OFFICIAL: The reasons of the Barça to appoint technical secretary to Eric Abidal

It does some days that is official, but this Tuesday has announced in front of the means. The FC Barcelona has presented to Eric Abidal like new technical secretary, in a press conference in which the vice-president Jordi Mestre and Pep Safe have accompanied to the French. The mánager general of the club has given some details with regard to his incorporation.

The responsible maximum of the area of football has begun appreciating to Robert Fernández his work in the last seasons, before recalcar that the decision goes joined exclusively to his competitions. "We have decided to begin a new stage and have a new structure with which think that can achieve the aims", has aimed, before enumerating the reasons by which bets by the one of Saint-Genis-Laval.

"In the first place, I have chosen to Abidal so that it carry the day in day out of the staff, to solve the problems of the players, to be at the side of the staff technical... Eric understands perfectly well this situation because till lately time was in this changing room", has underlined the Catalan incidiendo in the main argument to have the ex side.

"Abidal Understands perfectly the situation of the staff because till lately it was in this changing room"

Besides, also it justifies that in spite of not having experience, yes has a good preparation to professional level: "it Has been chosen by the knowledge of the market to international level. Eric does not have experience, but from does time wanted to be professional in this field and has prepared . Even it has done the course of training that asks the UEFA. His will has been to know the internal operation of the big European clubs. In 2016 it did us a visit to know the structure of our club".

"The third reason has to see with his nationality and his ancestry on the French market. It is the market of the that more feed the European competitions and potentially is very important for us", has remembered, before putting above the rest the values of the Frenchman, that coincide clearly with which tries to transmit the Barça.

"These three criteria are of professional type, but also is the human component. The values that exhibited when it was in our club, want that our players and our technicians also have these values of integration in our club", has highlighted Pep Safe, that has given step to a recently arrived that has a lot of illusion for beginning his new stage.

Abidal, convinced and trusted his turn to the Barça

Although it has not wanted to give a lot of tracks of his immediate plans of work, Eric Abidal himself has made a statement of intentions in the press conference in which it has confirmed his turn to the Barça: "For me it is a pride form part of the club again. The aim is to win titles. Have experience and, therefore, can do that have an interesting communication and can take good decisions for the club".