The Argentine Central of the Betis Valentín Gómez has valued the work of the Chilean coach Manuel Pellegrini In its rapid adaptation to European football for being a technician who “helps a lot” and is “well on the details, in what is day to day, both with the word and in preaching with the example.”
Valentín Gómez, 22, arrived last summer from the Vélez Sarsfield in his country with a contract until 2030, last Sunday he started before Osasuna (2-0) forming a couple with the Brazilian Natan de Souza and demonstrated a acclimatization in which he highlighted Pellegrini’s work, “a great coach and the results they have been obtaining from which it arrived from which it came from.”
The Buenos Aires defender extended his gratitude to the colleagues with whom he has been found and who have helped him “a lot to then be able to perform in the field” because “it is not easy to reach a new place and who receives you thus players like Isco, Bartra, Llorente, Gio (Lo Celso)”, the one that helped him the most.
Valentín Gómez, in statements to the media of the club, said that he has gone “from less to more” because in the first matches he “cost more adaptation and entering the rhythm of what LaLiga is: today I think I have been raising the level and training so that it is getting better and better,” he said.
He also showed his surprise to play in a stadium like La Cartuja against almost sixty thousand spectators, “a madness” that “surprised him a lot” because “in Argentina we always talk that the way football is lived there is not lived anywhere and I think here is very similar.”
He referred to concrete players like his Natan line partner, “a great player” from which he tries to “copy and learn from him”; And also Brazilian Antony Dos Santos, “with incredible quality” and “a speed, a play resolution that clearly marks that he is an ‘top’ player.
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About his idols, he did not hesitate, Lionel Messi, although in his plot he said that he likes “a lot” today Lisandro Martínez: “He is a player that I like, I think we have similar characteristics so to speak. I also like Piero emphasis, which is now in the Arsenal,” said Valentín Gómez, whose “maximum dream” is to be selected for the albiceleste.
“It would be the maximum dream, I think every player dreams of dressing the t -shirt of the selection.
