Rafa Alkorta, former player of Athletic and Real Madrid and former sports director of the rojiblanco club himself, has been very critical today in his opinions about some situations that currently affect the activity in Lezama. The former international defender, who shared discussions on the ‘Onda Vasca’ microphone with Gorka Iraizoz and Sergio Corino, among others, did not mess up on this occasion.
“You, when you work with Lezama, first, from the beginning, you need from Athletic because all these improvements in finding the best players based on technology, nutrition and so on must be there; but there is one pa. part, which “This is what Mendilibar says, and you must smell it. That is very important and someone who has played in the Athletic youth team, not just in the first team, will surely smell it better than an outsider,” said Alkorta. .
The former athletic director of Athletic added that “not all former players are valid in Lezama, but, with all due respect, you cannot destroy the deserving ones. To me that seems disrespectful. And besides , it seems to me that the current president, Mr. Uriarte, has surrounded himself with a certain wonder and some mediocrity which is why Lezama is trying to break away from the family ties that have always existed.”
Alkorta was hurt even more by the way the red and white club treated Andoni Lakabeg. Those responsible for Lezama stopped counting on the former Athletic’s services last summer. The decision adopted by the representatives of the bilbao quarry did not go well with the veterans of the red-and-white club due to various circumstances that go beyond the pure field of sports.
“When I found out that Andoni Lakabeg was being fired, I shed tears. A man who played for Athletic, who was a coach, who gave his life, who had many problems in his life, that we have given him a hand as it could not be otherwise… You put him in Lezama and they let him out saying that there is I don’t know what report that says they don’t agree. They are rude. That’s what they are, some scoundles,” said Alkorta, who did not want to go into detail about his brother Óscar not continuing as coach. “It is more difficult for me to talk about my brother. We have to evolve, but there is something that when he is gone… This team, Athletic, is very special.”
Source: La Verdad
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