Aleix Garcia is the leader of Míchel's Girona. He is also the total midfielder, called up by Luis de La Fuente in the latest Spanish national team list for the first time. However, in an interview given to 'Movistar Plus', a few days after visiting Montjuïc to play against Barcelona, the midfielder showed his desire to wear Blaugrana: “I would like to play for Barça. It is the club that I have followed since I was little and the one that I have always liked,” he noted.
These statements have not gone down too well in Girona. Nor to Míchel. The Girona coach assured Aleix Garcia in the preview of the Copa del Rey match against Orihuela: "he made a mistake," he said.
Míchel added that his "message" to the fans is that he hopes that "in Girona, little by little, people are only from Girona" and argued that the project started makes it "possible." "I remember a lot of when I played in Rayo's youth teams and in the games against Real Madrid there were more people celebrating their goals than ours, and I hope that doesn't happen in Girona with Barça," he said.
Asked if he would like to coach Barça, he stressed that he is in the team he wants to be in and that his head "never" thinks about the future, but is focused 100% on the present.
Girona's present passes through Orihuela, rival this Thursday in the Copa del Rey, and Míchel warned that "the differences are less when the qualifying rounds are a single match. It is a very important match," he remarked before admitting that he hopes to "make a great game, win and move on" to the next round of the KO tournament.
In this sense, he stressed that Girona must give its best version to not be "left out of a title" and a competition that the team likes "a lot." He reiterated that the Cup is "the shortest way" to win a title, as he already said before the first round match, and added that the Cup "serves for all the players to be in competition."
He reiterated that the Cup is "the shortest way" to win a title, as he already said before the first round match, and added that it is a competition that "serves for all players to be in competition."
"In LaLiga many players have played less and, for example, now Yangel has been injured and I need to see Ibra (Kébé), Jhon (Solís) and Pablo (Torre), who have to be important players. I need them to play with continuity , and the Cup gives us that possibility," he said.
For tomorrow's match, the red and white coach anticipated the starting role of young Iker Almena: "He had a great preseason and now he is playing very well with the reserve team."
