Santiago Solari will have everything to succeed with America, as pointed out by José Antonio García, who hired him as a footballer for Atlante a few years ago.
This Tuesday, Santiago Solari was announced as the coach of America, the Argentinian will gain his first experience as a quarterback in Mexico, although he already had a step as a player at Atlante from 2009 to 2010.
Its main architect Solar came with the Catalans, it was its former owner José Antonio García who spoke exclusively ESPN from the Solari pass with the “Iron Colts”.
“I went to a game in Argentina and saw him play, I immediately realized that he still had a lot of class, that he was wasting a lot of talent and I immediately thought of bringing him to Atlante through Federico Vilar and his representative. I had an interview with him to go out for dinner and suddenly I offered him the proposal to come to the Atlante, we spent a few more days closing the deal, I realized he is a very polite man who at one point even wrote very well wrote articles for the newspaper The countryIn Spain, I logically convinced him to come to Atlante for the part of Cancun life and the paradise that city represents, but in the end I think he contributed to the team. “
Garcia recognized that Solar helped put Atlante on the international map and believes America will gain a lot of prestige with the arrival of the former Real Madrid manager.
“Solari is a bet from someone who has a lot of experience and a name at the international level, this means that in football worldwide everyone is talking about America, today in South America and in Spain everyone already knows that Santiago Solari has the reins. Taken over from Club América and that’s important too, for me it’s always important to change and refresh things, these situations that arise when you are not afraid of success is important to give the opportunity to new values and not to think about the criticism or the negative results, I think Santiago Baños is doing a very good performance.
The former manager of Atlante welcomes this America Freshen up the deck of Mexican football technicians and remember that Solari will have no problem adjusting and succeeding with the Eagles.
“That thing you don’t know Mexican football is stupid, at the end of the day you will have people to give you some information and update, but football is the same everywhere, you play 11 against 11, with a round. ball, With a good field in Mexico we have very good facilities so there is no reason why you shouldn’t do it right what I applaud is taking the risk of doing things differently and trying to do things right at the same time looking for the good luck.”
“ Solari knows Mexican football because he is a football student and logically knows what is happening.It should be made clear that football is universal.For example, you realize that there are technicians who do not speak and train Chinese in China, or technicians who be in Qatar or in England and don’t speak the native language, if there are any knowledge questions that if they bring you an experienced assistant he will help you make the adjustment faster but I have no doubt that I will be stuck with Santiago Baños and working by hand during training, in the intersquadrons and in the analysis of the rivals will help him a lot, ” said Toño García in an interview with ESPN.
And last but not least, Toño Garcia emphasized that America He has to adapt to a very different coaching style than the one they had with Miguel Herrera on and off the field.
“Miguel Herrera He set the bar very high, he is listed as the club’s most winning coach, it is true that his temperament was sometimes criticized, but that temperament made him reach the national team, he made him participate in a World Cup, he was able to convey and spread that passion He has, today they actually give a radical change, because Santiago Solari looks like an Italian catwalk model from the beginning, always dresses very well and now he will have to transfer his knowledge to his subjects, it is similar to what is experienced in school because when the The teacher shows you that you know the class you are studying and are interested, for me the ground rules to have an excellent dressing room are that the coach is always frontal, so that he gains the respect and trust of his managers.
“I can tell you that with Santiago Solari it’s like hearing Jorge Valdano or Ángel Cappa speak, but I believe Santiago is more experienced and up to date, he has a touch of a philosopher and I think he has all that in the dressing room to margin of the tactics and the work of the field, I believe that Santiago Baños will be a very important part with him there because he is a man who was a player and now is the sports president, he must know how to get together and communicate a lot with him and I think they will do it in a good way and I feel there will be a good halter between the board and the coaching staff, ”concluded José Antonio García for ESPN.