Matías Cereceda, from the spine of descent to the return to

On Sunday, October 5, Santa Barbara achieved the promotion to the highest category, a date before the end of the Metropolitan Tournament B Championship. Matías Cereceda, former player and now coach of the campus referred to what was achieved as “The result of a process attempt that we started eight or nine months ago”. Both the first and intermediate are pointers, with the possibility of being champions.

When Mati Cereceda was interviewed, in the match for the tip against SAG on Sunday, September 28, he spoke that it is the result of a team that had to be renewed: “Many big players left and the intention of the club is to return to first with a base of young players, but live these games.” The crossing with the Polvorines team was of a very large intensity, and Gonnet’s team won 4 to 3. One of the keys to the coach was that His players were able to learn to suffer and worked the result in favor from the defensive To keep those three very important points.

If we go back a little in time, last year Cereceda lived the descent as a player. A difficult year where results were neglected and others simply did not give themselves, but the now coach of the first of Knights wanted to see Santa Barbara again in A. took the reins and with his friends in front, he took this team ahead that today already knows that he will play the metropolitan tournament A in 2026. “I try to be the same person who went out there last year as a captain, this time accompanying them from another role, trying to capture what we learned with women today, with the plus I think I know each one a little more to each one From the human, from that friendship of having played with them and that helps me touch the key from time to time when things are not going well, “ said. Cereceda also qualified with the ladies to the last two playoffs, and although it is a role that it already occupies a couple of years ago, You are learning to meet this new role towards them, and most importantly, you are enjoying it.

But not everything is roses color. And capable of this demonstrates the work behind this promoted team. The B tournament is not easy, and not from the competitive. But from the structural. “This year, taking out these last four games that we played against direct rivals, we had many potholes, many dead matches where it was not played, free dates, I think that is what takes rhythm. I think the B often does not prepare you for the A”said Cereceda. The Santa Barbara differential lies in the players who are in the selection process. “They have a touch similar to that of A and I think it is good today to have them playing so that next year they do not suffer so much that lack of rhythm that the B gives”.

Returning to A will be a challenge and 2026 will be a new beginning for the La Plata team. “Over there Santa Barbara is not full of proper names but we are going to look for the intensity to be a flag of the team, that defensive quality will always be in a game.” The coach also added that this was something that in 2024 could not achieve and had results against very bulky. With Monday’s newspaper, and in a minor category, they decided to do the fine job in that, to Being a little more robust, stronger defensively.

On Sunday, October 5, they played against Ferro, and with what was at stake the previous preparation was very important. On Tuesday, September 30, they played a friendly against the Junior team at Cenard, and without fear and with a very clear goal they received the Caballito club. “I did not want the anxiety of what happens after the game, I wanted them to enjoy it, more because it was in the club and it seems to me that the most beautiful situation there is no. I wantedMatías ended.

You could say that Matías Cereceda took out the thorn of what had to live as a captain in 2024, and with a new role he decided to take action on the matter and change his own story: From the descent as a player to the ascent as a coach. He has the possibility to continue writing the story of his club, and his personal, because Santa Barbara is once again.