Den spanske tränaren Xavi Sabate berättar om coachlivet i Veszprém och om en spelare han inte bad om att få.
Hetmeteres har gjort en lång och intressant intervju som översatts till engelska i Timeout Magazine och det här är riktigt bra läsning. Ta chansen att lära känna en av toppcoacherna i världen som halkade in i storklubben Veszprém på ett bananskal.
Xavi Sabate gick från doldis bakom Carlos Ortega och lämnar nu plats för Ljubomir Vranjes i Veszprém. I den öppenhjärtiga intervjun säger han bland annat:
– I believe in projects, not in quick results. If you trust a coach, you have to let him work. If you are satisfied with a coach, then you are satisfied with the results. If you are not, then you are not with the results either.
Han beskriver också hur Marko Kopljar blev signerad av Veszprém utan Sabates vetskap:
– Kopljar is one of the players that I got but I didn’t ask for. I think he is a good player but he doesn’t fit in our system. Our game requires different players than him. For example, I think our defense is the best in the world. Aggressiveness, mobility, self-devotion: these are the characteristics for our team. Kopljar is not like that.
– I tried to find his place in the team until Christmas, but when the real season started after the holidays and we started the real race for the trophies, a player that doesn’t give 100%, those character doesn’t fit in the team, can’t have a place in the team. If you want to win trophies, you have to perform your best on trainings as well. I told Kopljar that if he can’t do that, he won’t play.
– Kopljar is a player that arrived to Veszprém hardly playing in the last two years. I don’t know why we signed him. I remember it was written in Nemzeti Sport that Veszprém is building “one of the best right sides in the world”. This was only an illusion for the fans, it had noting to do with reality.
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