Roberto Trashorras: “The first goal was to train the players and it was undoubtedly fulfilled”

Roberto Trashorras Gayoso (Rábade, 1981) closed the biennial in Lugo. A man from Lugo who shows his passion for football from the bench and in interviews, gesticulating and showing his vocation. He provided lucentism to the club

— Why doesn’t it continue?

—I am grateful and very happy that I spent two years in Lugo. Since I came, everyone has treated me very well, with great love, with great respect. They all helped me a lot by clearly telling me the first goal, which is to train the players, to promote the players, that the vast majority can progress in the category and that has been fulfilled without a doubt. Yes, it’s true that there are other, less important goals for me, namely qualifications. We did respect the first year, but the second year we did not with a descent. I have been trying to talk to the club for a long time, since the end of the season. We talked to Tina (Saqués) and then we waited for David (Peláez) to arrive. Yes, it is true that it took too long because we wanted to know as soon as possible because opportunities could and did arise. We waited perhaps too long for them to tell us because it was the most logical thing for us. They were the first to give me the opportunity to train and out of respect, before any other possibility, I wanted to listen to them. For my part, I think we waited too long because of the circumstances, because they didn’t answer us and because they didn’t tell us clearly whether they would continue or not. The other day, they sent us a solution that it would not continue and nothing more. I will not judge the decision, but maybe it was delayed in time because the door that could have been opened was closed to me.

— How did you feel as the first coach?

-Good good. That’s a big change. It helped me to progress, to learn because many problems, even if you were a player, you didn’t experience them from the outside. I have a lot of experience. In the first year I had some players with great predispositions and it was a very good year. The second year was more difficult, there were many problems outside the coaching staff. We tried to be competitive, and above all for the boys to progress and be ready for the first team. There were a lot of circumstances that were not in our favor and burdened us.

“What circumstances?”

— I will not mention all the circumstances that occurred, but it is evident that the fact that the first team had so few troops often led to the branch having very few troops. That’s right. We were counting on it. We also had the handicap of not being able to play young teams because it is a club like Lugo. We can only use four that have a token. We also had Leandro’s (Antonetti) meniscus surgery or Christian’s (Martínez) problem. Idrissa (Thiam), our most differential player, managed to play only eight or nine games. This does not mean that I am the most responsible person and that we also did a bad job. I don’t want that to be an excuse.

— How do you rate the response of the fans? The fans felt empathy because there were many people from Lugo and Galicia in the team.

-Yes Yes. We always had support, people encouraged us and people sympathized because they knew what difficulties we were facing. Most of the players came from the third league, they did not play in a higher category, except for Iago Novi and Parga (Iago). Few more. We squeezed the boys to the max.

-Which parties do you stay with? Even in defeats, they created many chances.

— Yes, I stay with many of them. People may not understand me, but I analyze the matches, I often listen to the people who watch us, the rival coaches, such as Marino de Luanco, Torrelavega, Valladolid, many teams and that comforts me. I explained it to the guys. We have seen matches in which we are superior to the opponent. People saw that we had seven or eight very clean chances. For me, the most important thing is that ten or eleven players made their debut for the first team, and four can be part of the first team.

— Did any youth particularly surprise you with its evolution? Maybe, for example, midfielder Hugo García Fernández.

— I knew minors perfectly. In the case of Hugo, from the first moment I told the club that he had to be with us because we doubted whether Dani Vidal would continue or not. In addition, Dani was a lot at the beginning with the first team. My idea of ​​the game is to play with a positional six, and Hugo was a guy who could do that for us. In addition, I knew him from Minor B. Due to a combination of circumstances, we could not register him until January. He is a boy who has taken a step forward on a physical level. He has improved a lot.

— And among the branch players?

— Perhaps I was forever surprised by his (Carlos) Torrado’s ability to progress. I knew he had some very good qualities, but when we arrived he was a very unstable boy on an emotional level. Much depended on the first games. If he had left his opponent in the first play, he would have had an incredible game. We made him much more complete and emotionally much stronger by making him watch videos, giving him confidence. We made him continue to do things right no matter what happened in the beginning. For that effect, he is in the first team.

— Three more players are going to the first team. What would you highlight about Castrín, Idrissa and Antonetti?

—Andrés (Castrín) is a boy I knew less. When he was in the A minors, he was with the affiliate many times. He has improved a lot, especially in decision-making. When I took him to the branch, he was a boy who abused diagonals, long passes too much. He goes to the cut, he goes to the crossroads, he is physically strong. He has improved a lot, a lot, a lot in his decision making with the ball. We saw a much more confident Andrés, a much calmer one who knows how to pick a free man. We saw videos with him, we talked to him. He has many tickets to be in the first team. Idrissa’s case surprised me for the better, I’m not just telling you on a sporting level, but also on a personal level. He is very noble and with great predispositions. And there is something that is differential, which is overflow. When Idrissa played with us, we were much closer to winning. He is the one who participated the least or the least with us, but he did not participate with the first team either. It is noticeable that he played very little. Verticality is given to you by Christian, Jorge (González Méndez) and Idrissa. Leandro is not going into space. I had very little Leandro. They spoke highly of him. He had many physical problems. He is also different, capable of being very dangerous in that area but needs to be in very good physical shape.

—Do you see Leandro Antonetti more as a winger or as a nine?

— I see it more like nine. It must be close to the end because that is his greatest virtue. Play outside and look for it within the area. He has a great shot, he has a very good ability to solve inside the penalty area both with one foot and with the other, as well as from above. He has a lot of room for improvement when he leaves the space, especially when he comes to receive. Many times it uses too many touches.

—Idrissa Thiam is right-handed, but works left-handed. Do you think it gives him an additional competitive advantage?

— Yes, but his ideal position is on the left. It works very well there. We also set it to nine. We also put Ces Cotos at nine when we signed him to be six. And look, Millán, who made his first-team debut as a winger and striker when we signed him as a defensive midfielder. It talks about all the problems and all the circumstances we were going through. In the case of Idrissa, as you say, he can go inside and outside, he has to choose better because he has to score a lot more goals. It gives the feeling that it has to finish better.

—How do you evaluate the situation around the goal with Julen Fernández and Brais Vázquez who often change ownership?

Yes, we had a lot of doubts. My way of playing is complicated for goalkeepers because the first one who has to start the game is the goalkeeper. If we came out playing, we had a lot of options to hurt the opponent. Julen was in the first team, then Brais. We were based on the performance and that both had their own possibilities. They played more or less the same. We always told them that we want them to play, but to the limit. There were situations, which you surely remember, Millán, when they might have abused that way of playing. I always told them: “When in doubt, play forward. I want you to play with my centre-back or my midfielder, but if he is alone, if the pressure is high, play long”.

— What was your relationship like with Carlos Pita when he was the sports director? They have a similar way of looking at the game.

– Yes, yes, we had less contact with Carlos because he was there for a short time, and he was more in the first team.

— And with Diego Sánchez Rodríguez, the manager of the quarry?

— Diego was the one who gave me the opportunity to train Juvenil B. I have only words of gratitude, he always did everything he could. He tried to mediate. He was always very close to us, he was very faithful to us. In these times, loyalty seems to me a very remarkable virtue and Diego had it.

— And with Wagner Molina, the first technical secretary, and later the sports director after Pita’s resignation?

“Very little contact. He came to some trainings. We could talk about the player, about something, but the contact was with Diego. It was a much more everyday contact, much closer. After each training session, we went to the office to work.

—Jesús Fernández and Dani Vidal were present in the first team and then disappeared. Jesús played eight games, all with Hernán Pérez. How was that management?

-Yes Yes. It’s hard to manage because guys are human. They come from the dynamics above. Many times you have to be very aware of them, you have to talk to them a lot. Because? Willy-nilly, I can get confused. If they are in the dynamics of the first team, even if they are not shown, they can think that they are already first team. Then it is difficult for them to assimilate going down to the branch. We are here to try to help you. They come with expectations that are not fulfilled or with promises that they can make, I don’t know, if it is possible they are given above and then they are not fulfilled. Then they do not arrive psychologically well. Jesús played eight games with the first team. I don’t know if they talked to him or not, but suddenly he came down to the branch. He fell in conditions where he was not well mentally. We talk to him. There were other colleagues who were better than him. He looked sad, he looked more bored. We are talking to him to try to get him back. At the January market, there was talk about whether he was leaving or staying. Dani’s case is somewhat the same. He did the pre-season as the best and it seemed that he would stay. With Hernán, he seemed to have a much better chance of staying. Fran (Justo) used it at some point. I explained to them what happened to me, that they must first give up. If they give up below, the door will open for them. This year, due to a combination of club circumstances, they went up without giving up and that was a handicap. To get into Barcelona’s first team, I had to score X goals, go to the Spanish team or leave the branch. He had to be the best because, if not, someone else would go up. Many times it was difficult. Sometimes they came out to play and were not clear headed to play in a competition like the Second Alliance.