If my memory has not failed me, something that has been common in recent times, it was in the 1995-96 season when Sevilla, which had started the season with the Portuguese Toni Oliveira on the bench, later replaced by Juan Carlos Álvarez signed Víctor Escárrago to try to save the team from burning. The ill-fated and unforgettable Rosendo Cabezas was the technical secretary at that time. I remember asking him, given the difficulties the team had in passing midfield, why the Uruguayan didn’t design some basic movements that would allow a graceful exit from behind. “That’s it,” he replied. He qualified thirteenth. Sevilla on Sunday against Real Sociedad reminded me of that time. The losses have weakened the team a lot, true, but it lacks the most basic automatisms to get the ball from the defense in the face of rival pressure. That is training. Or it had to be done. One piece of evidence can serve as a mitigating factor for García Pimienta: there are very few players who control the ball well and even fewer who are reliable in passing. And there are almost no Jesús Navas suspects who combine both things. These are things to be hammered in the pastures and it is utopian to teach in adulthood. Without coordinated movements, without controlling the ball and raffling it, you end up like what the Sevilla group is today: one of the worst in the history of the club. As if that were not enough, the collective chaos is joined by individual neuroses. That of Marcao, always related to problems; that of the coach, changing sides to the only effective attacker, Lukébakio, or maintaining the bet on Juanlu who, already tested, promises more than he delivers in the midfield; that of Isaac, desperate to reach the goal; that of Gudelj, versatile and hard-working, but who is not understood wherever he is placed; that of Sambi, afraid like that Brazilian Dirceu of giving balls and receiving melons… I don’t know if this team, here and now, will do more than not fear relegation, but certainly not for Europe. A map in the locker room, if anything.
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