Athletic, too much weather without brain
Many are the problems that the Athletic one of Madrid has dragged from your return to the First (period 2002-03). The defense has been submitted to a constant criticism by your absence of bluntness, your continuous bugs and your weakness in the air game, especially in moves to idle ball. Even seven trainers have occupied the stool rojiblanco (Aragonese, Apple tree, Bianchi …), without none managing to implant a definite game philosophy. Also, the team has always been to tow of big names: first was the ‘torresdependencia’ (since he was truly a child), then the shift came for Omen and Forlán.
But, on all the problems, there is one that keeps on getting worse the athletic evil: the absence of an organizer, of a thinking brain; a man who canalizes the current of the Manzanares. Some of them view Jury as the creator of game that the Athletic one needs, but the sanluqueño is not an organizer, but a mediapunta re-converted according to the diverse urgencies. Men passed for an Ibagaza, who gave something of good soccer; Jorge Larena, another passing invention; or Ever Banega, who scarcely enjoyed of minutes. All of them mediapuntas that never went so far as to play as such, but slightly more delayed of your natural position.
To the Athletic one they create too much danger because he resigns from the control of the game, to the possession of the ball; the only ways of implanting the respect between the rivals, who now visit the Caldron knowing which they are before an exclusive occasion to count. The mediocrity rojiblanca has a lot to do with the imbalances that your fundamental one has presented throughout these years. To defend, there joined Albertini, Of the Saints, Diego Rivas, Raúl Medina, ‘Duck‘ Soda, Costinha, Motta … between others; even, in the desperation, it returned Simeone (that finished like head office). This way up to the appearance of Ignacio Camacho and the arrival of ill-fated Assunçao.
To tackle the initiative men came like Emerson, Colsa, Maniche and Cléber Santana, conductive all of them more of the ball than of the game; and none showed your best version. Enclosed, proceeding from the Juventus, there joined the Uruguayan Rubén Olivera, another incomprehensible caprice of going and return. More static men as Gabi or Luccin were not the good directors, and the promising one arrived of ex-osasunista Raúl García only served to print some force on the midfield, in no case to put a baton in the middle of the disorder.
For this course there sounded Sneijder, Lafita, Stammerer or Pirlo; years back it was done by Diego, Mascherano, Lucas Leiva … and for the future, ilusionantes names as that of Fran Mérida. But the athletic follower is known cheated in all this matter, and does not find the moment to come to the Caldron to the presentation of a mediocentro of guarantees, which not only it avenges with the tag of forthcoming star, but he is a soccer player of the feet to the head (the second thing, without going further, ruined Maniche’s stay in Madrid); a man confirmed for a determinant position. Possibly, when it comes (if it is that it does it), beech to begin another search: that of the substitutes of Omen, Forlán or Simao; and, this way, there will remember the Athletic one that was to only one position of being big again, and will pull the history of the Cold sores to justify your wrong signings politics.
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