Gallo boss Villarruel on ADN GOL: «We'll make it hard for Colón» | OneFootball

Morón’s manager spoke to ADN Gol ahead of El Gallito’s clash with Colón, and these were his main points.

“The truth is, those contacts with Colón began at a time when honestly I couldn’t focus one hundred percent on that because we were playing — I don’t know if you remember — last year’s reduced playoff tournament, in the semifinal stage. That was when the contacts started. The truth is, well, I have very fond memories of the talks we had with Alonso, and with Ezequiel too.”

“I was left with that thorn of not having been able to line up timing-wise with what Colón needed. I had one more year left on my contract, and I honestly felt that I couldn’t do anything different from what I ask of players when there is a contractual commitment. So it seemed to me that I had to back up what I’ve been doing at the club for years, and I had to show it through actions. So I made the decision to stay and finish my contract, which expires now on December 31, and well, Colón made the very good decision to hire Diego, who is a great professional and is doing a great job.”

“The reality is that he got in touch with me, he obviously told me that he had asked around and requested references. You know the world of football is very small, and getting references is something all of us can do in a matter of minutes. At that point my work at the club was ending its fifth year, so there were references everywhere from directors, players, coaches, and well, he got to me, he became interested in the work we had done at the club, and what interested him most was the part where I explained that we don’t work with very high budgets and that sometimes we use lower divisions like Primera B, Primera C, and the Federal A tournament to strengthen the squad. So, well, they were enriching talks. Hopefully at some point the opportunity comes, and if not, we’ll each continue on our own path.”

“I’m going to put it this way, and I say it with pride, not to the detriment of my player: I believe, in my view, that Colón’s number 9 is one of the best center forwards in the division, without any doubt, and our number 9 comes from Centro Español. Sure, with that example I think it shows everything. Now, on the pitch there won’t be any differences, I can assure you of that. It’s going to be a battle where obviously Colón has the responsibility to win the match, because that’s the reality: they are the favorites to win the tournament, they have to win the tournament. The rest of us look for ways to make things more difficult for them and complicate matters, but on the pitch there won’t be that budget gap. For us, maybe one of our biggest goals is to repeat or improve on what we did last year, keeping the same formula, always with modest budgets, being resourceful, working very hard, doing a lot of scouting in the lower divisions, and making life difficult for the bigger teams — in this case Colón — which for me has the responsibility of winning the match and winning the group so they can then play the final. Why would we make things easy? We are very, very strong at home, very, very strong.”

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