–”I worked very early and I was ‘lucky’ that that work allowed me to work together. I remember when I was in kindergarten and we played at 11. He told me: ‘damn Róber, take me the warm-up. I’m going to leave Ikea at 10.’ “He arrived in a hurry… He made a lot of efforts.”
The anecdote does not come from just anyone, but is told by something more than a colleague, a friend: more than a decade ago, Roberto Montes He was the physical trainer for Mareo’s training teams, a time in which he met and worked with a twenty-year-old with overwhelming desire who at that time was making a living in the famous furniture chain. That boy is now 41 years old, he has just renewed with Racing until 2026 and is today one of the fashionable coaches in the Second Division. On Saturday, José Alberto López returns to El Molinón, with a full house, to fight against his Sporting of the soul, with the Santander project in the play-off, and, also, boasting a recognizable style of football that he falls in love with. “I’m not surprised at all by what he’s doing with Racing. It’s the team profile for José,” he begins. Manolo Gaspar, who hired him for Málaga after being fired at Sporting. “He is playing his football: a happy style, with high pressure and that is dangerous in the transition. He lives the profession a lot. It is very intense, and that infects the team,” says the former sports director of the Costa del Sol club. “If I could go back, 100% I would have made another decision,” Manolo Gaspar sincerely points out about the dismissal of José Alberto.
LA NEW SPAIN goes back to the origins of the Asturian coach and reviews some of the experiences of a career marked by a permanent spirit of improvement. From the Mareo campus, he to succeed in professionalism. “The first memory I have of José was a boy who came with the desire to continue training. Competitive since the youth’s formation. Both on an individual and collective level. And all without ever losing sight of the goal of being able to enjoy professional football” explains one of the people who knew him before and best at the club, Alejandro Menendez, crucial figure in the launch of Sporting Femenino. “He’s a football nut! I remember that he even had a place in his house to analyze the games,” says Montes. “He always stood out for that: for that passion, for that desire to grow, to train. You saw something different in him. Like the year he decided to go to Covadonga, and then he returned to the club in the Honor Division,” she says.
Gonzalo Fernández, “Soti“for everyone”, he looks back. Remember how she met José Alberto. “I was lucky enough to meet José when I was with Pulgar at Marino. As he was from La Fresneda, we began to meet at the Golf Club. Pulgar introduced him to me. José was in the reserve team, but it was in the Third Division and he didn’t have There was no one who was going to record him, or anything, and he was the one who recorded in the fields. Every little while we met. Little by little we got into a relationship. And at the end of the season he said to me: ‘Do you want to start with me?’ He put his money in. He even paid me… From that one, in Mareo, he didn’t get paid. Torrecilla didn’t give me permission to be ‘officially’ integrated. I recorded the game. I waited there, in the room Because of the salary, there was no commitment to having an analyst. It’s not like now, where they even have images on the bench. At the time, Sporting did not believe in it. José, yes. He believed in studying the rival. It was an outstanding student. We met at my house a lot. Or I was the one who went to his house,” he explains.
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