Unión: How does scouting find players for reserves and youth? | OneFootball

Renzo Marzocchi stopped by the ADN Gol microphones and explained the work he does with another group of people working at Unión around the training of players for both the lower and reserve teams.

Yes, absolutely. We are constantly, the idea was that, to generate that competitiveness in the squads, always improving and thinking about assembling and strengthening the boys with that tool that they may not have, perhaps in the generation of our lower teams.

So we do this process, perhaps in reserve already of what we call scouting. In that idea, precisely, you touched on the offensive theme, we had done the analysis that with the departure of Franco Ratotti, with perhaps also Tomás Romero, who had gone to play in the United States, with the injury of Dylan Greco, we needed to incorporate boys who could join that competitiveness and in that idea we had to go out and do this search process. This is how, for example, Valentín Cerrudo arrives, who is a boy we were able to bring from River, Ricky Solbes, Nacho Pedano, are boys who were precisely oriented and thought in that engineering to try to reinforce that offensive issue, but we are constantly analyzing and seeing deficits, not only in reserve, but in the formative block, which my position is in the whole organization and logistics of the catch.

We are constantly monitoring with Ariel, with Marcelo in recruitment, and obviously with the technical bodies the deficits and the shortages that they consider to try to be balanced in that and in the incorporations that we bring that there is an organic and balanced issue of incorporation.

He was a boy that we also monitor what is the region, the first filter we do, obviously the city and the region. Like Alan Sosa came, at the time Perezutti and Fagioli also came, who were boys who stood out in Colón de San Justo, in the regional. Alan's thing was obviously perhaps more noticeable for being a forward, for being a scorer, for playing in the Rafaelina league team, but that monitoring is permanent, Alan's feelings are very good, a boy who is obviously also adapting to a training and a different issue than what was July 9, but I chat with Nico a lot and Alan is doing very well.

because obviously one makes decisions, which is always subject to error or mistake, in this sense we try to reduce it, we think of a succession plan, what we call a succession plan from reserve down, so there we see perhaps where there is a deficit, so it is thought, that incorporation is oriented to perhaps the player that we consider is the one who is to take the step, perhaps is 2, 3 years younger than the one who is playing today and the need and urgency of competition make you perhaps bring a boy who has a present and not so much projection, it was also the case of Enzo Rubio, who we before the departure of Morales, who had been the captain and emblem of last year, who went to play at Atlético Rafaela and also thinking perhaps in first division with Lautaro and with all the issues of his possible call and perhaps departure. Well, we thought that Enzo, a boy who had been captain of River's reserve, with a lot of aplomb and experience despite his youth, was a present that was going to solve a lot of issues, especially this one of playing important matches and the range of competition that we had to bring.

Felipe Zili also came, who had been playing at Talleres. Well, there were a lot of options that we thought about, but yes, we always try to be cautious in that and in that incorporation not perhaps delay a project that comes from below.

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