The Chilean defender: “I understood the soul of this club. The group is fine, there is enthusiasm, Baroni has ideas. Now we have to bring out our spirit”
It’s not all “Garra”, determination and personality. Guillermo Maripan is a world to discover: soon it is tough in the field, but then it is also a warrior who manages to close the first Serie A championship with a more than positive “disciplinary” balance (one red and four admonitions). He has the joke ready, but he returns very serious when it is time to trace the way as a recognized leader who is from Toro. There is a definition that feels tattooed under the skin. “I feel like a captain without a band every day. You always look, it is not a band that makes a captain, but it is the personality and his ability to be a leader”.
Maripan, what is the balance of the first part of the pre -season?
“We did a good retirement, very hard physically. The tests were useful for taking the pace and starting to put the coach’s ideas into practice”.
What is missing for the championship debut?
“We have to better understand the coach’s ideas, and then you need the right time to the new purchases to enter the mechanisms of the team. I am positive, because I see that the group is fine: my companions are enthusiastic, Baroni is an excellent coach with many good ideas”.
Who has impressed it of the new purchases?
“They are all strong footballers: they must help the team to raise the level”.
How is it being found with Ismajli?
“Very well, he is strong. He has a fundamental quality for a defender: excellent communication”.
Did Aboukhlal already knew him having played five years at the monk?
“Ah yes, the cobra, we call it all so (laughs, editor’s note).
What did Baroni asked her?
“To be a defender. To be a strong, Italian defender. A leader.”
What struck it more than this coach?
“I like his idea of football and his style. He is direct, it’s easy to understand.”
October 5, Inter-Turin in Serie A, if he remembers it …
“Yes yes, I still remember it very well today …”.
He gets a red after 20 ‘, but since then she imposes herself: what has that expulsion taught her?
“From that game I changed the way of defending, I understood how the Serie A is and what are the times to defend and anticipate the attackers. This game represents a before and after, because from that moment I understood how to play in Italy”.
In the last Serie A he only had red with Inter and 4 yellow. Where is the mistake?
“I am always ready to go to battle, but I try to anticipate the playful play, so I never arrive late at the physical duel. Of course, I want to be close to the attacker and go strong, but remaining cold I avoid the cards”.
The bull played the first friendlies with a reduced offensive potential, there are no Zapata, Ngonge, Njie, Aboukhal has just arrived, Vlasic and Adams in search of the form: when will they all be there, what sensations did he have in the championship projection?
“It will be a bull who will be able to have his say. We all know how strong and important is strong, Ngonge is an too strong striker: everyone will help us a lot. He is being born a nice bull. From the offensive point of view we have to do better than a year ago”.
“The goal is as high as possible, the bull must always be high. We have a great company, a beautiful stadium, a good team, only confidence is missing. We must believe that we can aim for Europe”.
First impressions on Israel?
“He has important qualities to help us. He has everything to be a good goalkeeper for the bull, he has personality. Paleari is also making a great pre -season: we have strong goalkeepers”.
What do you like about Serie A?
“Everything is very competitive. I think I played a first season in Serie A on a good level, now for me the goal is to confirm and improve myself”.
Which tip has you put more in difficulty?
“I make two names: Kean and Rate”.
What did you understand in the last year?
“That the most important thing is to try to always embody the Bull Spirit. The fans ask for the determination, a quality that characterizes me. The fans like when you enter hard, whether you take the ball or the leg (laughs, editor’s note). I feel one from Bull”.
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