2023-12-15 19:32:52
The technical director Gustavo Costas became new coach Racing Club and, following signing his bond with the Avellaneda institution for one year, he assured that “he fulfilled one more dream” in his football career and conveyed peace of mind to the fans regarding the formation of the team for the next season by ensuring that “no “The campus will be dismantled a lot.”
“I am content and happy. Excited. One more dream came true for me. “I arrive with all the desire, all the strength and starting to work today,” said the DT, in dialogue with the press following the meeting he had with President Víctor Blanco at the Savoy hotel in the Buenos Aires neighborhood of Congreso, in the that his arrival was formalized.
Regarding the topics that were discussed in that meeting, Costas, 60, explained: “We were talking regarding the preseason, regarding the players who might leave. The campus will not be dismantled much. We continue with the same basis, we had already talked regarding it. Let’s see day by day. Today the most important thing is to start putting together the preseason, which is the fundamental thing and then see the players who might come and go.”
After confirming that he signed a “one-year contract”, he refused to give names regarding possible reinforcements and referred once more to the assembly of the squad for the 2024 season and the work that awaits him at the club: “What we saw regarding the squad, is We already said it in the first meeting. We have to find how the team works, see the players we have. Know well what the flaws were. Racing, out there, was very offensive, but had problems at the back. And that had nothing to do with whether the defenders were slow or anything else, but rather that the middle left the defense very unprotected.”
Regarding the manager, a position that Rubén Capria held until a few days ago, Costas acknowledged that the leadership told him that “they were looking for him” and asked: “I hope that people from the Racing kidney come, that they come to add.”
On the other hand, he confirmed that the start of the preseason will be on January 2, although he and his coaching staff have already been working since even a week before the signing.
When analyzing Racing in 2023 and asked what the team lacked to be a protagonist, he detailed: “There were players who fell at a key moment. The downturn that every player can have. There were injuries too. You lost Carbonero (Johan), Matías Rojas. You lost one on one out there. It is fundamental and that left him a little unprotected.”
This will be the third cycle of Costas at the head of Racing, who had already directed the “Academy” between 1999 and 2000 and then had another step in 2007. Regarding the differences between that Racing and the current one, he highlighted: “As a fan I am happy that Racing is like this. We have always fought for a different Racing and for it to be where it is today… It is totally different and I am proud to be here.”
To close, he addressed the Racing public: “I will give the message to you when the championship starts. They know how I feel regarding Racing, I don’t need to say a word or anything. What they expect is what I can give them from within.”
Costas’ last precedent was to work for almost a year with the Bolivian national team, following a successful career in South American football, where he was champion with Alianza Lima from Peru, Cerro Porteño from Paraguay, Barcelona from Ecuador and Independiente Santa Fe from Colombia. .
In Racing, in addition to his experiences as a coach, Costas also had two steps as a player. The first between 1981 and 1989 and the second between 1992 and 1996. In 1988 he became champion of the South American Super Cup, in what was his only title in the institution.
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