Maxi Garreta, the Argentine who will command Belgium at the Indoor World Cup

Maximiliano Garreta He lives several years ago in Europe, almost as many as those in charge of the Belgian Indoor track team and will have the difficult task of commanding it in the World Cup in search of skipping its limitations to arrive at a place that they could not never arrive.
Although the most relevant of the professional career of Maxi is to be in the prelude to his second World Cup as a coach, It is worth remembering the way before this challenge: “In the selected Indoor of Belgium Ladies I am since 2018I entered as an assistant because the coach was a person I knew and liked the idea of working with me, so I started as an assistant video and then, in 2019, he left and proposed me to grab the team, ”he began by telling guidance of the ladies.
“I started with the European Cup toin Belarus, where unfortunately we descended, it was my first tournament, a lot of new things, very beautiful but new because it was not just going there and trying not to put goals, but we tried to play and we did it equally with everyone The teams, There are times when things happen well and other times when they don’t work”
After that sports mishap, Garreta did not give up and – convenient for his knowledge to face him – thought about the next step to give: “We went to play Europe B to Spain in 2021, we won and ascend back to the European Cup to that was the main objective and then we played the World Cupfirst experience at that level because not even as a player I was lucky enough to do it. “
The enthusiast ended the 2023 World Cup was what Belgium has a present in which it is allowed to dream even further: “We did a job to see the young people, we were present in the local tournament to try to discover new talented players who are not part of the exterior selected. The problem is that when they are in the lawn circuit there are many permits to come and sometimes the sub-20 coaches of the U-19 are not very open to change OA that they are part because they take the risk of being injured, normal things but well, I believe that a mixture, when complementing, is important for the two disciplines, especially the Indoor for the Outdoor”Garreta conjectured.
Within that scouting context, Maximilian found benefits that served to improve preparation. “This year I was lucky to have 25 players for 12 places, before we had 16, 18 and they were not always the best, here we have a good group, with young people who have a lot of futurethat today are not part for the World Cup but that in two years will be exceptional players. ”
Also, within what it means to participate in a World Cup, it did not go unnoticed by having an Argentine team disputing the top event of the Indoor hockey: “Obviously one is happy, it gives it pleasure to see the Argentine kids qualify as they were classifiedbecause the United States was always difficult, especially in the Pan American Cup. I have seen them in the last World Cup, I have chatted with Massimo (Lanzano) and Willy (Schickendantz), We have crossed several times and the truth is that it is nice”
And, in addition, he added: “For me it is a pride that Argentina is represented by this team, for the second time consecutive, and especially for this team that plays well. I have seen him play, he plays well, he has good players and then he has that claw that other teams do not have and that is good. I feel that they are prepared to make a good tournament, it is a good team and they already have the experience and that will help them to be competitive”He emphasized Maxi.
Despite having achieved something transcendental, the last World Cup, the coach who defends Belgium’s colors today, had a bittersweet quota for what happened: “The fifth place was something historical for the Belgians, but with a bit bitter taste because we lost those quarterfinals with South Africa for 2 to 1 and felt that we could have gone a little further. Today, I do not focus on that fifth place, the expectations are great, the goal is to pass the area and then each party is a final and at that time, if we are in that instance, we will think how we are going to do and what is what it is that we are going to plan in the system to, perhaps, to have better results “
Going clean, and to close, These are Belgium’s objectives in Ladies for the 2025 World Cup: “Of course, one would love to play the semifinal, But to get to that we must go stage by stage and then as we talked to the girls, as we said at the meeting, the goal is to pass the area and then we will get into the following. We have an area that is quite strong with the United States and the Czech Republic and Croatia, so no encounter is easy, ”Maximiliano sealed.