Phearing his appearance, he could continue playing, but now Javier Mascherano He takes his first steps on the benches. He had some of the best as ‘teachers’: Bentez, Guardiola, Luis Enrique, Sabella… he Now he wants to leave his mark and who knows if we will ever see him in Spain. At the moment, he grows in the lower teams of the Argentine team. He continues to be, of course, very much for Guardiola and Messi. He went to San Francisco to watch the LaLiga Summer Tour and had a few minutes with MARCA.
QUESTION: What kind of football does coach Javier Mascherano like?
ANSWER. “I have been lucky to have very good coaches and many of them with a different way of seeing and thinking about football. What I have tried is to take from all the ideas that one shares and try to generate my own. It is clear that my My stage at Barcelona am has marked me a lot when it comes to leading a team, going in search of the match, looking at the rival goalkeeper. All of this one tries to convey. Right now I have to work in the youth teams in Argentina and that idea also goes hand in hand with what we want in youth teams.Trying to give freedom to the player, so that the player, as he is in the middle of his training stage, feels the peace of mind of being able to play and express himself in the best way to get his maximum potential”.
Q. That sounds like Guardiolismo.
R. “He gets very confused… I always say the same thing, Pep is the best coach many of us have had, but trying to copy him would be crazy. He is a coach who has influenced football in an extraordinary way, he has influenced many of his players. Clearly there are things that one tries to see and if possible I am not telling you to copy him but to assimilate him because he is a coach who in recent years continues to influence football with things that we see his teams do. But always adapting to the reality that one has. That is to say, the characteristics of the players one has. Perhaps what remains one of the most from that stage is that search that we always talked about, of prominence, of the rival goal, of To have control of the game. In my way of seeing football, I like that a team can have control of the game and if it is through possession and playing in a rival field, much better”.
Pep is the best coach many of us have ever had, but trying to copy him would be crazy.”
Q. How do you rate Xavi’s time at Barcelona?
R. “I think it has been very good. It came at a difficult time, it was a team that had been hit, which had to rebuild a bit after last season, when it had the opportunity to sign and start the season from scratch. season. The fact of having been able to win LaLiga is an impulse to continue building on that”.
Q. In six months, Messi and Guardiola ended many debates by winning the World Cup and the Champions League.
After the World Cup, Messi has already settled any debate, of the few that remained”
R. “They won separately, which was a bit what everyone was looking for. But in my opinion, it would not have changed too much if it did not happen. It makes me happy because they are two people who I admire and love very much, and who love them go well I think that deservedly, as they are doing, it is a joy”.
Q. Does Messi already have the recognition in Argentina that he always had in Barcelona?
R. “Without a doubt, I think he has come to have it not only in Argentina, but in the entire world. After what has happened with Argentina in the World Cup and what he has achieved during the World Cup, he has already settled any debate, of the few that remained. The reality is that now he is seen enjoying everything that happens to him widely”.
Q. What do you think of your decision to go to Miami?
R. “The decisions are always very personal. I am not the one who has to assess it, but it seems to me that, from what I see and from what he transmits in these few games and these days that he has been in Miami, he seems very happy not only enjoying football, but life and family and that is something that might have been difficult for him in another place”.
Messi looks very happy in Miami, not only enjoying football, but also life and family, and that is something that might have been difficult in another place.”
Q. You have one of the best phrases that have been said about Leo: That “how nice it would be to be him for five seconds” that he said in a documentary
“It was in the context of what was happening on the pitch. Especially speaking of having the ability to control the game. I have always said that the game normally controls us, the game tests us. In the case of Leo, he puts the game to the test. He controls everything that happens on the pitch and that’s why in my view, or from what I’ve seen, he’s the greatest player my eyes have ever seen.”
