.
At broadcast time, Luis Enrique considered that it was enough. He answered the latter and summoned his new legion of followers to a new connection while he froze on the screen. Things from the first day.
