Martins: “Valbouena is the best player I’ve ever coached”

Olympiakos meets PAS Giannina in the 19th game of the Super League Interwetten at “G. Karaiskakis” (January 23, 7:30 p.m., NOVASPORTS PRIME, LIVE Sportish), with Pedro Martins answering fans’ questions.

Among other things, the Red-Whites coach revealed that Jose Mourinho is one of the best coaches while Mathieu Valbouena is the best player he has ever coached.

What he said in detail:

The best properties of a medium: “It’s very difficult to characterize him as the ideal 6th-place player. I think an important trait is an intellectual player who uses his mind and thinking in the game. He also has a very easy movement from one goal to another .of “It is difficult to combine all these ideal qualities in a single player.”

Who is the best coach: “It’s difficult to choose the best coach of all time because football has evolved a lot. It’s also difficult to pick among all these coaches who have done an excellent job. I would choose Calce Gerose, he fits in very well good to him.” Well. coaching and also for his development and success I would choose Jose Mourinho”

The best teams of all time: “It’s the Barcelona of the Cruyff era, Dynamo Kyiv in the 1980s and the Brazil national team in ’82”

Best player of all time: “Maradona”.

The best player to train: ““Valbouena is the best player I’ve ever coached.”

Which game will he remember forever: “The game in the Emirates with Arsenal”.

At the same time in view of the away game between Olympiacos and PAS Giannina Martins spoke to Nova’s camera:

For the match with PAS: “It’s a difficult game against a team that’s doing a great league, the numbers show that. The level of difficulty is great because we also come from bad results, we absolutely need a win to overcome this bad phase we are in. We have to win to play a good game and prove that it’s just a phase and we can get through it.”

Whether the three games in a row without a win are a coincidence: “We’re really not used to that. Olympiacos are used to very good results and good performances. However, I have faith in my players. I know we’re a good team, with quality that has a lot to offer. Every time we have it.” We reacted: “And our answer was positive. And on Sunday (January 23) we will meet the requirements of the time. I am convinced that we will master it.”

Whether he relies on children from the 2nd team for the cup game: “They are Olympiacos players that we put our trust in from the first moment because we believe in Team B’ project. Since these kids have been training with us for 15 consecutive days, Bagalianis, Xenitidis, Sourlis, “Kitsios and Mavroudis will rely on them. We believe in the worth of these kids and their talent and we’re right.”

Whether there are any problems regarding the game with PAS: “Bouchalakis is still our only problem.”

Whether any of the B-Team guys mentioned above could be a January transfer for Olympiakos: “They are already Olympiacos players and they train with us. They are here, we watch them and in general we know that they are here to support our team, especially now that we have many ongoing problems. There are players who are not yet ready.” , but there are others, such as the case of Kalogeropoulos, who has not yet been called up to the first team either through injury or because of coronavirus but will be called up immediately. Algasimi is also a new player who works well with the second team and we intend to recall him.

Marinos, Nikolas will come and work with us. “It’s a time when we have many consecutive games and all players are useful to support our team whenever needed.”

For Agibu cameras: ““Agibu has worried us about his injury but the information we have is that this is nothing serious and he will be fine very soon.”