Many are called, few are chosen

As every year at this time, Zubieta -and this year Anoeta- is the scene of the casting carried out by the technicians of the club with a series of footballers who apply as candidates to prepare their services in first team, but who, at this moment. , they don’t go as far as simple merit.

They are footballers who stand out in the lower teams, especially in Sanse and have even had opportunities, to a greater or lesser extent as the case may be, in the first team but have yet to define their role within of the squad of imanolif they finally include it.

It is important that a good part of the applicants this year has already appeared in the first citations of imanol last season. This is the case of Karrikaburu, with minutes in the early days, but who can be transferred. THOUGH ander martinrecently parted ways with the club. Urko González de Zárate and Olasagasti They are common in the calls and in La Rioja Pablo Marin It will come out later, but with quality minutes. He will also have occasional opportunities magunazelaiaand in a more testimonial way Arambarri and Jonathan Gomez. Except in the case of ander martin, who left for Burgos, the others were still on the starting grid, fighting to get the attention of the technicians and get a place in their plans. The fact is that there are not too many free spaces in the squad today, the midfield is the only line that has enabled some spaces, with the removal of illarramendi and Guevara. Out there, footballers with a similar profile will find accommodation, while attackers and defenders have more raw material. That is why, in the beginning, we bet on football players Pablo Marín, Olasagasti or Urko as the most accredited candidates to get their particular “wild card”, although their eyes are always fixed on the movements that can happen in a market that, as they rightly call How are youis “a living being” and usually has few movements predictable.

Marín is not Silva, now

Find someone who can make you forget David Silva When the magician from the Canary Islands decided to hang up his boots, it was not an easy task, even going to the market to find something similar. At the club they do not rule out the possibility of covering this event with a contract abroad, but it is not easy either, if what is sought is immediate performance. That, in that position, is expensive, very expensive, and few, very poor.

But it cannot be denied that, if we expect ourselves to be patient, we can find at home, in the factory of Zubieta, anything very heavy.

For some time now, Real’s technicians have closely monitored the evolution of the man from La Rioja Pablo Marina boy of about twenty years of age, and whose responsibility did not seem heavy to him when he had to jump into the field.

Technical quality he appreciates in remarkable quantities, he has a lot of self-confidence, and he has time to get the rest over time. So many people have knocked at the door of the first team with a more or less pretentious air, and stayed by the wayside, that it is a little scary to expect anything, but it is true that, in this case, the indications are encouraging them to take a little risk. in time.

Neither will Andoni

The news of the transfer of Andoni Zubiaurre in Eldense it becomes, somehow, and no one bothers, the story of a new disappointment. The club has been looking for that self-made goalkeeper figure for years, but the years keep passing, the footballers keep passing, and finally an external professional should be in charge maintaining a realistic objective.

The time of definition

The fourth season of Natalia Arroyo who manages the Real women’s team, and she does it in the form of a great question mark. The last campaign, which should have been the confirmation of the expectations generated by the previous one, did not go beyond being a transition campaign. The question is where? It seems the time has come to define goals, once and for all.

DID YOU KNOW…?

– In the historical league table, after the 2022-23 season, Real Sociedad is in eighth place with 293 points.

-At the end of the next campaign, you may be close to reaching the seventh place, because Espanyol will not be able to defend the place after being relegated.

-Since the beginning of the current century, La Real has significantly improved its position, climbing from thirteenth place to the current eighth place.