«It is a pleasure to be here and I take on this project as a challenge. “I want to return Lugo to professional football,” highlighted the new coach in his presentation.
27 dic 2023 . Updated at 12:00 p.m.
Supported by the president, Tino Saquesand by the sports director, David Peláez, the new coach of the Lugo Sports Club It was officially presented this Wednesday morning in the Ángel Carro press room. Paulo Alves54 years old, takes the relief from Pedro Munitis carrying under his arm the style manual that he has always applied in his long and successful career in Portuguese football, where he has been the architect of the promotions to First Division of Gil Vicente and Moreirense. And in the latter, with a historical record of points and goals scored, as highlighted by the club’s boss in the speech that opened the event. «“He transmits serenity and confidence and his teams have an offensive character,” said Saqués.. “He is a winner, with recent successes and who transmits temperance,” the sports director defined him in his turn to speak. In his speech, Peláez dedicated words of gratitude to the previous coaching staff. “At the level of dedication there is no doubt that they worked for the good of the team, but in football success is also necessary and there we were left a little behind,” he said.
After the leaders’ impressions, the question time began for Paulo Alves, who opened his speech by explaining the reasons that led him to accept the proposal of the albivermella entity. «It is a pleasure to be here and I take this project as a challenge. It’s not that I knew much about the club, but I know his career and I want to return him to professional football, which is his place. “It would also be important for my career,” he said. The new coach is clear that to achieve the objective, a “collective and individual commitment” is essential to, from there, put together a “strong, responsible, balanced group that knows what it is doing at every moment of the game.” His idea is build an “offensive and dominating” Lugo and that “the fans are proud of their team and their colors.”
Alves arrives with the mission of turning the Lugo team into one of the main candidates for promotion to Second division. Or what is the same, settle into positions of privilege and never lose sight of leadership. These are the duties that the club has imposed on him and he assumes them naturally. «We have to know how to live with that pressure. The league is very complex and open, and nothing is definitive until the end,” added the Portuguese strategist, who already announced that “there will be no special treatment” for his compatriot. Gonçalo Tabuaço.
The new Albivermello coach does not arrive alone at Ángel Carro. He is accompanied by two of his trusted men: Ricardo Jorge de Silva Amaral, second coach, and Joaquim A. de Assunção Rocha, goalkeeping coach. “We have been working together for a long time and it is important for me to have them,” he highlighted.
Filed in: CD Lugo Primera RFEF
2023-12-27 10:58:00
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