2023-12-11 18:21:49
The Argentine coach of To the United, Marcelo Gallardorevealed details regarding his River exit one day before his team’s debut in the preliminary elimination phase of the Club World Cup once morest him Auckland City at the King Abdullah Sport City Stadium in Saudi Arabia.
The 47-year-old technical director is 24 hours away from starting his third experience in the intercontinental competitionthe first outside of River with which he reached the final in 2015 and was third in 2018.
«I just arrived and I have an important competition As it is the Club World Cup, they are also competing in the Asian Champions and the local League. All of these immediate objectives are related to development,” said the DT.
Regarding the Millionaire, the coach explained the reason for his departure from the club in 2022: “Mainly, it gave me health. When you are embarked on a day-to-day life and in the routine of permanent demands, you don’t realize it, but it takes you along. When we stop and look in the mirror we say: ‘What happened here? What happened to us in this face?’”
“As we are in the routine, we do not stop to think What happens to us internally. Now I feel good, happy. I enjoyed the normal things in life and got out of my routine of permanent demands. I also discovered that there are times when you have to know how to stop to be able to go out and think,” added the native of Merlo.
Continuing with his departure from River, the former Argentine National Team player expressed: «I’m not saying that I didn’t miss the routine, but I was very convinced of what I wanted to do. You can’t let go of what you did for so many years overnight. And I was experiencing an internal process because I knew I had to do it. Sometimes you give yourself deadlines and that was a mistake because I didn’t have to give myself deadlines, I had to feel things, see how they were presenting themselves and where I was at. In my case, following eight or so years in River, taking up a lot of time in my life, I decided to leave and, when I understood that I didn’t have to give myself deadlines, I began to feel lighter and with the desire to be prepared for whatever might arise.
Furthermore, Marcelo Gallardo told how he arrived at Al Ittihad: «When the offer came it was like this. He arrived, we discussed it, It was a time when I was feeling good and I wanted to find out what it was all regarding.because it was something totally out of the expectations of many. “I felt like it was a time to move forward and discover something.”
«It was an experience to know a little regarding what it was regarding this boom of wanting to boost this league. It was an experience that helped me begin to understand and get to know the place a little bit. Even though it was at the beginning of the year, I wasn’t planning on coming. Sometimes things happen and “One has to be prepared to make decisions.” added the Doll, referring to the game in which he led the all-star team of Riyadh Season in a friendly once morest Paris Saint Germain at the beginning of the year.
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