Transcript · Spanish → English
Tactics and Preparation in Soccer
So, remember when we were talking about details? Those are the details you asked me about yesterday at the press conference.
Those are the details where you cannot fail.
So, that's where you have to be alert to everything that could happen and everything that could occur.
But that's where... nothing. This is a constant construction.
It's a constant construction of situations, of moments.
If we hadn't gone through the United States, but not just gone through the United States.
If we hadn't learned from the defeat against the United States, maybe we wouldn't have been prepared for this match.
Well, I told him at the entrance, 'Kid, you can't hesitate here, okay?'
Because on the pitch, we are 11 against 11.
They're not going to throw away history, they're not going to throw away the stars, they're not going to throw away everything.
But they don't like discomfort.
They don't like it. When I see the first German hit the ground, that's when we're going to tell them, look, this is going to be tough.
So I want the Germans on the ground.
With all due respect, I say this mostly in the sense of not kicking them or anything like that,
but rather that we weren't going to let them play, that we were going to make it physical, that we were going to challenge them.
And I would have liked to have more possession of the ball to force them to drop back more.
But those are things we're lacking, and those are battles we have to fight.
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Original transcript (Spanish)
Entonces, ¿vieron cuando hablábamos de detalles? Esos son los detalles que me preguntaban ayer en la conferencia. Esos son los detalles de que no se puede fallar. Entonces, ahí es donde uno tiene que estar atento a todo lo que puede llegar a suceder y a todo lo que puede llegar a pasar. Pero ahí es donde nada. Es una construcción permanente esto. Es una construcción permanente de situaciones, de momentos.
Si no hubiésemos pasado por Estados Unidos, pero no pasado por Estados Unidos. Si no hubiésemos aprendido de la derrota de Estados Unidos, tal vez no hubiésemos estado preparados para este partido. Pues yo le dije en la entrada, muchacho, acá no se puede vacilar, ¿eh? Porque adentro de la cancha somos 11 contra 11. No van a tirar la historia, no van a tirar las estrellas, no van a tirar todo.
Pero a ellos no les gusta la incomodidad. A ellos no les gusta. Yo cuando veo al primer alemán al piso, ahí es donde vamos a decirle, miren que esto va a ser duro. Entonces yo quiero que los alemanes estén en el piso. Con todo respeto, lo digo más que nada por el hecho de decir no pegar patadas ni nada por el estilo, sino el hecho de decir que no lo íbamos a dejar jugar, que lo íbamos a friccionar, que lo íbamos a trabar.
Y sí me hubiese gustado más tener más posición de pelota para obligarlos a retroceder más. Pero son cosas que nos faltan y son batallas que tenemos que dar.
