Post by mesi on Jan 11, 2024 4:14:44 GMT -5
The former Celta de Vigo coach, Juan Carlos Unzué, said goodbye to the Galician club this Monday after stating that he would have liked to continue on the Balaídos bench next season. Everything indicates that his replacement will be Antonio Turco Mohamed, an Argentine coach who spent his entire career between his native country and Mexico, with Monterrey being his last stop.
"I would have liked to continue because we already know the house and I believe, from my experience, that if the team remains the same, the second year is easier than the first. But the decision has been made, it depended on them. I cannot agree, but it is what it is," explained Unzué.
"I will be eternally grateful to him," he added, "for giving me the opportunity to train in First Division, but seeing the final decision, one leaves with the feeling that perhaps it has not Binance App Users Data met the expectations that were had. We try to adapt to the group and the results. "They are there. Time will tell if they are better or worse than we think today," he added.
Weighted by the shadow of Eduardo Berizzo, who led Celta to its first semi-final of a continental competition - the Europa League - and two semi-finals of the Copa del Rey, Unzué never won the affection of a sector of Celta that was very critical of his job.
"We would have to ask the fans if I have disappointed them. But for me the word disappoint is very aggressive and is not in my language. I have not deceived absolutely anyone because when they signed me they knew what our idea of the game was, and that We tried to apply this idea from day one," he commented.
"I understand," he continued, "that we have not lived up to their expectations because most of them thought that we were going to achieve the results of the previous year, but they have not looked at the history of the club and that a new coach has come. But I can't make excuses for that because I know that the last thing a coach has in football is time," he added.
He revealed that at the end of April, in a meeting with the general director, Antonio Chaves, and the sports director, Felipe Miñambres, he was informed that he would not continue on the Balaídos bench: "It was a disappointment in a way because I thought we could do something interesting next year," he continued.
Unzué recognized that Celta had a squad to fight to enter Europe - they finished twelfth - and pointed out the injury to Spanish international Iago Aspas as a key to being left without options with three days remaining.
"I would have liked to continue because we already know the house and I believe, from my experience, that if the team remains the same, the second year is easier than the first. But the decision has been made, it depended on them. I cannot agree, but it is what it is," explained Unzué.
"I will be eternally grateful to him," he added, "for giving me the opportunity to train in First Division, but seeing the final decision, one leaves with the feeling that perhaps it has not Binance App Users Data met the expectations that were had. We try to adapt to the group and the results. "They are there. Time will tell if they are better or worse than we think today," he added.
Weighted by the shadow of Eduardo Berizzo, who led Celta to its first semi-final of a continental competition - the Europa League - and two semi-finals of the Copa del Rey, Unzué never won the affection of a sector of Celta that was very critical of his job.
"We would have to ask the fans if I have disappointed them. But for me the word disappoint is very aggressive and is not in my language. I have not deceived absolutely anyone because when they signed me they knew what our idea of the game was, and that We tried to apply this idea from day one," he commented.
"I understand," he continued, "that we have not lived up to their expectations because most of them thought that we were going to achieve the results of the previous year, but they have not looked at the history of the club and that a new coach has come. But I can't make excuses for that because I know that the last thing a coach has in football is time," he added.
He revealed that at the end of April, in a meeting with the general director, Antonio Chaves, and the sports director, Felipe Miñambres, he was informed that he would not continue on the Balaídos bench: "It was a disappointment in a way because I thought we could do something interesting next year," he continued.
Unzué recognized that Celta had a squad to fight to enter Europe - they finished twelfth - and pointed out the injury to Spanish international Iago Aspas as a key to being left without options with three days remaining.
