Interview Robert Moreno: "The selection was an apprenticeship, I have erased everything bad"
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One of the things that has most attracted the attention of those who follow the first steps of
Robert Moreno
(L'Hospitalet de Llobregat, 1977) as coach of
Granada
are his ways in the media pulpit. Where security and trust run the risk of being confused with pride. In his long apprenticeship - «I have been a coach since I was 14 years old; I have stepped on the ground », he is used to crying out when someone talks to him about lack of experience - he tried to decipher the way to communicate messages. Before he broke up with
Luis Enrique
, whom he assisted in
Roma
,
Celta
,
Barça
and the
Spanish team
He tried to attend all the Asturian's press conferences. Discreet, he was placed in a corner and did not lose any detail of the coach's scenic domain. And the emotional wall that he built in front of journalists.
There are 26 games that Robert Moreno has directed as the main coach in professional football. Nine with Spain, which he qualified for the last European Championship (seven wins and two draws); 13 with
Monaco
, from where he was fired after reading about it in the media (five wins, three draws and five losses); and the four with whom he has premiered in First with Granada, with whom he has not yet achieved victory (two draws and two defeats). This Monday he returns to the Camp Nou, whose bench - the local one - has the ambition to occupy in the future. But as the first coach. For now, he continues to be a Barça partner.
«In Granada we came from a very personalistic time, marked by the figure of
Diego Martínez
.
The team was made in his image and likeness.
Any coach would have had it difficult, but Robert has gone to the antipodes of all that, "explain those who know the club's routine first-hand.
An entity that, at the hands of Diego Martínez, perhaps lived its best stage ever.
It was he who promoted the team from Second, who settled him in First and also who led him to qualify, and also fight, in Europe.
His two protectors
Martínez is now unemployed and waiting for an offer that will make him resume his career on the bench. And Moreno tries to deal in his own way with a heritage full of traps, beyond the casualties of such important players as
Yangel Herrera
,
Dimitri Foulquier
,
Roberto Soldado
,
Kenedy
or goalkeeper
Rui Silva
.
“I don't think a coach should impose a model without taking his players into account.
I'm not going to be the one to change things that have been done well, "declared Moreno the day he was introduced as Granada coach along with his great protectors at the club:
Patricia Rodríguez
, the CEO, and
Pep Boada
, sports director and who worked for 17 years as a scout for Barcelona.
Moreno has known him since 2003. "The normality will be to see Granada in the First Division and, continuously or alternately, in Europe," said the coach without hesitation.
Obsessive worker
«But there has been a cultural clash in the dressing room with the old guard, very used to Martínez and his rocky and very competitive proposal. The fresh idea of being a protagonist in the game does not go too well with the praetorians of the old coach. When you get to a team done the best thing is to intervene just enough and take great care of the climate of the locker room so that they are with you. He should be advised by those inside, "they explain from Granada.
Moreno was always an obsessive worker and tried to lean on everything that technology could offer him.
At the dawn of his career, with a tripod on his shoulder, he was already recording the training of 12-year-olds.
And during his time as Luis Enrique's assistant at Barcelona, he studied reports from rivals weeks in advance.
Before signing for Granada, he had already seen and analyzed all the Nasrid team's matches last season.
The drone is always present in their training sessions - Diego Martínez or
José Ramón Sandoval
had used it sporadically
.
And video sessions have come to the fore.
As with Luis Enrique, he also has a psychologist (
Marc Sellarès
).
"My model is to win," Moreno reaffirms.
Football does not wait.
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