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There are times when one leaves home to feel at home again.
This is the case of Miguel Ángel Sánchez, whom everyone knows as Míchel (Madrid, 1975).
"It was a very big stick that they stopped me at Rayo, but here he has always trusted me," acknowledges the Huesca coach, who has returned to teach in the First Division, after winning the Second Division again.
Today you will savor your first great adventure.
It's his board against Simeone's.
Where do you live better: in the band or on the field? Much better as a footballer.
As a coach, it's 24 hours mulling over the concerns that your day-to-day may generate, with 24 players you have to attend to, and then the competition.
In the end you have to be very concerned about many things and as a player you enjoy everything much more. Is training a vocation or just another way to earn a living? It is a vocation.
What happens is that on a professional level I did not consider it until four years ago.
I loved what I did in quarry work: training kids, having a methodology, looking for the improvement of the footballer ... That is what catches my attention the most.
It is a bit of being a teacher and training a player both personally and professionally.
I love it and it is what I enjoy the most. Do you have a reference as a coach? I have spent 17 or 18 seasons as a professional footballer.
I have had many coaches and I have very positive details about all of them.
Things that I saw as negative from the outside, now I can understand them more.
Everyone had their personality when transmitting, their knowledge at a tactical level or the you to your personal, which is very important.
I am getting an idea of what I have learned from each one and then what I would like to see happen.
What I do do is speak to the player's face and I'm quite honest with everything I tell him.
The you to you with the player is essential and they appreciate it very much. It must have been hard to get out of Vallecas, but Huesca did not take long to call him. It was a very big stick that they stopped me at Rayo.
The call from Huesca was a sign of confidence and he assumed that all the work he had done also had value abroad.
It is true that people have me as a member of a club, but I have shown that I can do the same elsewhere.
Míchel, sitting on the bench of El Alcoraz.EFE
After the hiatus due to the pandemic, his team took off.
What was the secret? First, the professionalism of the players.
The work they did in the shade, each one of them in their home, was very good.
I always said that they were very professional players on a day-to-day basis and that it was a pleasure to work with them.
That was reflected in the competition in those 11 games where we were one of the best.
We had a very high rate of training and we knew that we would be competitive in every game. What would the Champions League be for Huesca in this League? It is clear, finish in the Champions League [laughs].
In the Second Division we could not choose to play the Champions League, but in the First Division, yes.
Obviously we are not a club that aspires to play it, but we are a club that we want to enjoy the category.
Have a great year and be where the ranking dictates on our merits.
We do not put a ceiling on ourselves, although we know that we are going to suffer.
We want to be protagonists and that happens because we are clear about the attack-defense balance and we are very competitive in all matches. Do you spend a lot of time studying every detail of the rival? Yes, a lot.
There is an idea, a style and an identity, but there are always small details that are marked by the rival.
We modify situations depending on the adversary.
It is clear that it is not the same to face Atlético as it is to Cádiz.
The rival has to be present in all our work, Atlético seems to have recovered the goal.
Were you surprised by their tremendous debut against Granada? Atlético has potential winning 1-0 and winning 6-1.
The only thing that shows is that right now they are plugged in.
We already knew what his potential was and now, with Luis Suárez, even more.
It makes them stronger and we will have to suffer.
With Luis Suárez, Atlético is a contender for the title
Speaking of Luis Suárez, how much can a player revolutionize a team? Discovering Luis Suárez at this point ... Everything I say about him has already been said.
He is among the best in the world, but he already was at Barça.
It will make Atlético and LaLiga stronger, because the differences between those above have been smoothed out.
Atlético is a contender for the title, having faced the player Simeone and the coach.
Which is more complicated of the two? What Simeone does as a coach is an extension of what he did on grass.
Their teams work as a small team: they are very, very strong defensively and in attack it is a team with many automatisms and talent.
It is different to face a player than a coach.In the two games, with Rayo, Atlético won with great difficulties.
It seems that you have the potion to contain them. They are parties and circumstances.
Now we face a different moment.
We will try to make the match against Atlético as difficult as possible.
We have the idea of how to achieve it, but we must also bear in mind that it is a rival that comes with very high morale and arrives very plugged.
We know the difficulty, but within our humility, and that we are a small team in the category, we are going to do everything possible. Vallecas is one of the confined neighborhoods of Madrid.
What do your family and friends tell you? My parents live in Vallecas.
Their area is not confined by a street, but they live the same situation.
I think we must find a solution to all this.
We have reached a point where you have to be very careful with the virus and take the necessary precautionary measures so that everything subsides.
I don't know where the situation is now to restrict only some areas and not others.
My family is suffering because my brothers work outside the Vallecas area.
It is not comfortable for anyone and hopefully a good solution will be found.
And, above all, that everyone can lead a life as normal as possible within the situation we live in. The economic situation is not simple either. Vallecas is a working-class neighborhood where many people have either lost their jobs or are afraid of losing it because of the illness.
We all have to worry.
As a Vallecano it worries me.
We know that it is also an economic crisis and hopefully we can lend a hand to solve it. It does not seem that we are going to be more unique.
What is your recipe to face this situation? Think about being more supportive and that our politicians come together to find solutions and not confront each other.
It's fundamental.
And may everyone seek the best for our people.
If we all do it together, we will do much better.
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