The new coach of Santa Fe, Pablo Repetto, spoke with The VBar Snail about the team’s current affairs. Among the highlights, he confirmed that everything is closed with the first signing for next year. This is the Uruguayan midfielder Franco Fagundez.
“Yes, I’m not into the details, but is all awake. He’s Uruguayan, I’ve directed him. Maybe the present is not the best because he has not played, but to the extent that he is up to the task, It is going to be very important for the club”, he began by saying.
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For his part, he stressed that he will use him behind the center forward. “In the youth teams he played as a forward, as a center forward. With us in Nacional he played behind the 9, in Santos Laguna behind the 9 and now the idea is that he plays behind the 9“, said.
Fagúndez, 25 years old, can play in the center of the field or on the left wing. Emerging in Nacional of Uruguay, he was in that club until 2024 and since January of that year, He arrived transferred to Santos Laguna in Mexico.
In the Mexican team he did not have much filming in the last year and even went on to play in the under 21 team. In total, they were 34 games, in which he scored 3 goals and gave 2 assists.
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Other statements by Repetto
Your connection to Santa Fe: “We had a while talking, talking about football, about the end of those projects an economic agreement was reached and today in the stage of putting together the team. There have been casualties, we are evaluating the new ones and we are in that process at the beginning of the year.”
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Your contract: “I signed a contract for one year, there is no clause. Generally, or always, I have respected the contract because I have handled myself this way. I am not going to reproach Bava, possibilities arise along the way, but there is a contract. I came to Santa Fe to respect the contract. In some cases the contract ended earlier, this is football, but I believe that if everything goes well, we will fulfill the entire year and then we will see.”
The legacy of the Uruguayans in Santa Fe: “There is a history of prestigious coaches in Uruguay, of high level. I know them all, I followed the 2015 campaign with Peluso, so that means there is a greater responsibility and the bar is high. Hopefully we can live up to it. We aim for that and it is the objective we set for ourselves, it is a dream, to achieve the most with the team.”
Sosa and Meli do not follow: “There were two players that we talked to, that we weren’t going to count on them, seeing the quota of foreigners, that perhaps we need that quota in other positions and they are not going to continue.”
Foreigners in Santa Fe: “When we put together the squad, what we look for is the need for players at the level of the club and mainly Colombians, who are at the level of the team and if we see positions that are not up to the level, we will have to go out and look for them. I can’t say how many. Today we have two, Olivera and Fagúndez, there could be four or two. The market is marking us. I would like them to be as few as possible, for reasons of adaptation.”
The objective in Libertadores: “Win all the games. Then set the goal of winning the Cup, be it the greats of Colombia, Uruguay, or Chile, we all dream and even more so when you have a story, but that dream grows or not with the team’s performance. We have to go step by step and we will get more excited.”
His opinion about Marino Hinestroza: “We brought him to Nacional because we knew him from Mexico, we had to face him and I remember a goal he scored against us, the most uneven player in Pachuca was him. When the possibility of Marino arose I didn’t doubt it and today he is the player I thought, I was surprised how he arrived, the Colombian league is too small for him.”
When do you return to practice?: “On the 2nd (January) we are already starting. On the 15th we play one of the finals, then the championship, the Super League, it is a tight schedule. We need the players to adapt to the height, to the idea of the game, physically. It is a tight schedule, with little time. You have to make the best decisions because you have to win everything you can.”
