Very little happens. In fact, it almost never happens. Often times, the coach of any team is the variable that mutates first, the variable that is most interchangeable when a radical change is needed. bad dynamicwhen numbers don’t add up and urgency turns need into suffering. Vincent Parras He felt it in his own flesh. Like all his colleagues, he was abruptly dismissed for lack of results, but that was before he came to Deportivo.

At Alcoyano, Elche’s coach earned a well-deserved respect that allowed him to maintain his position beyond the traditions that govern modern football. If he was in another city, he should have already gone to the office to negotiate his deal. Not yet in Alcoy and now has a shareholder on the bench in the past who hasn’t shivered in the closing stages.

Juan Carlos Ramirez He knows that it is no longer a typical club, but a very special club that still retains the true stamp of centuries-old establishments that abound in the homeland of Basque businessmen.

Two consecutive promotions in the lowest hours of the series and a smooth persistence at the start of professional football are solid confirmations that will solidify their continuity in their own right. However, his achievements on the field add to what his personality has done for the team. stability and vitality a project that connects the courses that have been lived on the edge of a razor for a while.

9 LOST

►Deportivo’s addition this season is the same as a year ago. The difference is that he won 10 games after 27 days, three more wins than he’s ever won (7).

His way of understanding the trade helped Alcoyano to minimize the harmful effects of non-payment of payrolls. Parras knew how to soften the team to give the board time to come up with a solution. non-traumatic solutionmanaged to prevent financial difficulties from flooding into the locker room, so everyone continued to add, despite enormous difficulties.

His track record of success and his supportive attitude in the club’s tense financial situation confirms the board’s faith in the manager.

Something like this presupposes an invaluable, intangible, decisive value, so even Ramírez doesn’t dare to dismantle the “status quo” of an Alcoyano transcending football for the moment.

In fact, Parras has the same losses at this point as last season: he won nine, but three games less. It adds 7 and had reached 10 the previous year. His balance is clear, where he’s always been, being strong in El Collao costs him horror. They didn’t earn much at home Three months And that has to change because it’s an unusual, almost historical anomaly that refutes everything.

38 POINTS

►Alcoyano led the league at this point last year, they have six more than they have now, which is just two more than relegation. On match day 27, the previous course, the distance over the danger zone was five.

This Sunday is being visited by one of the teams still struggling to make it to the playoffs, a bad company, which is perhaps why the speech of the coach most identified with the essence of Deportivo in the last decade is so clear: roll up your sleeves and be fully with the team, know where we are and what is at stake. We have to be a united force and I’m talking about the team, not just the fans. The time has come for all players, playing or not, to put themselves at the service of the group.”

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Alcoyano is trying to mobilize its fans for the six remaining “finals” in El Collao until the end of the season, and the first measure is to give each season ticket holder two tickets for the game against SD on Sunday (12:00). Logrones. “Persistence comes from home games and we want the fans to be with the team again. Sunday is a tough day, it’s Father’s Day today and it’s played in the morning, at an unpopular hour in Alcoy so we’re going to try to get our fans into action,” he said. In the last third of the league, he met with club representatives to get support from the stands.

This is the hardest part of your job, adding a will when it’s given badly. He had succeeded without hesitation until now, it had always been him. locker room leader with their help captains. He still maintains these lines among the board of directors, who are very aware of the profile of a coach who can fit into such a special project, where for obvious reasons the sense of belonging outweighs the stamp of each one.

“We plan the staff by considering: permanence and that’s the goal we’re involved in. It would have worried me to see that we were not competitive, but the only difference, as seen again castaliaThe opponents have as many chances as we do, but they score a little bit and we don’t,” complains the coach with his team two points above the relegation places.