I believe in the specificity of training. I believe in the strengths of the player, to have a weapon with which I make a difference. I think that working from weaknesses improves strengths and it gives you inner strength in the motivational field.
I like to choose players for their offensive characteristics over their defensive characteristics, if the basics are known according to the player’s position.
I like to dominate the game with the element (the ball). I like possession, submission, verticality, playing in the opponent's field, order and balance. Aggressive players who think about their opponent, great dedication, hunger for glory, football first and that the passion the love for this game come out through their pores.
I believe in pressure and the act of pressure in teachable moments, in which we must teach to steal the ball individually and collectively by forcing the error and provoking it.
I believe in possession as a weapon and I think it has to be achieved in the developmental part of the game with the result being the finishing pass (pass for a goal). Sometimes you win the possession phase of the game but not in the spaces where the best players roam. It is established very early on in the field and you have to raise the bar with players who understand the exercises given. I think wingbacks give a different dimension to the attacking portion of the game with possibilities that grow through associations, triangulations and a variety of movements. The coach then grows with this group finding strengths of attack by coexisting near the opponent's goal. If we form positional defensive chaos in the opponent, we avoid offensive-defensive transition from the team we face.
I believe in-group intelligence and in organized team coordination based on the unity of the understanding of attitude and action. Each player then synchronizes their actions according to game situations and is aware of the actions of their teammates so that each behavior has an intention, a rhythm and a time of execution, as such can be stimulated or applied to each training.
I believe in resources and concepts as well as in tactics. None is more important than the other is; I believe that training plans can be made that stimulate the 3 aspects being that resources are the most important at an early age.
I believe in system and form and I believe in game strategy as a growing aspect and constant search.
I think that coaches are facilitators who have to provide tools for the player to reach the maximum of their potential in the technical, tactical, physical, emotional, mental and lifestyle aspects. These 6 dimensions have to be inserted in the daily planning with understanding that every time I go out to the field to train the players they have to absorb some of these 6 developmental aspects of a player.
I believe in automatism and mechanization as an aid to individual talent and not to limit the decision-making that comes spontaneously and naturally from the soccer player, on the contrary, it is to give support, options and tools to the phases of soccer.
I think soccer is a game and as such, you have to know how to play it, understand it and interpret it as it has different phases and faces during the 90 minutes. You have to read it, interpret it, execute it and anticipate it during changes.
The act of execution in the game has the tools to plan the exercises and concepts that have to be removed from the game by focusing solely on nothing more than the game. We have more offensive tools than defensive tools. I believe that the request for player's to be concentrated is teachable through approaches (E1-E2-E3-E4)
I believe in many hours of practice at an early age, in meticulous planning, detail and continuous nourishment for the passion and love for sport.
I think that angles, passes, duels and anticipations have to be in the daily planning since they are the four actions that the game demands the most of and they are learned in a high percentage thru teaching.
We have to accustom the youth to live with oxygen debt because of this demand in competition, to think, to create competitive winning minds, to live in the constant sacrifice of lacking oxygen and to remain intact in the intellectual and emotional which is very trainable.
I think that when you are with the youth (even if they are professionals) you have to make them an individual plan for their improvement, work on the detail, prepare a plan according to their debut day as a professional and be as ready as possible. I believe in the versatile player without losing the specifics of each position. The plan has to be directed towards the future and if we think that the plan is going to debut in 3 years, the question that the plan prepares for is; Where will soccer evolve in 3 years? What extras should be added to the plan?
I believe that you can teach the habit of persistence and determination in every day training. Nothing in the world of soccer can replace these two virtues; as talent cannot succeed alone since it is common to see talented players in neighborhood games.
Geniuses? The geniuses have already been discovered and the undiscovered geniuses is a myth. Education……the world is full of educated players.
PERSISTENCE AND DETERMINATION TOGETHER ARE OMNIPOTENTS. The journey from being a good player to an excellent player is the most difficult and this path has to be established by the environment set by the coach.