Directing the fates of a team in the soccer elite is not an easy task. Absolutely. Having a second on board where you can place maximum trust is tremendously vital. Many turn to their best friends. As Pep Guardiola did with Tito Vilanova throughout his time at Barça, for example. Some, very few, have a tremendous advantage: having someone of their own blood next door. Carscar and Roger García, who are now in charge of taking the helm of Celta as first and second technician, respectively, are the last representatives of a rather rare peculiarity.

Although, not to be very habitual, the Spanish First Division can boast having had two more pairs of brothers on their benches over the last decade. Juan Carlos Garrido , with his brother Raúl next door, directed Villarreal's fates between January 31, 2010 and December 21, 2012. Gary Neville, meanwhile, had his twin, Phil, at his side when he was under Valencia, between December 2, 2015 and March 30, 2016. In this case, a stage as ephemeral as it is convulsing.

At the international level there are other examples. In Argentina, twins Guillermo and Gustavo Barros Schelotto , agreed in Boca Juniors as first and second coach, respectively. And other twins, Julio César and Jorge Dely Valdés, also did it on the bench of the Panamanian national team. The one in Croatia had the address of brothers Niko and Robert Kovac for a while. And Ronald and Erwin Koeman worked at Everton and Southampton, before they both separated their paths to lead to Holland and Oman, respectively.

«For me, that is something that can totally influence positive. Oscar has always had different assistants and physical trainers and there has been a circumstance that Roger was now without a team . When I left the Sabadell, my first option to accompany me, on any other team, has always been Roger, but due to circumstances of both, the case has not occurred. Oscar had been training for almost a year and Roger was also interested in doing so. From my point of view, what better than your brother can accompany you in this new job, in this very important challenge for both of us, ”said Lluís Carreras, former coach of Sabadell and former Barça player.

Of course, you are very clear about what your arrival on the bench of the Galician team can mean. «Go ahead that, for me, Fran Escribá is a very very good coach and a very very good person, a very trained technician. Having said that, we are talking about Oscar and Roger. With one I played from 12 to 20 years and the other I had second. Therefore, I have high esteem for you. They can contribute football, which would be good treatment of the ball, pressure, talent, high defense, controlled risk ... to a team that needs it, that has players to do it, that they are in a difficult situation and that they have to leave it », Says Carreras.

As for Roger, although he does not dare to venture his role in Celta, he knows very well what his best qualities are. «I know Oscar a lot, I've seen how his teams play, but I don't know what role he plays for each member of his coaching staff. At Sabadell , I was in charge of the strategy myself and Roger helped me in the audiovisual section, with the analysis of the opposite. The goalkeeper, Omar Harrak, was responsible for preparing the videos and Roger explained them. He reads the games very well and always has this much needed point of support, and he will surely do it with his brother, who is to propose what he would do during the game. Always, giving value and importance to the decisions of the first coach, of course, ”emphasizes Carreras.

From his point of view, the fact of stepping on Camp Nou again will be, of course, very special for both, although it will also be a challenge. «It is difficult for Barça to lose two League games in a row and to have three or four consecutive games without winning. I have faced them many times, not as a coach, but as a player, and I preferred to take them at the beginning, September, at most October, because sometimes it is still a team to do and it may cost them to start. In principle, because I played against them with Murcia, and we got four, with Mallorca we played against them for Christmas or in January and they beat us 0-3. Maybe right now it is not in a good moment of results and game, but it is still Barça », says the former soccer player culé.

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