I’m saying it very seriously, I’m saying it as I think, and I’m commenting with personal pleasure as someone who feels lucky. For entertainment, for language, for knowledge, for experience, for original reflections, sometimes even unique. In a meeting like today, let it be your turn to discuss ‘Clan’with Raul Varelainside ‘Daily’related to Radio Marcawith Javier Clemente, The legendary Javier Clemente and I say this with admiration; it’s so fun, original and you learn so much.
Clemente, of course, who was not asked about the issue for the first time, harshly criticized the participation of football players in the First League or the national team at the age of 16 and 17, and asked for all this to be postponed. because children are not yet physically trained for this challenge, such as clashing with adult men, playing three games a week, and therefore “the more games you play, the more likely you are to get injured.”
Stand if necessary
And Clemente, at the end of his conversation with all of us (we all definitely disagreed with him but loved listening to him and arguing with him), pointed out those in charge of the club’s medical services because they were allowing it. to be. . “They are the only ones who have to decide whether a 16-year-old can make that leap, face those challenges. “But of course they will never say whether they are in favor of what is being done now because they are not allowed to speak.” And of course he specifically referred to cases of recent injuries. Gavi, Ansu Fati And Laminated Yamal.
“They bring out kids who play a lot of football because you have to see them, people want to see them,” Clemente said. “Okay, let them see him for half an hour. I remember him When Raúl made his debut against Valdano at Real MadridI worked as a coach for a short time. Yes, yes, I made it to the First League at the age of 18, but I was a reserve player and did not make it to the national team. They gave birth to me because I saw Raúl on stage for the first time in two years. I told him that I already had enough workload while playing for Real Madrid, so I called him. He played in the under-21 team, but not because of his level, but because of his physical potential. “We were going to burn him and he played enough at Real Madrid, that’s what I say for the boys.”
“I remember when I was a coach they gave birth to me because it took me two years to make my debut for Raúl.”
The former Spanish coach continued: “Yamal is only 16 years old, he plays too much. He needs to play faster than he should in order to stand out.” “He has to put in more effort than most of his rivals and he crashed, I won’t even talk about it anymore. This happened to Ansu Fati. He collided with a 28-year-old man and blew his knee off. Legs, bones, ligaments, lungs.. “Everything requires preparation. This isn’t the right thing to do. It’s the same whether you’re 27 or 23 or 16. “The kids are good and well-educated, but they need to put in a lot less effort.”
Clemente regrets rushing the debut of a good, good kid (“I confess it is tempting to see them playing like themselves rather than putting them among the greats, but we must think of their future, their long career.”), two or three years later The possibility of losing that great football player disappears. “You will have time to admire us with your filigrees!”
The former manager fears many coaches and doctors don’t realize that the rhythm, speed, impact and pressure at which the game is played “has nothing to do with the football we played in the 70s”. IT! “And frankly, Now the good guys play many games. “If you play 150 games, of course, you are much more likely to get injured and do real damage than if you play 50 games.”
doctor’s word
And at the end of his presentation, in the last part of ‘La Tribu’, in the heat of conversation and ideas, Clemente put his finger on the sore spot: The role of doctors responsible for the control of young football players, He stated that the only people who could stop this delicate and dangerous situation were the kids from each club.
Clemente started his speech by saying, “I would like the doctors to speak, but they are employees of the club and they do not open their mouths.” “Maybe the day they’re allowed to have an opinion on this, they’ll say they did blood work from time to time, they looked at his heart, his kidney, his liver, his gallbladder, they’re great, they checked everything and, ‘They’re great.’
But what they don’t tell, or what is unknown whether they say it, is the rest of their training. “What they need to check and tell us is to analyze the difference in effort from playing a certain number of matches in the youth team (which takes them very well), to playing with the professionals, to the national team match, even to the Champions League final, as many people play. To the doctors That’s what you need to ask: “Hey doc, do you think we’re going to make enough guarantees with this kid?”
And the former Basque player, former coach and former coach concluded his presentation by pointing to the club doctors. “Medical services should be responsible for all this with such players, with very young children. We should not go so fast with these children, if they are 20 years old they will continue to have fantasies like now, but they will be more physically fit, more developed. Let’s not rush with them so much.”
Source: Informacion
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