The previous one of the Pro League under the gaze of the DT of the lions and the lions

Beginning of a new stage for the Argentine Women’s and Male Hockey National Team. The PRO League 2024/2025 It will be the renewed stage in Santiago del Estero that will offer the official debut of the year for the two combined albicelestes. In the anteroom, Fernando Ferrara, DT of the Lasonas, and Lucas Rey, DT of the Lions, dialogue with AM850 Hockey.

The search to consolidate the best team for Ferrara

“We are looking from the tactical, continue developing the new game system. Work with ball and no ball, especially with emphasis on the defense of the area. Then there is the detail of the corners, which for us is very important ”Ferrara started. The coach who obtained the Olympic bronze in Paris 2024 commented on the planning of a year that will have as its main objective, the Copa América in Montevideo in the middle of the year that gives a quota to the 2026 World Cup.

“We have a large group of players in Europe and others in the country. In this window we decided to take to the team’s core, plus some that were not in the first part. We want to delineate what is going to be the most important competition of the year, giving all possibilities and bringing the best team ”Fernando described. And about the type of player looking for the Argentine shirt explained: “It must have, beyond the physical conditions, from the technical something that highlights and that makes it a selection player and not only of the club. Have very clear values. The strong mind about what it means to give everything for the country, which is always ahead. Give 110% of what is required because competition is very high. ”

The Lionesses will play with Belgium after the Bronze match in the Olympic event last year and with Australia, with whom they shared a group in that competition and matched 3 to 3 in the group stage.

King and the dream of being among the four best in the world

“Two important competences are coming to us. There will be a mixture of equipment between experience and youth again. There are players who are going to debut, there are some who continue adding minutes. There are boys who did not have to play the previous proare that are incorporated, who have to aggiorn of everything we were chatting. Many things were turning them into training and we are fine. But we believe that the roof of this team is still very high, that we lack a lot and is to get, go up step by step and be closer and closer to that top 4 that is where we dream of being ”Lucas Rey declared. The coach of the lions with short steps and large desires seeks to take the lions to what they were when he was a player, one of the best on the planet.

The Argentine team made a tour with friendlies before the Visitor Devils in the middle of the preseason to start shooting. “We try to generate a physical load, a technical load and at the same time compete with Chile. Obviously, competition with them generated some frustration, some intolerance and emotional aspects that we had to work. The unpairmed error and a lot of things began to appear. But, we believe that we fulfilled the objective, that the group carried out and could overcome it and by far, so we are happy ”the Turk said.

To close, Rey gave his perception of what he would like his led to represent on the court. “The first thing I try to convey to the boys is passion. We are defending the prettiest shirt in the world. And passion that cannot only be overturned. Passion that works in the week, on a day -to -day basis and in training. Obviously, accompanied to that passion that the Argentine already brings, then you have the technical part, the tactical part. That are very important and that we work them daily together with the emotional part ”said. And ended: “What is generated involuntarily on the player is a contagious effect that is being given. That is what we intend of them. Always go to more, always add something different. Be technical, be tactical, be physical, be emotional. In the percentage you can on that day, because one is not always 100%. ”