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Alfredo Santaelena: "The top favorites are Deportivo and Racing de Santander"

Todavía no han confirmado a Alfredo Santaelena como entrenador del DUX Internacional y eso que obró el milagro de clasificarlo para la Primera RFEF con poco más de 300.000 euros de presupuesto. Todo está muy revuelto en el club gamer.Alfredo Santaelena: “Los máximos favoritos son el Deportivo y el Racing de Santander” Alfredo Santaelena: “Los máximos favoritos son el Deportivo y el Racing de Santander”

They are expected to do so this week and its intention is to continue, but there is also the option that the Dux sells its place to Atlético de Madrid for its subsidiary.The eagles awaits him in Second RFEF with open arms if he does not stay in the video game team.Numancia could also have interest, there the sports director of Dux, Rubén Andrés, left last week, so the Madrid club has stayed a little in stand by.

On Sunday he granted an interview with the Galician media Dxt Champion in which he said that Deportivo, where he shone as a footballer, and Racing de Santander seem the two great favorites of Group I of First RFEF.The Cantabrians still have a lot of name and that weight of the 44 seasons in the First Division.“It is an attractive group with great teams such as Dépor, Racing de Santander or the subsidiaries.There is a very big competition.Above all is a new and very similar category to the second A, with great teams and very good fields.It will be a very nice championship to play.For me, in theory, the highest candidates and favorites are sports and racing of Santander.Then the other teams will be there fighting.There are always surprises, like us this year, that nobody bet on us, they saw us descending, but we managed to end among the first three of our group, ”explained the former player of Atlético, Deportivo and Seville.

On the new first RFEF and its slow professionalization, the Madrid coach has a different opinion from that of many and I think we must also take care of humble clubs: “At first, all second B clubs were very excited to ascend to the firstRFEF because there was talk of certain economic amounts and improvements in the theme of the capacity of the fields, the surfaces, the lights...I think that clubs have reached an agreement in most of those aspects, but professionalizing the competition would be a mistake because putting a minimum salary would be to condemn many teams that could not assume those amounts.For Dépor or Racing that does not imply a problem, but for a club like ours it would be impossible ”.

Alfredo Santaelena: “Los máximos favoritos son el Deportivo y el Racing de Santander”

Alfredo also began the "separation" of Castilla from the rest of the Madrid teams: "These are things in which we cannot enter, but surprise a little.I think it has been to look for the morbidity of Barça-Real Madrid Castilla because the rest of the Madrid teams are in the west group and the most normal thing is that they were also here ”.

Consider Dépor and Racing favorites, but Alfredo is aware of what then happens in this category: “There are two or three teams that may be a little above the rest, although then at the football level, we already saw it last yearWith Deportivo, who suffered a lot to get into the first RFEF because in the end there is a lot of equality and even if you spend a lot of money, it does not guarantee that you will have a template to ascend.Although they do start as favorites, but I face it just like this year, making my team see that with the idea of the game we have we have done very well.I think there is not so much difference with what was the second B and the last year we compete very well.Our goal was not to be among the last four classified in our group, but, with a more humble budget, we made a very good season, we ended up among the top three and gave our face in the second phase.I am happy with my work as a coach ".

Santa, who raised to train Deportivo this summer, analyzed the great rival to beat for everyone in this group: “I think that this year is signing well.You have to try to sign the best in the category, being a wealthy team and that you can sign them, you have to try to make a competitive template, but knowing that they are players who come from teams that have had those demands.And it is important that the coach knows them and Borja Jiménez knows the category very well and what kind of soccer players need.Dépor has already lost respect this year in Second B, and that was the clear favorite to be champion.Players from higher categories came and had to adapt.In that sense, it is also an important coach's job to know how to motivate them because it will be the team to beat for all the rivals.Dépor soccer players should know how to mask that pressure to ascend and be intelligent.Knowing how to handle such things, there will be a good team and it will be up, but only with the shield do not win games ”.He also valued the arrival of Borja Jiménez to the Coruña bench: “I faced Borja when he trained Bouzas rapid and then was in Greece, ascended to Second with Mirandés and Cartagena...He is a young boy, with good ideas and I hope he has all the luck in the world and the Dépor returns where he deserves ”.