Guardiola, Arteta, Slot, Unay Emery … The Premier is set for big names but this time nobody had the prominence of Andoni Iraola. He occupies the bench in the Bournemouth and is doing one of the most spectacular seasons in the history of the club to the point of having the Champions positions with a spectacular football. The last day received the Nottingham Forest at home, the revelation team, and dispatched it with a tremendous 5-0 that make their Bournemouth and Iraola himself the great sensation of the Premier. Eye because this weekend he receives the almighty Liverpool and must respond to his fame as matagigants. This season, the Bournemouth has already defeated the City, United, Arsenal, Newcastle and Tottenham. Who gives more?
Behind that somewhat bland image, unfortunate, who could go through any fan going to the stadium, hides a real madman of football, a scholar that spins everything and is hooked on peculiar matters. An example is that it is an authentic obsessive of a situation that can occur in a game at any time: when he speaks of football, one of his favorite songs is what happens if his team stays with ten.
How any coach likes to influence their players although it always seeks way to reach them more naturally and see them authentic. He believes that the player has a special radar to penetrate what the coaches are.
Search in other sports
He is passionate about the NFL, a game he studies and who would like to import the incidence of coaches in the game. That of being able to speak for the pinganillo with quaterback or with the rest of the coaches sees it well although I would consider it too intrusive in European football but is convinced that you can take advantage of American football things.
Although he is being the protagonist in one of the most attractive championships, the Premier, Iraola looks at the Bundesliga. He is a great fan of the German tournament and sees his games whenever he can. He believes they have organized dynamism. He likes how the strikers squeeze or that the centrals reach offensive positions. As he usually says, it is a football in which “things happen.”
Inseparable paper and ball
Another of Iraola’s peculiarities is to handle the small details. For example, pull paper and ball. Their walks in Vallecas, from the bench to the locker room, are legendary, aiming details of the match. Some of those notebooks have ended in the trash. Others are in force and consults for the second round matches. It has some saved, the ascent with the ray, and does not hesitate to pull paper and ball if something occurs out of football. His wife is accustomed to the fact that, in the middle of the walk, Andoni looted the notebook.
Iraola, in a Premier match
How good Basque, is fond of cycling. His great idol was the Swiss Gianetti, whom he had the opportunity to greet. The cyclist was impressed with the knowledge Iraola had of his figure.
Andoni knows everything, he follows everything and sees everything. To the point that he plays a kind of fantasy, such as football leagues, called Tropela. You have to make cyclist equipment and Iraola has a good eye. Choose not well -known runners but good performance, of those who give points. And competes with his gang of friends from the Basque Country. Kepa, his goalkeeper in the Bournemouth, is also very fond of tropela.
But what Andoni Iraola is involved is neither in cycling, nor in the Bundesliga nor in the NFL. He is in making history in the Premier, notebook in hand. And he gets it. He is the technician of the moment.