This is how Quique Setién acquired the idea of ​​the possession game

The past month of January, Quique Setién was appointed like new trainer of the FC Barcelona until June of 2022. The Cantabrian arrived to the Barcelona bench in replacement of Ernesto Valverde, with which the team finish to be deleted of the Supercopa of Spain in semifinals but that went leader in LaLiga Santander and was classified for the eighth of final of the Champions League.

With the Txingurri, the results were being acceptable inside the context that the Real Madrid and the Athletic were having a very grey season. This yes, the game of the team was of profile very low and in some parties saw entirely surpassed by the one of the rival. It was thus that from the club looked for a solution from the bench, stirring several options of technicians that bet by the offensive game of possession.

The peculiarity that had Quique Setién that it differentiated him of the rest was that it had not had any important sportive attainment in his career, since it never had conquered any title. Nevertheless, his philosophy of game fit in the perfection in the bench, being besides a technician of character and of strong ideals that had to go back to impose the game of possession.

In a recent videollamada through Beach Soccer Worldwide, Setién explained how changed him entirely the vision of the football when it analysed the work of Johan Cruyff in the Barça. "Until I did not see to the Barça of Cruyff did not concern me a lot of the tactics, went out to the field to play and already. When you see the Barça of Cruyff, to play to to touch…", expressed, with big admiration.

It was then when the Cantabrian began to analyse the details to be able to them apply in his teams. "Have the balloon, began to see as it played the football, jumped to the field, went behind the balloon and did not see it. Here you begin to see tactical appearances and this why raisin, begin to analyse the things, to see them, to look for reasons, darse of what likes you and begin to fix an idea in the head and is in which I have followed", sentenced.

Setién Will be still in the Barça

The FC Barcelona​ has clear that Quique Setién will keep on being the trainer of the first team of football the next season. The club will trust him to the santanderino the new sportive project, in which already it is working jointly with the technical area to outline the future staff, that could have quite a lot of novelties regarding high and low the next campaign.