Former assistant manager of Barcelona Eder Sarabia he defended his time at the club, citing the opportunities he had afterwards. Sarabia has made a name for himself due to his strict attitude and strong manner of expression, something that apparently did not go down well with a star-studded dressing room at Barcelona.
Sarabia arrived alongside Quique Setien in a disastrous eight-month spell that saw Barcelona lose La Liga and suffer their worst European defeat at Bayern Munich.
The current manager of Elche, speaking Reliefpoints out that he was later hired by Andorran owner Gerard Pique to manage the side.
“On the one hand, people were going to make mistakes, and then it became bigger, but well, I can't do that badly or I wouldn't have been involved when Gerard Pique was the one who hired me for Andorra. and when the representation agency that I have is that of Griezmann, I give these two examples. It is the first thing, and then the relationship that has been with several footballers and a few conversations that I have had with Leo, for example, that (exhales) they were amazing. I say that Leo is not only the best in history to play football, but also to understand football.
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He goes on to explain how much he enjoyed talking Messi.
“One of these conversations was in the training camp, when the session was over. We had played a little game and there was a pressure action, which was a kind of disorganized pressure and in the end they came out and created a chance score. So, I took advantage of that game to try to engage Leo as well, to help in this kind of situation, to try to help his teammates, organize them…
“Football conversations, which I remember even later that when I entered the staff dressing room, I was a little surprised because almost no one had really had a conversation of 30-40 minutes with Leo (smile), natural and speaking of football and everything he liked and because, as I said, it was shocking how he understood things.”
Elche di Sarabia is currently in fourth place in Segunda as they aim for promotion. He was fired by Andorra earlier this year after three years in charge, in which he managed to put the club of the principality in Segunda and keep it there for the first time.
