Bochini backs Costas: “I’d do the same at Independiente” | OneFootball

Gustavo Costas’s work at Racing is constantly praised, because he managed to build a competitive, cup-winning, and successful team. Not only that, but the coach manages to transmit to the fans all the passion he has for his job and for what he feels for La Academia. In this sense, he received a compliment from none other than Ricardo Bochini, a legend of Independiente: “He’s a fanatic, and I like that about him.”

“I respect him a lot—how could I not respect him? I think everyone who feels for the club should be like that. If I were at Independiente, I’d do the same,” said Bocha, in a conversation for ESPN F10. What characterizes the coach most is the intensity with which he lives every match and the madness that erupts when he has to celebrate a goal for his team.

In most of the decisive matches that Racing played under Costas’s leadership, he could be seen shouting and running all over the pitch with his staff and hugging his players. However, sometimes that passion has played against him, like in that memorable duel against Barracas Central in the first match of the Torneo Clausura, in which the team reached the final but lost to Estudiantes.

“It’s tough. I don’t sleep. I barely slept an hour after yesterday’s match, I got up at six in the morning to go train and I watched ten Cruzeiro matches. I’m happy, I love living this moment at Racing like this because as a fan I had to endure everything,” said Costas before last year’s Copa Sudamericana final, which they ended up winning 3-1 against Cruzeiro in Paraguay. A lovable madman.

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