Marchelin was protagonist on Tuesday afternoon at Impulsa, Employability Conference of the University of Nebrija on its Madrid campus. The Athletic coach gave a talk that was very well received by the students, with whom he interacted on many occasions. “Surely there is a technical team that works harder than us, but there aren’t many,” said the Spaniard, leader of a technical group that since 2003 he shares with the physical trainer Ismael Fernández and who was joined in 2005 by the second coach Rubén Uría. Then came the children of Marcelino and Rubén, other analysts, the physical readaptor Alberto Torres and the psychologist José Carrascosa.
Athletic’s coach valued as fundamental in his work “self-demand and self-criticism” and highlighted what are the key values in their teams. “The first thing is to have ability, but also to cultivate three basic principles in human relations: sincerity, loyalty and fairness. Until proven otherwise, soccer is a collective sport of the sum of individualities, although it is not understandable for many soccer players”, commented. The Asturian coach added that “we do not accept training an unmotivated footballer; if it happens, with us it happens for a short time.”
The world of football is open to a continuous debate about the suitability of each styleeither. Marcelino stressed that “I don’t believe in DNA in football, there are many ways to play and you have to respect all of them. It would never occur to me to say that a team plays very poorly because it defends or plays very well because it has 70% of the ball. Real Madrid plays as well as Barca or Atlético de Madrid or Sevilla. They all have great arguments and weaknesses and they all deserve the same respect from me.”
The coach also fHe was questioned for his lack of experience in foreign leagues. The one from Careñes responded naturally. “At one point it was due to doubts and fears. On some occasions I earned more money, but perhaps I was not at the same sporting level, and on other occasions I was not a fool,” he argued.
