In the midst of the River crisis, the president spoke of Demichelis

2023-09-06 02:11:32

The coach of River Plate, Martin Demichelisstarted the second part of the year without finding the team, using 21 players, without repeating an initial formation or supporting some footballers, which generated discomfort and concern in the squad, in the coaching staff and in the leadership.

After losing against Vélez in River’s worst game of the year, again with questionable changes, the DT’s relationship with several leaders of the squad suffered and there is a rarefied climate in the locker room of the last champion of the local tournament.

In fact, in the last few hours it emerged that there were meetings as a result of rumors linked to relations within the group with the coaching staff and due to leaks of information about private opinions.

In this sense, the president of the club, Jorge Brito, came out this Tuesday to support DT in statements to ESPN at the annual dinner of the “River Foundation”.

“I see Martín very well, he is a coach with a lot of projection. He is a great leader within the coaching staff, among the players. He has a great bond with us leaders. It is a process that everyone saw with great difficulty, that is also how we saw it, in the post Gallardo, perhaps the most important coach in the history of River, eight and a half years winning practically everything… He is making his way, with a different style. The worst thing in life is when one tries to be someone else. He is a real person, he has his own style. We are happy and confident, not only for what we won, but for everything that is to come,” said the president of River.

Then, he added that they are “all united.”

“We have a great human group, a great coaching staff, great players. This has happened to us many times, it happened to us in 2017 after the defeat against Lanús that took us a few months to recover. Perhaps there we could find that famous match with Boca in Mendoza that was a turning point to start rebuilding. And it was I would say the best year in the history of River, that we ended with the Cup in Madrid. We are very confident in this squad, in this coaching staff, we are all very united and I am convinced that we are going to fight in this championship as well”, he concluded.