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Interview
of Luis Furió
(Las Provincias 10-5-2004)
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Rafa Benítez dawned very serene in
Seville. The trainer from the Valencia is not given to express his
emotions. It was very clear in their semblance yesterday morning when it went down from their room to the hall of the hotel to assist to the means before the lunch
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 How has you slept?
–Little, but well.
–At what time did you go to
bed?
–On two thirty since had many commitments with the radio stations.
–For that reason you didn't go to the party?
–Yes and, also, I am not very given to the discos.
–It was a moment to take place...
–Yes, but I am very bad until to dance the slow ones.
–Won't it be because it was not their wife in the party?
–Not that goes! With that I don't have any problem. She leaves me...
–Why didn't their wife come to celebrate the success with
you?
–Because it was very precipitate and we have two small girls.
–To Gotemburgo if that she will
go?
–Yes, I suppose that yes.
–Did you call her they had hardly assured the
title?
–Yes clear, the first call was for her. She is the one that more suffers all this day by
day.
–You dedicated her the
title.
–In those moments of emotion you always think of people that you want as
her, the girls, my parents, my siblings, my nephews, my parentes in-laws, the friends that have been leaning on and in a journalist of Almendralejo that Francisco Sánchez is called that has passed very delicate moments and that he has been very pending of our team in spite of the bad thing that it was passing
it.
–By the
way, I believe that you have promised it a good gift to their wife if they won the
League...
–And so much, we speak of a clock, but hshe didn't tell me which. I believe that the one that has chosen will cost me a
kidney...
–With the serenity that the step of the hours
gives, up to where this Valencia will arrive?
–The idea is to continue in the same line. The work is the one that guarantees the
success. Now we must think of the final of the UEFA that will be very
difficult.
–Their future, in spite of having one year more than contract, is it linked it to the Valencia?
–You have said it. A year of contract I have left and now it is the moment to
enjoy.
–But do you want to continue more years in the Valencia?
–Better than in the Valencia I won't be in any place. At personal and sport
level, with the fans it is impossible to improve it.
–Who will have told to you for three years you would arrive to
this.
–The victory in the soccer is always work question. 
–The conquest of this new title the reason gives to some consultants that said that it was not necessary to reinforce to the team or does it confer him merits to you to have achieved it with
those players?
–This what gives is merit to the players. They have given the maximum and the merit belongs to them and of the work of the technical body that has always been to its surroundings
and, for that reason, we feel all very satisfied ones.
–In these moments they will give him many pats in the
back.
–That is a normal thing.
–Are tou already thinking of the match against the
Marseilles?
–I was looking now in the room the last alignment of the
Villarreal; on Friday we play with them.
–Is their work more centered in telling to the players that it is important in the physical
aspect?
–The responsibility is always in the group and we must think that to ten days seen we have an important match.
–For the first time you speaks of a distant match when before you has
another.
–The level of the players is good and the objective maximum now is the UEFA. The success of the work group is in guessing right more than what makes a
mistake.
–The Olympique has
Drogba, a player that the Valencia wanted...
–It is a great player, but it is not necessary to cry for the spilled
milk. It is not here and point.
–Has their caché ascended as the foam, you will have many offers?
–On the table I don't have none. Another thing is that there are teams that they can think of me.
–It will press when the negotiation arrives.
–When sirt down, we will speak.
-Will you demand a lot?
- Now we will enjoy. We must recover the normality for the whole
season.a.
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Press
briefing 05/09/2004
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Rafa Benítez: "The pressure has it those of behind, not us"
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 Rafa Benítez, coach from the Valencia, assured that in these last three round of the championship his team should not feel anxious neither pressed in the face of the possibility of winning the title of League, since he pointed out that its rivals that are those that are from behind in the classification should be this way. "If at the beginning of season they had told me that, in the worst in the cases, they had clipped us from four to an advantage point like leader for lack of two rounds, there was him I already signed. What we have to have is responsibility, to treat to win and to make the things well, but the anxiety and the pressure, the imperious necessity, they have it those that come behind,
not us".
Asked by the possibility that their team wins the title this same round, if Barcelona and Real Madrid don't win their match and yes it wins the Valencia, Rafa Benítez stayed faithful to his speech of caution and moderation. "The concern for the result of these matches is the fair one. My preferences are the 2 in our match, starting from there, all that benefits us welcome it is. It is not worthwhile to make numbers and to give him many turns, what it is necessary to make is to worry about your team and to confront your match with the idea of adding the three points. We have to try to win, we have a difference of points and few rounds for before, the great pressure will have it then them and we will have the obligation of making the things well to continue there before".
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 Regarding the rival of Sunday, Rafa Benítezaimed that the Sevilla is "therefore a difficult team that has the very clear ideas, we also have to put the maximum thing and to have the whole concentration". The importance of the three points in game for the two teams, since the Sevilla is played its options of playing the next edition of the UEFA Cup, it took to Rafa Benítez to indicate: "as much them as us play ourselves important things, for what I believe that it will be a match of maximum intensity".
The euphoria that has loosened after the classification last Thursday for the final of the UEFA Cup and the possibility of winning the League, doesn't should, according to Rafa Benítez, to affect his players. "It is very important to continue giving happiness and that people enjoy, but we should continue with the ideas so clear as up to now, because it is not necessary to celebrate anything before time".
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Press
briefing 04/30/2004
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RAFA BENÍTEZ: “TO WIN THIS LEAGUE WOULD HAVE TWICE AS MUCH OF VALUE THAT THE ONE OF IT MAKES DOS
SEASONS”
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 Rafa Benítez has a blind faith in the team. It is proud of the team that it has been considered as the best in the world this month of April and for this reason they don't hurt him garments in confirming the “favoritism” to conquer the League (“we are the candidate number one” he affirms) in a season where to be first at the end “It has double value" for all the circumstances that have surrounded it. The final victory is a bonus of “prestige” for a group of professionals “that they are making it very well and it demonstrates our potential. We depend on us to win it and as much as better we make it, more complicated they will have it the rivals to catch”.
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 About the decision of the appeal committee of annulling the yellow card to Luis Figo and of granting the preventive suspension to vVarela and vBenjamín that will play on Sunday against the Valencia, Rafa Benítez has underlined that this decision has him “surprised, I won't make more valuations, my intention is that we are centered in the Match, that we win the Betis that is what occupies us and it worries. The important thing is that we have the clear ideas, we are concentrated in that match and work but let us wait that the distractions of it was they are minimum”. Lastly he has shown his “trust” so that as much Aimar as Marchena and Amedeo Carboni can enter in tomorrow's convocation. “To the being the citation tomorrow” Rafa Benítez has explained, “we have that recovery margin”.
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Press
briefing 04/24/2004
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RAFA BENÍTEZ: "We have to think of that we make us, not in that they make the other ones"
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 Rafa Benítez assured that he won't look at what happens in the derby between the Madrid and the Barcelona, match that will be played before that of the Valencia, and that the interest of the team ' he' will be centered in San Mes where theteam is measured an Athletic Club that fights for the UEFA. "It is necessary to have the clear ideas and to confront the matches thinking of what we have to make and not in what has or make the other ones", the coach assured, who added that the best news this week for the team would be "a 0-2 in San mames".
Rafa Benítez highlighted the difficulty of its visit in San Mamés against a rival, as the Athletic Club, to which praised. "It is a team that has good results in house that is making it well, with aggressiveness and that it has a lot of merit with all the conditions that it crawls at level of looking for players. That demonstrates that the base work gives its fruits".
The coach also referred to the polemic by arbitration that wraps this season end. "At the end the referees give you and they remove you. That is the correct and appropriate answer we have to maintain it and point. Neither it means that I don't think it, it is simply the appropriate one. I have the conviction that the Spanish referees are very good. Another thing is that there are decisions that benefit you or harm. There are times that the reality is an and it is necessary to see it and simply to recognize it, but I have total trust in the union by arbitration".
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Press
briefing 04/16/2004
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RAFA BENÍTEZ: “IN FUNCTION OF THE RESULTS OF THIS
RUN, WE COULD HAVE FROM A FIFTY TO SEVENTY PERCENT OF POSSIBILITIES OF WINNING THE
LEAGUE"
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 Rafa Benítez has emphasized the importance of a victory next Sunday against the Real Sociedad. The coachn has pointed out that he wants “to remove him transcendency to the match if there is a negative result and to be given it in the event of
victory. If we win, the League will be thing of two and, in function of the result of the Real Madrid, we could have between a fifty and seventy percent of possibilities”. A victory that would be the seventh serial equaling the best gust in the history of the league
competition, what supposes “an incentive more” with an intention, “of lengthening it the most possible
thing. We are prepared for any adverse result because there is margin to still
fight”.
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 The objective against the donostiarras is very
clear, “to get the three points to follow leaders” in a match where it won't be Pablo
Aimar. “Now we are a good Valencia and with Pablo we would be a very good Valencia”
Rafa Benítez underlines also adding that when the Argentinean crack
is, “it is noticed and if the team works it is because his partners make an effort and they bring closer the shoulder”. On the Real Sociedad the ‘mister ' believes that it will be a complicated match against a rival “orderly, they know how to manage attack and defense
perfectly, more work and insistence and being constants require until the
end. Until the minute ninety it can win a match”.
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Press
briefing 03/05/2004
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RAFA BENÍTEZ: "WE ARRIVE TO THE MATCH OF THE DEPOR IN A GOOD MOMENT AND CONVINCED OF FIGHTING FOR THE
VICTORY"
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 Rafa Benítez has affirmed in the press room that against the Deportivoe he will carry out diverse changes in the team that played last Wednesday in Turkey. The technician has stood out that against the Deportivo ·a group of fresh players that they didn't play in Turkey will enter and, also, we recover Albelda that should be our reference in the center of the field for his push and his desires. Starting from there we will try to take advantage of to the maximum those players that will go out with all the desires of the world". This matchr has been qualified since as important by the coach "the differences they can be enlarged. We are very made aware of the importance of these three
points".
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 Against a rival, the Galician, to which more respects "for the quality of their players, for the soccer that develops and because it is directed with certain ability. It is not easy to manage players of so much level". "The Depor is a very balanced team. It has a good group game and it takes advantage of to the maximum their defensive solidity to try to win the matches" he added next. Also Rafa Benítez compared the structure of both groups, second and third in the table to which see likeness, "we have statistical very similar, we don't receive many goals and we mark many, but we arrives in a good moment, with many desires and illusion and convinced of fighting for the victory".
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Press
briefing 02/13/2004
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RAFA BENÍTEZ: "WE TAKE A VERY GOOD TRAJECTORY AND WE WANT TO MAINTAIN THAT GOOD LINE"
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 Rafa Benítez has said that he doesn't think that the match against the Real Madrid is decisive for the conclusion of the League "independently of the result, I believe that they will be fourteen days and they are many points. It will be important but not momentous. The trajectory that we take is very good and we want to maintain that good line". The coach believes that again st the Real Madrid it is a match, "to make the things that you habitually carry out and that they give good result. It is necessary to manage the match in function of each situation. I would like that it was a similar match to those of Cup, but with another result, since they were quite good but without effectiveness".
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 About the match of recent King´s cup the coach believes that "it will be good to learn things. It is necessary to reinforce that we made well that it allowed us to arrive with clarity to the contrary goal, and we should not mislead ourselves during the 90 minutes". An on the performance by referee, "it is certain that we have not been lucky in the last visits to the Bernabéu, but we trust in that the decisions don't have so much influence".
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