Roberto Martinez
speaker
680 appearances
8 recordings
3 series
first heard Apr 2016
last heard 7 Jul
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Obviously, when you work with these players, you realise how good they can be in a specific job.
Remember this group of players, we end up facing Manchester City at Wembley, which is not trying to look at the disadvantage on the pitch.
Wembley against the England champions at that time, Manchester City, and we beat them.
Just down to becoming... It's almost synchronising and using what you're good at as a player.
And then it goes down to that discipline and that that the togetherness as a team But I think there is the eternal debate there since I arrived in 95 I always heard you cannot get promoted from the lower leagues playing good football or you cannot Get 40 points in the Premier League playing good football.
That's not right The playing style doesn't guarantee you anything and it doesn't take you anything away is how good you are with the style.
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Now, how good you are in the style is you need the time, you need the support from the board and from the football club as a whole, but then you need the work with the players and the belief that the players can achieve that.
I think it comes from the experience that I had.
I remember I was a young player at 16, I signed...
my professional contract at Real Zaragoza and the education was with possession football and the idea that if you got the ball the opposition hasn't got it and you can defend with it and I was trying to learn that appreciation of a space.
yes yes a local area a real thinker someone that from from a young age always we had those discussions at home and we would never watch a game from a normal point of view or who scored the goal it would be why that person had a free chance where was the tactical advantage so that that's always been in my mind but obviously coming uh at the age of 21 to come into the other extreme is almost everything that has been told before it doesn't matter from now on the game is played in a different way and i think that
is where I was very fortunate to get that spectrum of the two extremes of how the game can be played.
And then, with your own experiences and your own likes, you can pick and choose and try to model it for what is needed on the pitch.
Huge impact.
I think it's one of those experiences that you learn in the game through how Johan Cruyff arriving to Barcelona almost puts his ideas across and starts something very, very drastic.
up to the point that the first six months were quite difficult.
And the turning point was a very small moment where everything clicks into place.
And that developed a way of playing and a philosophy that is still very visible today.
At that point, you are very curious and you're intrigued.
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