Miguel Alonso has been working at the base of the French club for two years
18 abr 2024 . Updated at 05:00 a.m.
Almost two years ago, the moas Miguel Alonso asumi un attractive and complex challenge equally in the Olympique de Marseille, where he is responsible for high performance at the base. It came hand in hand with Marco Oterowhom Pablo Longoria signed as quarry director. The idea is that the club becomes a trainer. Historically, it has not been, it has not had a model that has borne fruit in the form of players for professional football, he introduces. Now, they are at it. We are far away and three years, which is the length of our contract, is not enough, but we are going for it. good wayvalue.
When this possibility was presented to him, Alonso saw a attractive proposal when it comes to living a new experiencein a country and with a language that he did not know – but that he could learn easily – and also in a club that, until the emergence of PSG, was the most great of France, remember. I had never experienced anything like it. I come from Valenciawhich is a city dedicated, but this is another level, tells about the way of living football.
They believed that they could do it well and their assessment for now is that it is not going badly at all. As an example, the under-18 team will soon play the semifinal of the Copa Gambardella of the category, a prestigious event that they have not won since 1979 and whose penultimate round they have not contested for around a decade. In addition, the under-17 and under-19 teams reached the finals for the first time in the history of the academy. The changes that we have introduced they have not been popular for many people. But by doing the same thing we were going to have the same results, he points out, explaining that things have changed and, at the same time, there is still room for improvement.
But what changes have there been with the arrival of Otero and Alonso? The Moas specifies that he is responsible for the high performance of the quarry and that this goes beyond establishing a work model regarding physical preparation. It also covers issues such as direct or coordinate training of injured players, readaptation…. Figures that were not there, or not with that level of specialty or training. They put me like medical area coordinator, processes, organization chart and structure. Of course, I am not a doctor, I do not go into diagnoses or treatments, it would just be missing, but I know how it has to be information flowbecause it is decisive, he warns.
Seeing that there was a weak point in that aspect, and although he considers himself more of a coach than a physical trainer, Alonso also directs the methodology area. There is no such department from the organizational chart point of view, but once a week, we hold a technical meeting and internal training, he details. When older, he calls himself bomber who takes charge of the teams when there have been temporary gaps. I don’t have time to get bored. I am Marco’s trusted man. I know that if he asks me, it is necessary. And for me, being in the countryside is like recess, he admits.
Aware that the stability does not exist in football, recognizes that it is easier to find it at the base. I have come with a three-year contract that no one signs for you in professional football, he notes. She has been specializing and trying to improve in this area for years and affirms that they are stages that she really likes. The difficulty is in the point of view economic. Only the top clubs allow you to make a living from it; In the rest, it is unviable, he emphasizes.
When asked what the keys are to getting to where you are, he says that it is essential to have contacts and be close to people with doors that are more open than you. In his case, he worked for ten years withPablo Alfaro and, when he decided not to continue with it, being unemployed, the phone rang to go to Valencia, a stage of which he has great memories. Marco Otero asked about ‘those crazy people from the Pontevedra group’ and he was the only one free, he remembers.
Girldez was one of those players that makes you better
Miguel Alonso enter a Claudio Girldez in Pontevedra, not in Porrio, despite the fact that both had important links with that club. When I was there, he had just left. We invited him to talk to the children and two years later, I had him as a player, he says. He highlights his intelligence and his training. He does not have a typical professional footballer profile as we can keep in mind. He’s a guy who looks that went deeper, I didn’t accept everything from you, you had to justify it. He is one of those players who makes you better. And he admits that he didn’t play much, although he played a good role when it was his turn.
He loves that these types of profiles can reach the first team because it is good for them and for Celta, a club in which he played for ten years and of which he is a fan. I’m glad we finally have a home coach. The quarry also has to be for training technicians. Being the Celtic a training clubThat he gives confidence to his coaches seems fantastic to me, one of the best news that we coaches who are nobody, who were not professional players, can have. Although he was, he has been forming and going through stages.
The one who did enter the Porrio was Claudio’s second, Rber Fernandez, from cadets to the first team. They are profiles that I love that can be in the first team and I hope they do well, because it is good for them and for Celta, he adds.
Rubén, another exclitic in the Olympique
At Olympique, in addition, it coincides with Rubn Blanco, owned by that club since last summer and after having previously been on loan. We agree a lot, we have lunch or dinner once a month. Moncho Bastos, the president who gave me my first opportunity to coach adults, is a friend of his father and told me that we had to meet, he remembers. They did it together with David Solleiro, another Galician coach from the club that Alonso took there and they have repeated. I know that both he and his family are very happy here, although he does not have a leading role and when he had the opportunity to play, he could not due to injury or illness, he points out.
2024-04-18 03:00:00
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