What feelings did the Stage finished in Andorra?
The truth is that we started a little too early, but this beginning was a bit of the disposition of the players. There is a World Cup shortly and the goal of the Stage in Andorra was to be able to be together the players and the staff, since in the staff we are all new and there are also new players. It was more coexistence than not working in particular.
More than ever it was necessary to carry out this type of concentration.
Yes, since it came from working seven years with the same coach and there is a change. A new whole staff arrives, with coaches, physical trainers, everything is new and the ways of working are new and different, hence it was so good to start as soon as possible to work in this aspect.
“The pressure of being in Barça is fantastic. When you are at work you also have pressure because if you don't do well they can throw you. Blessed pressure”
What illusion does David Cáceres go to the first team of Barça de Hockey Patines?
It is clear that when you come to Barça the goal is to win any competition you play, although later you do not get it. The goal from day one is to win everything, starting from the Spanish Super Cup, which we have shortly, to the Champions League that is the last thing we will compete.
Europe, said Gaby Cairo, Barça sports coordinator, Europe arouses a great illusion at the club.
It is the most renowned competition, although sometimes it is not the toughest, and this year it will be hard. The format has changed a little, there will be two groups of six and you want or there are no very powerful Portuguese teams, some very strong Italian and can touch you three very powerful teams in the same group. During the season it will be important to have a long template.
“You train the best club in the world and you earn life, there is nothing more than to make me happier”
I don't know if Gaby Cairo's words when prioritizing Europe increase pressure.
Well, it is the pressure that Barça has once you arrive, whether you are in fry and children's and I was until recently, until you are up. You know what cuabando you are up what touches you is to win. You can do it very well and not win and the season will not be good, and you may not have worked so well and ganes and the season will be 10.
What Barça has been found?
The truth is that most players already knew them, both those who were and those who have come. I see them with great desire, always for a player a change of coach is a change of everything. We meet some players with a lot of willingness to help us because when you get new to a house it is important to help you. They really want to do new things and for the moment we are enjoying a lot.
“We bet on a very skater game. We want to play a lot in the face of the rival goal. Our idea is that all players feel important. Make a team in which they all defend and attack all”
What does David Cáceres ask for players?
Especially that both and this are a lot of dialogue. I think it is important to team up and more in clubs such as Barça that sometimes there is great media pressure from the outside, the more group we do and the more team the better we can take the season.
He said in his presentation that he wanted a team that was very skater and to prioritize looking for the opposite goal.
We are lucky to have the two best goalkeepers that in my opinion are currently (Sergi Fernández and Carles Grau) and this is an advantage that allows you to play more offensively. And one of the ideas we have this year is to play a lot for the goal. We have a very compensated team. All players are very skating and this makes we can start from above and when we recover the ball, go out very fast to the rival goal.
In the end it is always good to bet on the show, both for the team itself and for sport and fans.
Yes, but if you don't earn for much show that you will tell you what it touches. But it is true that if you do the houses well, you play the attack and you are lucky to have the goal we have is a very good way to play and give show as you say.
He talks about looking for the rival goal, but the team lost the 'Magician' Bargalló and scorer Joao Rodrigues.
I think we have a great template, in which there will be a lot of competition and we will have to manage the team differently. We will have to ensure that instead of two players, they are the ones who make many goals between all and this is our idea, that everyone feels important. Make a team in which they all defend and attack all.
Recovering the theme of Europe, how can you compete with the economic and sports power of Portuguese clubs?
Yes, satisfied, but we are Barça and we have a template of nine players that not everyone has and we have to take advantage of it. There will be a big competition to enter the call and then the minutes will be expensive. Barça is not inferior to any Portuguese team for more money they have. I think that lately the Champions has escaped Barça for small details. If we polish them, and we also have the luck that is also needed to win, perfect.
You are a club man who knows the lower categories of Barça and therefore the youngest ones see more options to reach the first team.
Well, we are lucky that now the staff we will have is the one that goes from the base to the first team and this can make young people integrated more, although it is very difficult to take the direct step of the base to the first team, but they do know they can leave and return, and we have the clear example of Sergi Aragonès. We have several players who have gone and return to be important pieces of the team. It is clear that our relationship with the base will be very direct and for the players this has to be a stimulus to work more to get there. Let's confess a lot in young people and the way of playing the base and the first team is the same.
Have you always been faithful to the skatering style?
I have always been faithful to the offensive game and when I played it was more attacker than defender, and that is why I try to play my teams more to attack.
How has the game changed since the skates were removed and sat on the benches?
Especially at the physical level. The players are stronger and lengthen their career and looks a lot in physical preparation. There is no field behind, before you were 22 meters to play and if they squeezed it it was very difficult to play, now you are 40 meters to play.
Note the lack of club portfolio?
No. I just arrived new and I am very happy with the team we have. We have made three very good signings (Sergi Aragonès, Pablo Álvarez and Ferran Font), plus the basis we have. We have players with a lot of experience and in the goal we have two incredible goalkeepers. There is no team that has two goalkeepers like us.
How did you know the offer to direct Barça's first team?
I am lucky to meet Gaby (Cairo) because he was at the base and play with him with veterans. Little by little my name was heard. I know it wasn't the first option, I kept working with the base. I was lucky that the season with the base was very good and in the end my name was the one that sounded the most. Gaby told me and for me it is very typical that it is a dream, but it is true. I entered Barça with 15 years as youth and get to be the coach of the first team is the maximum that can happen to you. You train at the best club in the world and on the desire life, there is nothing more than to make me happier.
Where does the passion for hockey skates come from?
I am the third brother of a family of hockey players. My older brother began, he was the first to entered Barça. Then my medium brother did and in fact there was a moment that we agreed the three in Barça and we started with a school in Barcelona. My father was a footballer and it was chance that in the school we were (Santa Isabel) had hockey.
And he has always been a passing of this sport.
Yes, I started skating with three years and playing with five, and that is what I am comfortable. He entered a hockey track and I am comfortable. It's my house.
You have gone through different clubs, what makes Barça different?
Well, the way you can work and everything you have. I've been in very humble clubs, even when I was as a player in matched and it was a Top club you don't have the advantages you have in Barça. As much as it is said that in Portugal there is a lot of money the way of working here is very professional. You have many colleagues who help you, technical means.
Don't you fear the pressure of directing Barça?
It is clear that you have pressure, but most coaches would like to be where I am. The pressure of being in Barça is fantastic. When you are at work you also have pressure because if you don't do well they can throw you. Blessed pressure.
What kind of coach is David Cáceres, hard, demanding, close to the players?
I think I am very quiet and normally believe very good atmosphere within the team and I am to tighten the players, but as far as you can. Sometimes, exciteing players too much is bad. I remember that when I was a player I did not like that they were screaming at me, that they told me according to what and therefore I try to apply what I would like to tell me. Quiet, when you have to tighten, it is done, but always from respect. And the quieter you are the quieter your team will be on the track, what you cannot do is put your players nervous in moments of stress.
Have you been able to make vacations?
Yes, at work (I worked in the advertising sector) I asked for a leave, although you already wanted to start.
