Lillo on coaching City without Guardiola (full presser part two)
Lillo on coaching City without Guardiola
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00:00 Buenas Juanma, sabemos que Pep Guardiola es un entrenador que tiene ideas muy fuertes
00:09 sobre como se deberÃa jugar al fútbol.
00:11 ¿Nos puedes hablar de como es el ser su asistente, si está abierto a ideas o si es alguien a
00:16 quien es difÃcil de convencer?
00:19 "Hemos estado trabajando mano a mano durante muchos años. Él ha sido mi jugador desde
00:30 los primeros dÃas. Tenemos una relación que se va de la mano a la mano. Estamos en
00:37 la misma dirección, entendemos las cosas de la misma manera. Pep es muy abierto, momento
00:43 a momento, y siempre quiere mejorar y mejorar y implementar nuevas cosas. También hay un
00:48 aspecto muy importante, observar a los jugadores que tienes y su capacidad de hacerlo. Esto
00:56 es algo que ayuda a Pep a crecer, dependiendo de los jugadores que tiene disponibles, porque
01:02 nunca son los mismos. Es algo muy preciso, ese sentido en Pep. Es muy inteligente, no
01:10 solo comprende lo que va a hacer, sino con quien va a hacerlo. Y eso es lo que hace
01:15 Pep en el dÃa a dÃa. Y si siempre interacciones y intercambias ideas, esa idea común se
01:22 vuelve más robusta."
01:23 "That's really interesting. What you say is that Pep Guardiola continues to improve
01:33 as a coach. It's really exciting for Manchester City, but it's also quite overwhelming for
01:37 the opponents, right?"
01:38 "Indeed, that's the case."
01:39 "That helps to improve everyone that is around him. We all improve and we're all trying
01:52 to pitch in for Pep to always be there. Nevertheless, he doesn't need a lot of input because he's
02:00 constantly building and debating and generating ideas."
02:05 "Hi, Juanma. A couple of things. First of all, you are saying that Pep Guardiola wants
02:16 his players to improve, but he's always looking to improve himself, right?"
02:23 "Yes, yes."
02:24 "That is correct, that is correct. But when he was a player, it was the same."
02:28 "Yes, but he already had a true vision, a global vision of everything."
02:41 "Yes."
02:42 "Have you ever come across anybody with such determination and such a will to learn as
02:48 Pep? Because you've worked with so many clubs, so many people."
02:52 "It's very difficult to find someone such as him with such capacity and such willingness.
03:01 It's continuous willingness because it's year after year and I don't feel as though he's
03:07 lacking."
03:08 "To maintain that hunger, right? Because you've worked with hundreds of players and people
03:15 throughout your career."
03:17 "Yes, he was already a bit of a coach when he was a player."
03:20 "You talked about how well managed this team is. Could this team play almost like a self-pilot
03:31 of how well it's worked? Do you know what the public team has to do?"
03:38 "It's so well done that we also contemplate that we cannot mechanise things. We accept
03:47 that at the end of the day you have to adapt to circumstances, you cannot mechanise things."
03:51 "I'm not going to speak in Uzquera, I'm going to speak in English."
03:59 "This week there are going to be four players, four Guipuzkoa coaches in the Premier League,
04:08 including you. Can you tell us about the importance of having these coaches here and why?
04:15 Has the Basque Country produced these coaches and what influences have you had in the region
04:20 to get to where you are now?"
04:24 "I think this is more happenstance. To tell you the truth, the person who is here as my
04:34 assistant is also from Guipuzkoa, so that would be a fifth. But that's just a coincidence.
04:41 It could be from a different region. I don't want to highlight the region. I doubt there's
04:48 any cause effect behind that. It's just happenstance. It is what it is."
04:55 "Thank you."
04:56 "Hello Juanma. I want to ask you about Mateo Kovacic. He's a player that's been played
05:04 in the league. The money he's made with him hasn't been much. Have you been surprised
05:12 by how quickly he's settled in the City? How do you think he's going to evolve from
05:19 now on?"
05:20 "I can't really talk about an isolated player. Nevertheless, I think that we're not going
05:36 to be surprised that players from the Balkans have difficulty adapting. Croats, Serbians,
05:43 Montenegro, they adapt rather quickly, the Balkan players. And Mateo is a very singular
05:52 player which helps him. Also, on the personal side of things, he's very adaptable. That
06:01 also happened at Real Madrid. He was rather happy. And so I hear from my contacts. And
06:07 everyone spoke very highly of him. So yeah."
06:09 "Thank you."
06:10 "Hi, Facts."
06:11 "All good here?"
06:12 "Yeah."
06:13 "We had a bit of an issue at the beginning. I think we should have leveled."
06:26 "I think he had a problem with his headphones. I wasn't hearing an issue."
06:33 "We're good, we're good."
06:41 "I think it was more just…"