“The project has to continue to grow in the short, medium, and long term. We don’t know when, but eventually there’s a lot of talent out there that we can do well to recover. I don’t know if there’s a possibility or not.”
This is how David Aznar expressed himself yesterday. The Athletic women’s coach knows that away from Lezama there are footballers, many of them with a red-and-white past, who will give consistency to the project of the Bilbao club. Project that, according to its new coach, “first wants to grow what we have here.”
The red and white coach, however, is clear that “the players who follow the Athletic philosophy outside of what Lezama is, will be welcome as long as they come to help, to strengthen the team. This year , an important step has been taken with the reinforcements that the squad has and this is whenever we have an opportunity in the market, to continue to strengthen the squad and feed what we have here. Ultimately, what I want is to have a team as competitive as possible and the club also aspires and wants to be a competitive team again.
Enjoy the win
Clara Pinedo emphasized this week in an interview with MD that one of the aspects she likes most about the new Athletic women’s technical staff is the idea of “enjoying winning.” Aznar himself explains what the basis of this technique is.
“There is no better medicine, in quotes, than winning. In the end, the addiction that winning gives you is to always want to win. That’s kind of the mentality that we want to instill in them, that they enjoy playing first because they come all of us here (in Lezama) because we want to, no one is forcing us to do it. And the second thing is that they learn to compete while having fun. It requires good competition. The League has risen a lot in level, all the games is worth a lot and we have to celebrate every victory as if it were a final and that will change our mentality.”
The red and white coach understands that “we are a team that plays football well, we have the talent to do it, but we also want to be a team that competes well. That’s the next step we’re trying to build. We are trying to show these girls who have just arrived in the Primera that it is great to play good football here, but you have to win games, you have to compete, you have to be a tough block, you have to really look at the teams. and do it is difficult for them. And that step is where we are.”
Youth and talent
Aznar admitted that he was very happy with his players. “We have a team with a lot of talent, talent that we must nurture by giving them confidence and making them grow. We have played two games in a row with an average of 23 years playing in this Primera and that is a reflection of everything that has been done and done for a long time here at Lezama. They see themselves in the First Division, very young and with a chance to show. I am very happy because I see them happy, I see them competing better every day and I am very optimistic about the future. “We have a very competitive squad.”
Source: La Verdad
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