Santiago Solari will have everything to succeed with America, said José Antonio García, who a few years ago hired him as a footballer for Atlante
This Tuesday, Santiago Solari was announced as the coach of America, the Argentine will have his first experience as a strategist in Mexico, although he already had a step as a player with Atlante from 2009 to 2010.
The main architect who Solar came with the azulgrana was its ex- owner Jose Antonio Garci’a who spoke exclusively for ESPN of the Solari pass with the “Iron Foals”.
“I went to a game in Argentina and saw him play, I immediately realized that he still had a lot of class, that he wasted a lot of talent and I immediately thought of taking him to Atlante, through Federico Vilar and I was able to have an interview with him to go to dinner and suddenly I let go of the proposal to come to Atlante, we were living a few more days in which we closed the deal, I realized that he is a guy very polite, who even writes very well, at one time he wrote articles for the newspaper the countryIn Spain, I logically convinced him to come to Atlante for the part of living in Cancun and the paradise that this city represents, but in the end I think he gave his contribution to the team. “
Garcia acknowledged that Solar helped put Atlante on the international map and believes that America will gain a lot of prestige with the arrival of the Real Madrid coach.
“Solari is a bet from someone who has a lot of experience and who has a name at an international level, this means that in football worldwide everyone is talking about America, today in South America and Spain everyone already knows that Santiago Solari has taken over the reins of Club America and this is also important, for me it is always important to change and refresh things, these situations that occur when you are not afraid to succeed, it is important to give it a chance to new values and not being thinking about criticism or adverse results, I think it is a very good put that is making Santiago baths.
The former Atlante manager applauds that America refresh the fight of Mexican football coaches and believes that Solari will have no problem adapting and succeeding with the Eagles.
“That you don’t know Mexican football is nonsense, in the end there will be people who will help you give it some data and update it, but football is the same everywhere, it is played 11 against 11, with a round ball, with a good track, in Mexico we have very good facilities so there is no reason not to do a good job, what I applaud is the risk of doing different things and at the same time trying to do things right in search of success. “
“Solari knows Mexican football because he is a football scholar and of course he is aware of what is happening, it must be made clear that football is universal for example you realize that there are coaches who do not speak Chinese and are training in China, or technicians who are in Qatar or England and do not speak their native language, if there will be some knowledge issues that if you are approached by an experienced assistant will help you make the adaptation faster, but I have no I doubt that being attached to Santiago Banys and working hand in hand in training, in the squads and in the analysis of rivals will help him a lot, “said Toño García in a talk for ESPN.
finally Toño García stressed that America he will have to adapt to a very different style of coaching that they had with Miguel Herrera on and off the pitch.
“Miguel Herrera he left the club very high, he is listed as the most winning coach of the club, it is true that his temperament was sometimes criticized but this temperament made him reach the national team, he made him be in a World Cup, he could transmit and spread this passion that he has, today they are indeed giving a radical change because Santiago Solari at the beginning looks like an Italian catwalk model, always dressed very well and now he will have to transmit his knowledge to his leaders, it is something to what you live in school because when the teacher shows you that he knows and you are interested in the class you start studying, for me the basic rules are to have an excellent dressing room, that the technician is always front to win the respect and trust of their leaders. “
“I can tell you that with Santiago Solari it’s like listening to Jorge Valdano or Ángel Cappa talk, but I think Santiago has more experience and is more up to date, he has a touch of philosophy and I think he will apply all this within the dressing room apart from the tactics and the work of the court, I think that here Santiago Banys will be a very important part with him, because he is a guy who was a player and is now the sports president, he must know how to combine and have a lot communication with him and I think they will do it in a good way and I feel that there will be a good dumbbell between management and coaching staff “, finished José Antonio García for ESPN.