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Marcelo Bielsa “has a different way of seeing football”, with him “you work much harder” and “physically it kills you”, said <a href="https://www.archysport.com/2022/01/spains-supercup-in-the-desert-real-madrid-defeat-barcelona/" title="Spain's Supercup in the desert: Real Madrid defeat Barcelona”>Federico Valverde. In a long interview with France Football Published this Saturday, the Uruguayan praised the figure of the current light blue coach, along with other coaches he has had, and reviewed the personal evolution he has had during his career.
“With the [Bielsa]you work much more. Physically it kills you. And mentally, too, but, in the end, that responds to what he expects from the games,” he explained. “That will to push, to do everything intensely, that madness that exhausts you mentally but that compensates on the day of the match and that gives you pleasure,” he added. He summarized that “everything that comes out of Bielsa’s mouth is good to learn.”
Valverde also did not spare praise for the two coaches with whom he has been the most at Real Madrid, Zinedine Zidane and Carlo Ancelotti, and said that he does not see many differences between the two: “It is the same way of seeing football, of talking to us and to transmit the plans. The same demand too.” “They know each player they coach perfectly. In addition, they constantly emit good vibrations,” he explained.
At this moment of plenitude in his career, three Spanish Leagues, one Uruguayan, and two Champions Leagues, among other titles, Valverde commented that he would like to improve “in the way of attacking spaces”, but also “in tranquility, in clairvoyance” . “It is absolutely necessary that I maintain my intensity, my way of always wanting to give everything, in the Uruguayan way, but showing calm and mental clarity,” he stressed.
He also stated that he does not mind working on defense for Real Madrid’s forwards: “There are players who do not need to defend (…) Personally, I don’t mind running for our attackers, so that they can take advantage of it.” “It’s good that [los delanteros] They help us, from time to time, but it’s like with the defenders: nobody expects them to attack during the ninety minutes,” he indicated.
El Halcón recognized that he owes a lot to the learning he had with the trio of stars in the Real Madrid midfield that marked an era: Toni Kroos, Luka Modric and Casemiro: “Playing with them makes you mature a few years. “They have advised me a lot.” Regarding the German, he did not hesitate to say that “I would have given him a Ballon d’Or.” And, he highlighted, in addition to “his technical and tactical qualities”, his human quality.
For this reason, and now that he is one of the most veterans of the Madrid dressing room despite his youth, he says that he tries to play the role of mentor among young people, such as Arda Güler or Endrick: “I try to transmit to them what they have taught me when I “It was in its place.” For this season they are “the best team in the world”: “We have to maintain this hunger. We also have to take care of the first times. “Sometimes we enter the field too relaxed.”
Regarding the Ballon d’Or, which will be awarded in Paris on the 28th, he noted that he would be “very happy” if he finishes among the top fifteen, but that as he always seeks to “improve” he would like to be among the top ten next year, and so on. “You always have to aim high, year after year. If not, you stagnate and don’t grow,” he concluded.
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