Setién's confession: "I am not one of the worst in the Barça rounds"

Quique Setién converted , the past month of January, in the new trainer of the FC Barcelona until June of 2022. The Cantabrian arrived to the Barcelona bench in replacement of Ernesto Valverde, with which the team finish to be deleted of the Supercopa of Spain in semifinals but that went leader in LaLiga Santander​ and was classified for the eighth of final of the Champions League. The Cantabrian arrived to give him a turn of nut to the game of the team.

Ramiro Amarelle, a good fellow with which shared selection in his period of player of football-beach, chatted with him about some curious subjects. "I happen it to me very well in the rondos. I am not of the worst", went one of the confessions of the technician, that added that it carries "more than 40 years living of the football and this has been a privilege all my life. The balloon is always what has attracted me, is what more have enjoyed and expect to follow doing it some years more".

Setién Also explained how was like player. "I was not trainer inside the field. It did a lot case to the trainers especially at the beginning when with 18 years arrived to a team of first division. All what say you want to do it. But over time you darse of where really are better and where surrender more. In juvenile, when it played of 9, never finish playing of 9. Anybody marked me guidelines. I knew that it could go down receive dribble… had very good arrival of second line", said.

"A day see to the Barça of Cruyff, are inside the field and see that what likes you is that that do they"

Thanks to the Barça of Johan Cruyff, woke up his interest by the tactics. "When I arrived to the first team of the Racing put me of 9. Here it touched very little the balloon because they forced you to be here. A day came a trainer that put me of mediapunta and here gave again the potential that had, but until I did not see to the Barça of Cruyff did not concern me a lot of the tactics, I went out to the field to play", signalled.

The technician santanderino finally decided to be trainer. "Never I thought that it wanted to train, even I took me out the titles without thinking that it wanted to train. But a day see to the team of Cruyff and are inside the field and see that what likes you is that that do they. In a lot of stages in the Racing the trainers were very defensive. We put us backwards and the aim was to avoid the descent. I bored me a lot. When it saw as they played here and that were 80 minutes behind the balloon and did not see it… here is where begin to see the tactics and to darse you of what likes you", remembers.

For then, Setién no longer wanted to change of idea of football. "You begin to fix an idea in your head and this is the one who follow. I was a difficult player to carry because there was a big conflict between what to my liked me and what liked them to them, but were the trainer and commanded they. I tried to convince them and some did me more case but others commanded me to fry asparaguses", sentenced.

The quarantine

Setién, that wishes "to go back to the normality", appreciated that his woman Rosa and his daughter Sofia, that lived in Santander, arrived to Barcelona before the total confinement. "The idea was to expect to finalise this season and the school course of Sofia. I was here only although it did not go so much because a lot of weekends came. Some days before confinement closed the school so they took car and came . I am happy because it is not the same alone that with the family", commented.

Besides, it explained his confinement. "I adapt me quite well to what touches. The reality is above all else the other. Think that there are million people shut home some in 50 metres with 6 or 8 people without our conditions carry it of another way. But it is truth that there are moments that ask the air of the sea, the lawn, space to be able to run and happen it of another way. But this is what touches and get along it", recognised.

The technician culé keeps fit with his woman. "We put us the two together doing tutoriales of youtube of people that does sport without means. When I carry 18 abdominal no longer can more whereas Rosa arrives to the 20 that ask you. It is very in shape", desveló.