Adrián Bastía reveals 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, in 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 had the desire to be president, I have the desire to be a coach, obviously. I want to coach Racing."

Diego is Milito, of course. With whom he was crowned champion in 2001, in the team led 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 ever 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 anymore. On Sunday, we had to start the return to the dormitory, which truly taught us a lot, we learned, it left us with lifelong friends, whom we still remember, talk to, meet 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 heart of Racing, we lived through them all. We disappeared and reappeared. In the same year, we played 17 games in 20 days. So I lived through the worst stage of Racing and also what for me was the most glorious, which was winning the championship after 35 years. I can say that 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 it like everyone does, but the truth is that it makes you feel it even more as your own, from what we lived through, so I really enjoyed living in the Racing dormitory, a lot, because I enjoyed it, because I learned, because I grew, so the truth is I'm grateful and I would love for Racing to be even better than it is, it's fine. 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 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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