“Two leagues, but for people nothing is enough”

Two years have passed since he left the Barça bench but for now he still hasn’t returned to training. In an interview in the magazine ‘Líbero’, Ernest Valverde He talks about his time at the Camp Nou for two and a half seasons, until he was dismissed in January 2020.

“We were there, there were two leagues and it was good, but it seems that for people nothing is enough. I was there for two and a half years in the three years we were first in the Champions group and with a margin game, in the three years we had plenty of last game”, he points out in the extensive interview.

“I have lived eight and a half years in Barcelona, ​​as a player for Barça, Espanyol and now as a coach and because of the size of the role you occupy, everything has changed. When I was a player I used to go to El Born to take photos, I can’t imagine now some Barça player with his face uncovered to take pictures around there”, he comments on his other passion, photography. “This position for these two years has been different but the rest, once that happens, and you know that the coach of another team has less space than you because you are the Barça coach and that gives you more focus but that, once that you leave it, it is diluted”.

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