Hugo Ibarra stood in front of the press on Wednesday after saying goodbye to the squad. Then, these days, his field assistants joined. First Leandro Gracián and then Roberto Pompei. Among other things, they tried to clean up the image of the coaching staff and aimed at the level of the players. But Tito in particular, did it with brutal honesty..
“It was a very good experience beyond what we would have expected to be extended by results. But when you work with professionalism and honesty you have to leave satisfied. I have this feeling of happiness to have returned to the club for the third time. And I am not angry, but rather bitter, because when the Copa Libertadores draw was made it was time to get the results back on track“, Pompei started in TyC Sports.
“I understand that the boys (from the Council) were in a difficult situation to support what was being said, It is very difficult when you receive shots from all sides. Sometimes you agree and sometimes you don’t, when people talk in a derogatory way about the technician and the job, because the three of us are very far from being Riquelme’s Taliban and comeasados. Every Boca game there are a lot of people involved who work, later on the pitch they can come out or not, they can give you the results. I agree that Boca did not play well and we could improveIt was what we were trying to do.”
Pompei, who had already been in the interim position in 2010 and returned to the club at the hands of Riquelme, understands that the strong criticism had more to do with the year-end elections than with the poor performance of the team since the last games of the last year. “There was a lot of pressure, everything that had been said. We know that it is a particular year in Boca, we also knew that many of the shots were not for us, they are looking for elevation. Given the local defeat and the discontent of the people, we understood that we had to look for a change of direction. I only have words of gratitude that allowed me to return to work in the club’s First Division and thank the players who gave me the chance to enter a small part of Boca’s history by winning two titles,” he explained.
Who puts together the team?
“The roasts and the meals, we played the senior and we stayed. Afterwards, we had a daily dialogue with the boys from the Council, we could talk about the team. If you are in a club, normally you sit down and talk with the common leaders, imagine with people who are from football and know how. The talks are from day to day. Later, if a coach in the world puts it on and goes out on the field, that player belongs to the coach anyway because you are the one who decides whether to put it on or not. Fantasies there are many. yes you you are obliged to talk to these leaders in quotes that are the Football Council. But with Román on a day-to-day basis we didn’t talk about soccer, he never told us he has to play Carlos. later, in these charls, in this consensus, if the coach is going to put one and then put another…”.