Calero: “Celta is in the process of great growth and I don’t see a ceiling”

Sports coordinator Celtic, Juan Carlos Calerohe gave an extensive podcast interview architects league. In this conversation, a man from Luis Campos in Vigo he gives some keys work system which the club from Vigo started to develop a little more than a year ago, detailing its operation and evaluating various aspects of its development.

The bill that is today’s call external sports consultant they called him from the club where he worked Japan. He reveals that they cooperated indirectly and that there were previous attempts to do so directly. “I just renovated, but a person like Luis calls you for a project as important as working for Celta, well beautiful and ambitious, and I should have returned to my country”, he says. This meant “leaving my comfort zone” after four years to start “a project with very high ceiling»So much that you can’t see it, he says. “We are in a very big growth process. We have been here for a year and we are happy, happy that we made this good decision – he assesses.

Calero admits that they use “a new formula» in Spain, but not for Campos and his team. “What is required is to adapt our form and working group to the group that has already been created as Celta’s structure,” he presents. The main thing was to “combine the way of working with the characteristics and peculiarities of the club”. To do this, they dedicated three months «inquires what Celta is”, he details what was going on in Vigo, in the club, the city and the fans. He observes that a “special essence” is inhaled and that when you are inside “it is easy to be fertilized by people, which is the main value that Celta has, its professionals and fanswho live it feeling».

Campos, “waiting for Celta 24 hours”

After that essence was captured, it was time to «adapt philosophy and mode of operation. They found a developed structure within which they discovered where they could “improve and contribute to a a grain of sandnever in a forced way, but consensual». Merged departments and he has the impression that he got along better inside the club than outside it. “It’s still striking. There is an external advisor who is not permanently in Vigo, but lives 24 hours to Celta“, he emphasizes.

For those 24 hours, Campos was looking for “a person who represents him at Celta”, as Calero defines himself. “People wondered if someone like Campos would pay attention to what a professional club like this requires. And the whole world could check it from the inside. Now, with good team play, I think people are realized a good deed it was done from behind,” he says. Discover that you have daily direct connection with the Portuguese, with a meeting at the beginning of the day, another at the end and ten or twelve contacts between calls and messages.

He notes that the advisor comes regularly, meets every week with the coach, the club and the working group, and “lives the essence of Celta 24 hours a day”. Emphasize that you have a great trust in it, through which “everything related to the first team and part of the quarry” passes. “I’m not the one who makes big sports decisions, there is a commission for that, but I make the fastest decisions to solve problems. Although the goal to predict them,” he says. Through Campos, he has “a wide range of departments prepared at Celta’s service” to solve any problem that arises as quickly as possible.

“This club carries its quarry as its flag”

Calero announces that they work from the starting point «adjust experience or professionalism according to interests or goals club”. In this sense, he points out that they have found “a club that loves quarry, Total prochanter, wear it like a flag,” something he believes is demonstrated by the preparation of his templates. “We have to make sure it has a lot of value,” he adds. But he says they found “a problem high demand current football to adjust the budget, salary cap…”, which is why it is important to “build a good team that gives current performance, for the future and can give you an increase in salary cap in later years with possible sale».

At this point in the speech, he continues to explain pyramid system players that he exposed at the last shareholder meeting. There is a first pyramid of the first team and other branches, with different profiles. locate on ruben white in group A1 despite going out, same as Kevin Vazquez despite having a few minutes. “He is here all his life and is fundamental, a mirror for young players and an example on a sporting and personal level. It reinforces the club’s message and is of incredible value to us,” he says.

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– Rio Grada (@gradaderio) November 30, 2022

It is a system in which “Luís Campos always believed”. “He provided great value young diamond and there is this great young man and heto shine from to discover largely talents And be brave when you bet on them. We are lucky that at Celta they believe in that and that is appreciated”, he elaborates. That’s why “it was easy” to connect these two pyramids and I made “some”. restructuring player for reduce distances between academy and first team and that we are talking about a unique project, about Celta”.

“We expected this from Gabri, but not so soon”

Eye Gabriel Veiga, Calero claims they expected it to become what it is, “but not so soon.” He clearly states that it is “a product of the Celts”, that they did not discover it. “Those numbers and that capacity for improvement are not normal. Circumstances came together, Coudet and Carvalhal were brave, they knew how to put it in its place,” he says. Added to that were “their eager to learnimprove, your humility, which is not a word, but his innocent ambition. He is a boy extraordinary that he earned it on a daily basis”.

He cites the example that while he had a B record, he was still in the second team’s dressing room as those who move up tend to do even when he was already a starter in the First Division. And he reckons that some eight or ten colleagues, among them, Unai Núñez or Renato Tapia– They went to ask him to be with them or to ask why he wasn’t, and he never was and he was surprised by the change – before the file change -. “At Christmas dinner, for example, he sat with B. Because of his athletic characteristics and human level, how professional he is, it allowed him to maintain his growth and cool head. he never lost perspective», he boasts.

“It’s a luxury to have a coach like Carvalhal”

Celta’s sporting coordinator says they were “lucky” in that Carlos Carvalhal was available when circumstances led to termination Eduardo Coudet. “It’s amazing to have a coach like Carlos. He was known as Luis, a prepared, trained person, not only on a football level, but also on a human level. he helped us to discover with his team on a daily basis questions that may appear.”

Calero and Carvalhal have «daily meetings, formally or informally, in the office or at breakfast”, and in them they resolve all issues and agree on decisions. “We are happy that we speak the same language, we respect each other, we know the value that each of us has within the puzzle of the team structure,” he says. And save the words Carlos Mourinho“wise person where they are” if they had before a group, but not a teamand now they have both and that’s what made such a good stage come together after the parts didn’t fit at first.

He also appreciates that they found the team home professionals, “who come from below, from A Madro, and have the word afoutez tattooed on them”. They are the people who can detect a problem in the quarry that he does not see. The maximum exponent that exists Borja Oubina. “He is one of the great values ​​that Celta has, an example inside and out, hard-working, he sees football with incredible clarity and expresses it easily, he has a passionate way of understanding,” he describes. He considers himself the first to understand the merger and places great value on the fact that someone with so much weight in the entity saw it so clearly. It also praises the ability to Santi Castro, Mario Bermejo and Ratković as analysts.

He repeats several times how they managed to “make the pieces come together and there’s a spark that makes everything so fluid”. And for that to happen, people like Oubiña, Álex Andújar, Pedro Docampo or Nando Villa, as well as physiotherapists and doctors. “The puzzle came together and the spark appeared that allows us to get to where we are,” he elaborates. They exchange opinions to reach conclusions. As well as for the players, whom he claims are partners and friends, more than a position. “You sit at the foot of the field with them and even play a psychologist. With Iago (Aspas), it’s not that he likes football, but you have to shut him up, ask for a time out,” he jokes.

“Capacity, desire, ambition and feet on the ground”

Among the ideas he influences is the one that growth Celtic there are no limits. “It’s about a club celebrating a hundred years. I’ve only just arrived, but I don’t see a ceiling, honestly,” he says. He sees in the entity “a capacity for learning, desire, ambition and feet on the ground,” not losing sight of how bad things have been in its recent history. «he went down, suffered financially. which she gave them wealth, growth, value for its large. UA Madroi, which is the cradle of Celta, built small bricks and made the club continue to grow. It has a developed structure,” he says.

Within that structure, repeat that they are gone changing details who believe that it is good to promote that growth. And he reveals that one of the projects they want to present is a elite group with B1 players – young men from the quarry who are called to be top and who are in the orbit or dynamics of the first team-. “There is a period of adaptation or learning and the most difficult thing for them is to adapt, settle down and become part of professional football.”

It’s an idea reduce processes so those players who believe they can become important can achieve that, and remember it may not be at Vigo and loans are also designed for that purpose. “The players love it Alfon or Sergio Carreira They are important, but we think that they lack that adaptation process and it is better for them to go outside, feed themselves with other football, enrich themselves outside their comfort zone”, he analyzed.

Calero also makes it clear that the goal that drives them is “that the fans have more joy than disappointment, that the mass of society enjoys more than suffers.” In order to do this, he reiterates that he must put the puzzle together and give himself that “spark” that they have now achieved.