Adrián Bastía shares his dream: "I want to manage Racing" | OneFootball

“Yes, yes, I'll tell you before you ask me.” He answers the phone from Santa Fe, during one of his few free moments. Between birthdays (his own, in December), year-end closures, holidays, and more. Adrián Jesús Bastía has already finished the season in the Totorense League and says he is ready for his next challenge. He wants to start coaching in professional football as soon as possible because he has a dream to fulfill: “Diego wanted to be president, I want to be a coach, obviously. I want to coach Racing.”

Diego is Milito, of course. With whom he became champion in 2001, in the team managed by Carlos Reinaldo Mostaza Merlo. But the relationship with the former striker dates back much earlier. “Diego, what can I say, we were in the dormitory, we went to his house to eat, the relationship we have, it makes me very happy that he fulfilled his dream, I hope he can take Racing higher than he dreamed.”

“Afternoons, noons, nights at his house, we spent entire weekends there, after the games we went to Diego's house and it was like a hotel for us, an all-inclusive. We have beautiful memories of his father, mother, siblings, everyone, because we shared so much, and we had a slightly better time, we didn't want to go back to the dormitory. On Sunday we had to return to the dormitory, which truly taught us a lot, we learned, it left us lifelong friends, whom we still remember, talk to, meet up with, so it's a very beautiful stage of life where you make friendships that last a lifetime.”

He talks about Racing with a devotion that you can feel in his tone. About his beginnings, his debut in the First Division, fighting relegation, going bankrupt, being managed, and celebrating a title after 35 years.

“I lived through all the stages. We are from the core of Racing, we lived through it all. We disappeared and reappeared. In one year we played 17 games in 20 days. So I lived through Racing's worst stage and also what for me was the most glorious, which was becoming champion after 35 years. I can say I lived through all the stages at Racing. All of them. All of them. So I'm at peace with that. I don't regret living in the dormitory, on the contrary. The dormitory taught me a lot, I learned a lot. We weren't that bad either. We had a good time, we had to make do, but we enjoyed it, we missed things like everyone does, but honestly, it makes you feel it even more as your own, from what we lived, so I really enjoyed living in the Racing dormitory, a lot, because I enjoyed it, because I learned, because I grew, so I'm truly grateful and I would love for Racing to be even better than it is, it's good. It's very good, but I would love for it to have another facility, I would love for the First Division to train in a 5-star facility, it has the people for that, it's big enough to have all that, it should have had it a long time ago, but little by little we have to keep growing.”

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