Nobody believes that Ruben Torrecilla can redirect the terrible situation of Hercules. Everyone respects and praises his work, his values, his personal involvement, but there is no longer a single figure within the entity who sees in him a solution. That's why they look for her tirelessly while trying to convey to the coach (and, in addition, to his locker room) a serenity that is worth making bearable the time necessary to obtain the commitment of those who today are considering whether to take on the challenge of returning the credit of being a self-proclaimed contender for promotion with which the club began the season.
He has a first and last name. Actually, first name, last name and nickname. He has had it, moreover, for years, since Javier Portillothen sports director of the Alicante team, opted for Lluís Planagumà in the last screening, to which the Catalan arrived alongside the other candidate. Three times later, the “discarded” has crossed paths with the person who did not choose him and in all of them he came out on top: two “play-off” matches and a first round of the Copa del Rey, two with Rico Pérez as the stage.
Since that summer of 2018, time has passed and The cache of the “chosen one” has greatly improved. It is far above what a First Federation team can afford, no matter how Hercules it may be. But the economic one is not the only obstacle, there is another difficult one to overcome and that has to do with the professional riskwith the future employment consequences that may result from not achieving the objective outside of professional football. In the middle of that path are now those two parties, which have maintained really serious contacts since Vicente Parras He aired in Pinilla all the football deficiencies of the blue and white approach in just 35 minutes.
Paco Peña and the president of Hércules, Carlos Parodi, together in the Pinilla box, witnessing the team's fourth defeat. / VISUAL CLEAR / LOF
Turret, always vehement, apparently self-confidentalthough increasingly less convincing, believes (and truly believes it) that what is happening to his team is temporary, that it will be resolved when the «plague of injuries» that it is diminishing the team, that the defeats are a consequence of “small details” that, for the moment, never fall on the side of Hercules.
He repeats it every press conference, in the somewhat more cautious ones prior to the meetings and in the more delirious (and difficult to share) ones that he usually offers after the meetings. defeats. Four in the first six days. And it is there, precisely in the quantity, where the speech is diluted.
Against the evidence…statistics
The category jump has stuck to Rubén Torrecilla. Beyond tactical considerations, the mathematics reveals a still photo that is very ugly to look at. The still blue and white coach has lost 50% of the matches he has coached to date in the third national category with the Alicante team: 22 of the 45 have ended without points for him.
Against Atlético Madrileño he will reach 81 official duels at the head of the SAD first team owned by the Ortiz family. The information is something to celebrate coming from where you come from with the current administrator at the helm. The owner has trusted “Rubén” until the end, until he has stayed without arguments, until the weight of statistics has finished bending his arm.
Data on Rubén Torrecilla as coach of Hércules CF. / P. R.
The affections are heavy, and the gratitude for what has been achieved, too. No matter how it happened or the turbulence that had to be experienced, the task was completed successfully and there was finally something to celebrate after the pile of disappointments suffered. However, all cycles have a beginning, a middle and a outcomeand that of the Jarandilla de la Vera technician is about to close.
What happens this Friday against the leader, who comes to the event on a high – with three wins in a row after having scored seven goals and only conceded one – is almost the least important because the feeling is that the time has come to try another formulaanother method, one more adjusted to the reality of the objective and the investment made, which will shoot up to the inadvisable If finally the first option (the one that enjoys unanimity in the sports commission) accepts the challenge of reviving a Hercules who is currently on the canvas, last classified, repeating the same mistakes and exhibiting identical shortcomings since he left Second RFEF.
Maybe they already had them there, but the rivals they punished less the failures because the majority had more desire to win than resources to spend on differential players. Hercules is juggling so that the team does not end up collapsing, so that the still coach can continue exercising in the friendliest work environment possibleand knowing that, at this point, the favor of the stands is lost because the only thing that is valid to calm the waters (and the dissidence built over several decades of failures on multiple scales) are triumphs. The bets do not give Hercules many options to overcome Atleti B, but even if they end up turning around, there is a high probability that the outcome has already been written.
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