In 2017, Luis Enrique Martínez announced that it would not follow training to the FC Barcelona and the Barcelona club had to look for him a relief. Finally, it finish arriving Ernesto Valverde, that already did summers that sounded for the group culé. The work that had done in other clubs finish being key to decant by him.
Roughly a year and half after the technician extremeño went chosen for the bench of the Camp Nou, the Txingurri already accumulates three official titles: a League, a Glass of Rey and a Supercopa of Spain. In a technical day promoted by the Barça Innovation Hub under the name 'Football Coach Analytics Summit', desveló some of the keys of his philosophy of game.
The txingurri spoke of the important that are the data recopilados to pose parties, but warned that it is not the most important: "The trainers are generally looking for answers to everything. To what occurs each Sunday, to what can occur the following Sunday... Or to what can be a season. In general to how we can improve our team day in day out. And the data give us a lot of answers, but perhaps the key is in another thing".
Valverde Confessed that in the Athletic learnt another method: "We worked in the Athletic with a director that said us that the key was to look for good questions more than having a lot of answers. The key is in the question. The question is to look for the questions that can do us investigate by where can go the way".
Finally, the technician of the FC Barcelona ensured that of little serves to have recopilado all the possible data if finally they do not know extract of them the necessary conclusions: "Sometimes the trainers overwhelm us with the data, sometimes so many data do not know to take it out to clean neither extract conclusions".
The future of Valverde
The agreement of Ernesto Valverde gives option to that the Txingurri continue a season more in the bench of the Camp Nou, although this season is optional by part so much of the club as of the technician. According to the informations published by several national means, the FC Barcelona wants that the trainer extremeño was still in 2019. It will be necessary to see which answer gives the extremeño and which are his sportive results.