Aguirre: “We are very excited to reach the final without being in our project”

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The coach of Real Mallorca, the Mexican Javier Aguirre, highlighted this Friday afternoon that they are “very excited” because they have reached “a final of the Copa del Rey”, which they will play on Saturday at the La Cartuja stadium in Seville. against Athletic Club, without it being in the “project” that they set at the beginning of the season.

“We want to win the game, compete well against an opponent that has twenty-five points more than us and who beat us 4-0 in the last match, but we are playing for a title and we are going to fight for it,” Aguirre said in his press appearance. prior to training the day before on the stage of the final.

The Mexican, who is facing his second Copa del Rey final, after losing the first with Osasuna in a match that went to extra time against Betis at the Vicente Calderón stadium in Madrid, highlighted that now he is “more calm.” ”.

“Now my children are here with their father, then they were little. “I am in the twilight of my career and that was nineteen years ago, now I have more experience,” said the coach, who, focused on his rival in his second Cup final, said that what impresses him most about Athletic is its ” speed, they are tremendously fast, they are lethal and if you make a mistake they will inoculate you, very dynamic and intense with the ball and, going forward, anyone can screw you up.”

Aguirre clarified that the Tenerife midfielder Omar Mascarell, doubtful due to an injury that has kept him out in recent weeks, will be tested this Friday in training at La Cartuja “and if he does not pass the test he will not even be called up.”

The Mallorca coach stressed about the refereeing work that his team has “improved” in its relationship with the referees and that what “irritates him the most is that ninety percent of the expulsions come from the peak (talk).”

The Mexican of Biscayan descent commented that he has “made him doubt” his Basque relatives about his predilection in this final, although he acknowledged that “they are more there than here, but it doesn’t matter.”

“They took my sixteen Basque surnames, eight from my father and eight from my mother. In my house I grew up with Athletic’s results,” said Aguirre in a relaxed tone, who was “proud to be Mexican” and stated that he was “very happy” to reach this final and that “I wish more Mexican coaches could come” to the Spanish football.