Luis Garcia Plaza He was presented this Thursday as the new coach of Deportivo Alavés, a lightning incorporation of the albiazul club after finishing the season, in search of “recover identity signs“of the team, as explained by the President, Alfonso Fernandez de Troconiz. “He is a coach for a new time, it is about laying the foundations in the medium term“.
For his part, the Madrid coach said he was “very happy“, and explained that it was coming “With great enthusiasm and much desire” to Vitoria-Gasteiz, motivated by the offered project. “As soon as they told me about the project they wanted, I loved it. We will do our best to build something, a way of playing and behaving that everyone can feel proud of.. I am very demanding and I will be demanding with everyone, we have to get involved to recover the illusion”.
An arrival that brings back memories for García Plaza, since he made his debut in Mendizorrotza as a coach in an Alavés-Elche match, a game that he keeps in his memory and that made him discover the atmosphere of the Vitorian stadium. “The atmosphere is amazing and has to be a mainstay. I come wanting to spend time and grow, we have to start working on it from today“.
Regarding the requirement of having to return to the First Division as soon as possible, he wanted to make it clear that it is not such a simple objective. The new coach knows the category well, and assured that there are still many steps to be taken before thinking of moving up. “You have to build a squad, get to know the people and the workers… you have to be among the best, but we have a lot of competition. This year they will go to eighty-something points and they may not rise. We have to give an entity to the team, that’s what matters the most”. In that sense, the man from Madrid assured that “it is much easier to stay (in First) than to ascend (in Second)“, and that he prefers to talk about that possibility when there are few weeks of competition left.
Asked about the squad he would like to have for the campaign, García Plaza spoke of a “competitive and go for the games from the beginning“, in addition to committed and ambitious footballers. The Alavés coach assured that he will speak with all the players with a contract to see what they transmit to him, and as a result of that they will look for a player profile. “There are valid players here, to spare, and there are places that we have to strengthen. What matters most to me is that those who stay tell me that they want to stay here. We have a clear idea of the game, but we have to be an adaptable team. I am a chameleon and I adapt.”
asked by Martin Aguirregabiria and Victor Laguardiatwo emblems of the club that end their contracts this summer, García replied that, despite the fact that they are two players who have been watchwords, “It’s not a matter of talking about any names“.
