Yuri expanded his legend to return to Second with Ponferradina

The captain of SD Ponferradina, yuri desouzathat in any case the departure was first assessed, after the loss of the category and despite the fact that in August he will meet the 41 yearswill once again lead the Berciano team project looking for a quick return to Second division.

“Before the end of the season and when the situation is very difficult to achieve permanence, I made clear my intention to continue helping the team from within or from without,” insisted the veteran Brazilian striker in an interview with Efe.

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Due to previous occasions the negotiation for its continuation, the good relationship -also personal- with the president Jose Fernandez Nietopaved the way for the agreement to be immediate and announced as the first stone of the next sports project.

“I spoke with the president and he wanted me to renew because, like me, I still see myself in the team that is useful and that’s why I decided to extend the relationship for one year,” said of striker from Maceo.

type He emphasized that he “didn’t” really appreciate the withdrawal, because his closest environment also pushed him to continue being active and although he acknowledged that the “emotional breakdown due to the decline” doubted to him, he finally found “the strength to continue and try to find a new promotion”, which in his case was the fourth with Sporty in the silver category.

Despite the fact that his campaign, like the rest of the blue and white team, was inferior to the previous one – where the “play off” for promotion was touched- he is convinced that his contribution could be greater than the three. coaches on the bench, jose gomes, David Gallego and Juanfran Garcia.

“I can’t hide the fact that, without a doubt, I hope I play more, as it happens with any player, but I always accept what my role is at all times and the decision of each coach, but this is true. that I will not know if I have contributed more goals for the team -with 9 he is the top scorer-“, he said.

Among the keys to relegation, the captain recognized that, in general, the players “are not up to the task, although there are many factors that also force changes in the coach, which is always difficult because we have to adapt to each other’s style “.

What is clear to him is that he does not believe that the ambitious message at the start of the championship is wrong, where he said competing in the promotion phase as the goal “because if you think big it is easier to fulfill the dream and it does not mean losing humility inside “.

The entity is very critical in some arbitration decisions, mainly in video arbitration (VAR), which led to the release of two statements of complaint and which, according to the Brazilian striker, reflected “the feeling that existed inside the locker room and some rivals even recognized that it made sense”.

In any case, despite the fact that the team, especially in the second round, remained anchored in the relegation places, type he did not lose hope and believed that the main match for the purpose of being complicated was the tie in Burgos (2-2) “because the result and how it happened touched the emotions of the team,” he acknowledges.

back to the mud

The all-time top scorer of SD Ponferradinawho is likely to reach two hundred goals next season with the sports shirt, will return, after four seasons LaLigaSmartBankin First RFEFcategory in which it will debut, such as team.

“He needs a chip change, an adaptation because it’s a more demanding category than before Second Division Bbut it’s about keeping the same hallmarks as before, work, humility and competing hard,” he said.

Undoubtedly, he will be one of the main references for all the rivals and he knows that he will be “in the spotlight, but this should not divert what should be the main goal, which is nothing but to return Ponferradina to this place. he responds,” he insisted.

Regarding the keys to achieving what the team achieved last time, also with him as captain, in the 2018-19 season, he considered it important “to have unity in the dressing room, it is fifty percent of success, with a good dressing room and group of people, there is still a long way to go.”

The sports captain is convinced that the new project will be ambitious, despite the departure of important players even if they have a current contract “because logically they want to play in a higher category” and continues to leave the door open open to a future with a common message from other years: “When we’re done, we’ll sit down and see what’s best.”