Joaquín and Koeman, meeting after the fire: "He was going to bed warm"

"I am tired of many things and quite pissed off," said

(Zaandam, Netherlands; 1963) in one of his last press conferences as Valencia coach.

The team had gotten out of hand.

Albelda, Cañizares and Angulo had been removed from the squad.

Defeats followed.

Juan Soler, the president who endorsed him, had left the club due to health problems.

The locker room was broken.

A

(El Puerto de Santa María, Cádiz, 1981) was noticeable discomfort on a boat that was drifting.

He said so in public and in private.

Koeman was crossed by the character of the Portuense, friend of the exiles and one of the leaders of the small revolt against the Dutch coach.

"There were times when we had to explain ourselves on the board how we should play," the footballer went on to say, for whom those months "were not a pleasant experience."

This afternoon they will meet, without greeting each other, on the Camp Nou pitch.

meet on the ninth day of the League and between Joaquín and Koeman there will be little more than silence.

They already said everything in that 2007/2008, which ended with a Cup that was not held and a dismissal on matchday 33, when Valencia was defeated 5-1 in San Mamés and the decline was just two points away.

"It cost 30 million"

As soon as he returned to his country, Koeman gave an interview to the Dutch television program 'FC Het Gesprek':

said.

"I do not regret having signed for Valencia. Otherwise, I would not have known what it was. Although if I had not gone, I could have been the Netherlands coach or Barcelona coach. I was on a list to be," he added.

Interestingly, time would make him meet both expectations.

Joaquin entered the rag immediately.

"I hope I am half as smart as he, who has made

said.

"He has proven to be a bad coach and a good person he has little," he added.

And a phrase that remained marked in the fans: "The only thing he worried about was that there were five or seven bottles of wine at dinner. That he went to bed warm."

The fire went out by itself, but there is still the ash from that crossing of statements.

Joaquín has avoided rekindling the flame in the previous match.

Pellegrini's Betis is looking for regularity in its football and Barcelona is still lost in its institutional labyrinth.

The Verdiblanco captain only thinks about winning, "whatever the way it may be", and dedicating the victory to

, singer of Sevillanas, illustrious Betic, and friend of the footballer, who died this week at the 59 years old.

Gone are those times of Mestalla, the warm-ups in vain, the cracks before the microphones and the fires from the inside.

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