Ronald Araujo he was in the midst of his designation as the best defenseman in the League. The Uruguayan international center back, at the age of 24, has reached a level of development recognized by his rivals, to the point of being one of the main reasons why the FC Barcelona This may be the least thrashed team in regular tournament history. One of the keys to this is the very high self-demand that is imposed. In an interview with The Athleticthe player who comes from the Barça club boston river The Uruguayan for a figure that now seems ridiculous (five million euros) released what was his obsessive way to improve his benefits. “I watch a lot of videos. Before games, if I’m at home with a dunk or something like that, I start watching videos of the forwards that we’re going to face that weekend. I watch videos of the forwards, wingers, sometimes also if there are 10 or more players in the attack zone. I analyze a lot what foot they use, if they cut a lot, and I see how they play”, he explained.
The analysis of the rival mark is not only a priori, but also a posteriori. “I try to study each of these things and also after the games. I usually wait two or three days and look at them again: to see what I did well, what I done wrong and continues to grow,” he added.
The desire to improve through self-examination affects the ‘family balance’. “I watch a lot of football. At the weekend I watch eight games. On Saturday I leave training and I start watching games until midnight. Sometimes my wife gets angry because I’m in front of the TV all day . And if not, I look at the results. I see a lot, almost the whole League”, he said. His involvement was more. “I also really like to watch Uruguayan football. I watch everything and look for movements that I try to copy from some defenders,” he said.
Videos and field work. There he attributes much responsibility to the teachings of his technician, Xavi Hernandez. “We learned a lot from him. Xavi is the philosophy of Barça that has been lost in recent years: the need to divide, find the ‘third man’ and all the things that are always done. Now we are doing that. In all the training that what he does with us is that we use the ball. With him everything is very dynamic, he tries to implement the Barça style: it moves quickly with one or two touches. There are even many exercises where we play with one touch; you cannot control the ball, they will pass it to you and you have to play a pass immediately”, he related.
Although Vinicius Junior scored the winner in the last Cup match, Araujo happened to be, along with Kyle Walker from Manchester City, the best antidote to the Real Madrid winger’s electric game. The merit of the light blue international was to force Vinicius to leave his position, at center back, to move to the right lane. This willingness to adapt to the specific needs of the group is part of the methodological discourse that he cites as one of the keys to his growth.
Source: La Verdad
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