homework done on the way back

In the month of August, before the start of the return season The youth of Teis from volleyball to national categoryyour new technician, Alberto Baomarked two goals: “The main thing is learn and then, the normal thing is to strive stability». Now, after a season with the team from Vigo in sixth place in the First League, he again influences the two concepts when it comes time to settle the accounts: «What we wanted was to learn and maintain. The valuation is good because it was achieved”, he says.

Although they strived for “the more, the better”, he assures that both for him and for the club, f-positionthe final was something secondary. “We knew that the competition would lead us to where we belong,” he says. With a team whose average age is 22, with members who started at the age of 16, the most important thing, according to him, was to “gather experience for the coming years and stabilize the club in the category”.

Most players have never played these instances before or only tangentially touched them. “When you come to this league, you notice a change in level. There are very experiencedwho have been playing for many years and have played even more,” he notes. That means you have to endure some more “abusein quotation marks” when he has to face new situations and the reaction “is not always the best”, he says.

With him, that jump was noticed already in the first round, to sign a season in which they clearly went from less to more. “We were looking for 2-3 games that we should have won, where we had a fifth set on the road. But nerves and lack of luggage They take a toll on you in these scenarios in the new category and you lose,” he analyzed. In any case, those duels were in the first half of the competition and could have taken them “a little more”, because they finished only one point behind fifth Rivas.

Values ​​experienced by players a level jump and they won first of all in security, “although without exaggeration, because they are still very young”, he specifies. he also perceived technical improvement, although he believes that this will be more pronounced in the long term. “It’s very engaged, with great desire. And when you have that, much of the work is done. Then you have to put everything into operation and it has to be turned off, but it’s easier with that – he says.

They started by beating a direct rival and that beginning made it seem as if things would be easier than they would be later. “At first we had toy crashes, something that didn’t happen to us at the end of the season. had gone pulse measurement category”, he celebrates. And in a league so evenly matched that the last one won two sets against the first two in head-to-head matches. “Anything can happen. Many parties were decided by details – he says. In their case, they lost and won the same number of duels: eleven.

Future

Bao does not take off his clothes Her future in front of Xuvenil de Teis. He would be delighted to continue, but understands it is a decision for the club, which is currently focused on the junior team and fighting for the Spanish championship as a sign of the good health of its youth system. “There are still a few months left and they will have to decide if they want to continue in same line or change. As for me, I am delighted, I have fulfilled the goal that was asked of me and I am calm – he says. In the meantime, he continues to lend a hand to the other teams still in the competition now that his has come to an end.

Coping with medium or long termkeep thinking about going back to super league 2 “are big words», considering the level of that competition and the investment it requires. He believes that they would need some more reinforcements for the fight, but he is in favor of going “step by step” and indicates that the very fact that they will play the promotion phase would already be a “reward” even if it had not been achieved.

congratulations to the fans

Bao is grateful that at his home matches there was always an audience in the stands and that they were pushed: “Our opponents congratulated us on our hubbyBoth those who won and those who lost.