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A
pacheta
(Salas de los Infantes, Burgos, 1968) everyone called
Pacheta
, as his brothers, and his father, like his grandfather, one of those traditions as a people are disappearing at the same rate as rural Spain does.
In a way, the match being played this afternoon in El Alcoraz is an allegory of that process.
He in front of the small Huesca against the gigantic Real Madrid.
Nothing that scares a Pacheta who came to First as a footballer after having given
classes in a Vocational Training institute and he reaches First as a coach after accumulating experiences all over the world, from Soria where he resides to Thailand.
What remains of that wooden master Pacheta?
I will always have the pillars of my parents, of a miller and a farmer, which are honesty and work.
That was clear to me at the age of 19 and also now at 52. I think that training has a direct relationship with training and with the growth of the human being.
He is very close even to being a father.
Everything is training.
Today it is impossible for a 21-year-old teacher to be a First-class player at 26.
I am grateful to have come to First at 26, mature.
Now we want everything to go very quickly and we demand a lot from the player very soon, because they are better at 19 than we were already mature.
Now, due to food and lifestyle, they are physically men at 18, while we were children at 20. The player arrives physically and technically very prepared, but I don't know if his construction as a person is up to the task.
We have to be very careful with the rush with the children, which is what they are, no matter how much money and social prestige they may have.
But finding the balance is not always easy.
There are guys who are earning 100,000 euros a month at the age of 17.
That can only be managed with a great environment that keeps the child grounded.
You have to know how to choose well those around you.
You can't choose your parents, of course, but family is key.
With exceptions, unstable parents almost always create an unstable family.
It is possible to be a great footballer without passion for football.
Is it possible to be a great coach?
I do not think so.
Your first job is to convince the player to believe in you.
If you don't have a passion for this profession, it will be difficult for you to achieve it and impossible for you to enjoy what you do.
Someone may have that ability, but I don't see it, I can't conceive it.
I am clear that if one day I lose my passion I will have to quit.
I went to train in Poland and Thailand because I am chasing dreams and I believed that leaving would bring me closer to them, with all that that entails.
I always give my players more cane when we win than when we lose.
Did he go alone?
Yes, alone, without assistants and leaving my wife and children in Soria.
On a personal level, the experience in Thailand was hard, but at the same time extremely enriching, it made me a better coach and I think a better person.
I already know how long the energy lasts for me to go several months without seeing someone I love and now I am clear that, if I leave Spain again, it will not be alone.
Either I go with helpers or with family.
With a shoulder to cry on.
I have been with my wife since I was 20 years old, my children are older, my family life is good ... That gives a lot of peace, they understand me and support me.
Without their understanding, I would never have left.
Have you learned over the years to manage losses?
No, because I think I'm invincible, that's the feeling I have, although I lose many times later.
When I lose, I need my hours to mourn and find solutions.
Until I succeed, I am not able to go out to eat with my family or have a beer there.
The defeat does not authorize me to be happy.
And managing it like this makes me grow.
I admire someone who is capable of growing in victory as much as in defeat.
I can't, although I try.
I always give the player more cane when we have won than when we have lost.
In victory, the player better admits the mistake.
He says that the current footballer lacks passion and street.
Many coaches now miss the reading of life and the game that the street gives you.
My childhood has been on the street, in a very small town, wearing shorts, even though it was 10 degrees below zero and half a meter of snow.
The street makes you a human being and a smarter footballer, because you learn decision-making by blood, by stick.
When you have to play with boys five years older than you, if you catch the ball you don't lose it, because they give you a slap.
That makes your decision making learned by fire.
We miss that.
Now we have technically and physically better players than when I played and the next step must be to move the fairway to quarry work, surely there are ways to do it, although it will never be the same.
We spent six hours playing in the street and in the academy they will be at most an hour and a half.
I live in a province that has 80,000 inhabitants and each year loses a thousand.
In 80 years there will be no one left.
The towns where you can play for six hours in the street with kids of all ages are dying out.
Does emptied Spain hurt?
To unsuspected limits.
My town is small, 1,800 inhabitants, but we still have certain services.
Around there are towns where relatives used to live and where I see houses falling down, because no one lives anymore.
People who are 80 years old and live in those towns, we have to bring them to the residence that is in mine so that they die there.
Because if they stay at home and fall or whatever happens to them, we won't find them alive.
People are not aware of how hard it is to get someone out of their home, while they are still healthy, to live 10 years in a residence.
We have to be much more consistent with that emptied Spain.
Because then we want to go to town in August.
And if no one lives, the streets are not held.
It hurts a lot, a lot.
I see how the young people are leaving.
I live in Soria, a province that has 80,000 inhabitants and each year loses a thousand.
In 80 years there will be no one left.
And how is it fixed?
You just have to want to fix it.
If you pay the same salaries in Soria as in Madrid, you will see how many people return to Soria.
Now, with teleworking, it does not matter to work in the city or in the town, perhaps it is necessary to bring large communications networks to rural areas.
And these measures have to be taken by politicians, who are the ones who direct us, for that we elect them, we elect the brightest to have these ideas, right?
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