Lotina faced her challenge to the Vissel Kobe leader as "a gift"

The Spanish miguel angel lotina The opportunity to train is considered “a gift” Vissel Kobe and face the club’s challenges with courage, in relegation position in the first division (J1) of the Japanese league after a bad start to the season.

“It’s a challenge, because there are so many responsibilitybut at the same time it’s a gift ”, Lotina said on Friday in her first appearance when she was presented as the team’s new coach, where former Barcelona players are currently playing. Andres Iniesta, Sergi Samper and Bojan Krkicor the Japanese international Yuya Osako.

Lotina pointed out that although the current situation “is certainly not what fans or clubs expect”, she faced this project with courage, which led her to resign. break which it proposed to temporarily take and where it rejected other international proposals.

“As they asked me, I said yes. I didn’t hesitate for a second,” the coach said of the proposal Vissel made.

The Meñaca coach will have his first direct contact in the dressing room today, where he will send his perspective on reforms and strengthening that he thinks are needed to continue and which he does not want to detail.

“Despite qualified situationthe group is a good group, eager to work, thrive and very professional, ”the coach said of the“ very positive ”information that reached his ears about the mood in the locker room.

Lotina took Vissel’s reins after the Barcelona player Lluis Planaguma temporarily served as caretaker coach following the ouster of Atsuhiro Miura of Japan in March.

Vissel has received three losses and two draws in the five games played so far in the Japanese league, the J-League.

His first meeting as the new coach will take place on Sunday, where Vissel will face off osaka cherry treeseventh in the ranking and Lotina himself coached long ago, a “special” game on a sentimental level, but “very important” for his new club.

The technician admitted they had small margin before the game and he will focus his rules on these two days at the tactical level.

The team has a very strict schedule. After Sunday’s match, starting on the 16th Vissel will have six games in 15 days in the Asian Champions League, which will complicate training and leave “a lot of workload”.

“It will be like a preseason in the tactical aspect, logically not in the physical, because there is no time between games,” said Lotina, who will focus on the guidelines that focus on attack.

These meetings, along with the national league, left a very tight schedule and too many games, “which caused so much damage”, which contributes to the club’s situation, he believes.

“We will try to distribute the minutes to all the players available to avoid more serious injuries and also for everyone to feel that it is important and gradually get the philosophy of what we want” for the team, the coach said.

lotina has become five years coaching various teams in Japanfrom Cerezo and Shimizu S-Pulse in J1 to Tokyo Verdy in the second division (J2).

In this new phase, he will direct, among others, Iniesta, a player who “suffered in Spain as a rival” and for whom he feels admiration. “He has done a lot for Spanish football,” he said.

“Obviously we have to try to get the most out of him. It’s important that he’s very comfortable on the field, because he’s a different player,” he said of him at the appearance. “He was able to work people with very high levels, so that’s more of my responsibility, “he added.