The coachs of First Division are discovered in the face of the solidity of the Valencia 

The coachs of First Division are discovered in the face of the winter champion's solidity and they highlight their defensive strength

The Valencia doesn't fall in love for its game, but all the technicians of First Division have already measured their forces this season with the group of Benítez and they come undone in praises toward him. None of them doubt. It is a team solid, firm applicant to the title of League.

The Valencia doesn't deceive anybody. It prefixes the effectiveness to the show and the technicians value it. The system is above the personal splendor of the players and the game hardly varies. It has only changed the mark type in the strategy plays–now it is the man–, and on the other hand the block has not accused the constants exchanges that the coach introduces.

Benítez defends the rotations because the circumstances force him. Their team is alive in the three competitions–League, Cup and UEFA Cup–and the coach considers that the insole, although he enjoys his approval, it is not completely compensated.

The coach has claimed reinforcements until the satiety–with direct confrontations with the sport director–and the certain thing is that he fancies short in some demarcations, especially in the lateral one left, because Carboni doesn't have natural relief due to the lesion of Fabio Aurelio.

The Italian veteran defense has offered fulfilled answer, because he has not had more rest than, when in an occasion, Benítez tossed hand of Garrido. It is, next to Cañizares, the player that more minutes have disputed.

The best weapons
The symbolic title of winter champion that the Valencia shows has gone matched to the strength defensive, main virtue that maintains the team for several years..

Benítez has used different combinations to safeguard his goal. He has appealed seven players and he has presented other so many different lines. But the effectiveness doesn't stick to the quartet that acts for before Cañizares, but to the work of the group that is sacrificed in contention works and fold when it loses the position of the ball.

It is a fact that in the Valencia the spirit of the block prevails above the individualities, although it also has them. From Aguirre to Valverde, going by Irureta, Victor Fernández, Caparrós, Lotina, Rijkaard, Ramos or Queiroz; all the coachs coincide in that the order and the solidity with those that Benítez has endowed the Valencia are the best weapons in the block.

“In the soccer it is law to make bad few things and in the Valencia we have an example to continue”, he affirmed yesterday to LAS PROVINCIAS the Celta Lotina. “It has a very compensated insole. The Madrid, for budget, is above all, but its defense doesn't offer as many guarantees as that of the Valencia”, he annotated.

Sus palabras coincidieron con las de Aguirre, entrenador del Osasuna. “Su mejor virtud es la solidez que muestra el bloque”, aseguró el mexicano, impresión que comparte el técnico valenciano del Albacete, César Ferrando: “Es el mejor equipo del fútbol español, con diferencia sobre los demás”.

Carlos Queiroz remembered in the pages of the newspaper Marca what stung the Madrid the 2-0 of Mestalla. “It is the hardest rival with which we have faced. It presented us many problems.” The Dutchman of the Barça, Frank Rijkaard, defined on the other hand those of Benítez like “a compact team in which the community deprives about the individualities”, and Jabo Irureta highlighted “the tactical order that combines with good individualities”.

The declarations of some and other coachs could subscribe them anyone of them, because total coincidence exists in the spirit. “It is that the Valencia is perfectly compensated in defense and attack and it is logical that it is the leader”, Juande Ramos assured.

“It has a magnificent team that every year grows in all the concepts of the game”, it remarked the sevillista Caparrós. And Victor Fernández, the technician of the other team hispalense, the Betis, considered it “the most solid and more athletic block in the championship. Apart from defending very well, it is vertical and it has a very quick counterblow. I omen him many options of winning the League”.

The Valencia has reached most of age. It puts fear to the rivals and, also, like it happens to the champions, the day that doesn't very neither play it loses.

Main center of attention and several praises for the whole press after their new landmark with the Valencia, Rafael Benítez Maudes (Madrid, April 16 1960) took advantage of yesterday's day to be cut the hair contributing normality later a day. Cured of fright and hardened in a thousand battles, this graduate in Physical Education for the INEF of Madrid (1982) and national trainer of soccer makes history with his team again. Besides signing the best first turn in the history ché, the luxury has been allowed of finishing it for before the Real Madrid galactic of Florentine Pérez, that which doesn't stop to have its crumb. Mainly if one keeps in mind that he was formed as player in the quarry of Real Madrid and that he was coach of their inferior divisions and until of the first team, sharing stool with Del Bosque. 

Benítez, united forever Extremadura in the professional thing and in the personal thing--he married being in Almendralejo and her bigger daughter, Claudia, was also born while she was coach of the CF Extremadura--, he has not broken up her bonds with the region. 

To the before insulted Benítez defenders have been born him everywhere. Raincoat, continues faithful to his profile of meticulous worker and professional until the last consequences. That the galaxy is not neglected that, in spite of the trips, Rafa can mount the chicken.

It is hallucinating. What is making the Valencia of Benítez has a terrible merit,......, I say It for the respect that deserves me the work of a technician, Rafa Benítez, to which some illuminated ones wanted to put of paws in the street last summer.

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