“Nico Williams is calm, also Athletic”

The name of Nico Williams appeared in the press conference offered today in Lezama by Ernesto Valverde on the occasion of the open league match between Athletic and Almería in San Mamés. The ‘rojiblanco’ coach, as usual, has been sober for a few moments of some euphoria around the Navarrese winger after his brilliant appearance with Spain against Portugal. Step by step.

“We are happy with the internationals, the ones who went this time, because they achieved the goals: Iñaki who made his debut with Ghana and Unai Simón and Nico who qualified. In that sense, they should be congratulated and congratulated we have them,” Valverde said.

The Athletic coach, focusing on the little Williams, clarified that “Nico is a young player and everyone is eager for young players who stand out. He came out of a disturbance in the two matches in Spain, is participated in it and is making a good start to the campaign. He is calm, so are we”.

Valverde influenced his idea that “the thing in this football is that we already know how it goes. Many times with young players when they appear, the balloon has grown a lot because of the potential that they should have, but know we know that this is a long. -distance race where You have to be calm. Nico is a player who has just started in the First Division, in the elite, he still has a long way to go. We hope that this journey will take many year in Athletic”.

The ‘rojiblanco’ coach stressed that his young student “still needs to improve and learn things and he will do that because he is a kid who is fine, that’s good. We are helping him like we helped Unai Simñon, Iñaki etc. to make them feel comfortable here and continue to develop.

Valverde wants to avoid overconfidence before tomorrow’s match against Almería who, according to him, “suffered from the loss of Sadiq, but where there are football players who will play, who always propose and try to play and be able surprise you and don’t usually get caught. .”