Solari, 11 years ago – Felipe Morales

#Santiago #Solari thinks what he says. #He doesn’t say everything he thinks. #For this reason, he has stood out as a writer. #Because he reads a lot. #Not that that makes him a better coach, but it did make him a better footballer, because from the anticipation and understanding of the contexts, the more you know, the better it is resolved.

#Eleven years ago, at #José #Antonio #García’s house, I did an interview with him that drew concepts in that spectrum of reflection, so far removed from the average footballer, who works to play or who understands soccer as a hobby with the goals of premature millionaires.

#For this reason, from his condition of intellectual of the ball, both in those times in which he was dressed in the #Atlante shirt, #Santi did not prioritize the economic. #That time, he was able to win three more times in #Dubai, #Turkey or #Portugal. #This time, he also adjusted to the budget of #America and what his predecessor of the azulcrema bench, #Miguel #Herrera, perceived. #Rich thing.

“The economic always has its fair value. I’ve been lucky to always make my choices not on the basis of money. I do not remember that I have moved from one place to another for the economic thing, ”he said when he was 32 years old, in that garden of #Pedregal.

#Since that distant #July 22, 2009, he asked that he not be called ‘#Indiecito’. “#We could remove it,” he warned, uncomfortable. Then, he spun fine when he shared his visions, which he already implemented when he was coach of #Real #Madrid, with a 70% effectiveness.

“I don’t know how success is achieved with a conglomeration of names; besides, you have to win titles ”. #That’s why #Solari left #Madrid. #Because that average in a points competition is insufficient, although it is accessible in a tournament in which 12 qualify, like the #Mexican one, for example. #Although there is a rush of judgment before his unexpected arrival.

#Las Águilas, accustomed to spotlights and brilliant footballers, today live the weakness of the change of generation. #In a game of men and not of names, #Santiago reflected in those days like this, in the face of excess talent. #Or scarcity, like the one you will find in #Coapa.

“I am convinced that the individual comes from the collective. There is no way you can do well on that plane if the team does poorly. #Also, what a sad way for you to do well! They are connected ”.

#What if. #América has been an exercise for solos and not for choirs, which lately resolved from individual improvisation and not from the global alignment of resources.

#With that calm with which he serves a tea and shakes the bag, #Solari already diagrams what he wanted on the bench, even as a footballer.

#In this way, he finds certain demands natural, which he has encountered in his career as a player and as a coach. #And that it will also capote it in #Coapa, where there are not many references. “Being a leader is one of those things that you don’t propose. They are not the result of a previous reflection ”.

#Relative of #Fernando #Redondo, married to his first cousin, #Solari always understood two-touch soccer, as an equalizer, as a valve. #Just like #Fernando. #Those nuances traced in #Madrid want to be landed in #Mexico, where he has already lived as a child and as an adult.

“I have many memories. I lived in #Guadalajara and #Toluca, then in #Celaya, I have gone to school here, that is, I am immersed in this culture ”.

“I am a normal, calm guy. I like music, cinema and reading ”. #And since eleven years ago, it was known that that does not make you a better coach. #But it does bring you closer to being, like now.

Then the ball bounces anywhere. #But when that happens, #Solari will find him a reason …