Setien reveaاs the worst thîng he has seen in Barcelona that he has never seen in his life before… and he admîts : I knew I was a reserve coach

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Spaniard Kiki Setién, the former Barcelona coach, recounted the period he spent as coach of the team, which ended tragically after the resounding scandal with Barcelona’s exit from the 2019-20 Champions League quarter-finals with a 2-8 loss from Bayern Munich.

 

Setien admitted in statements to the Spanish newspaper “Mundo Deportivo” today, Thursday, August 12, that Barcelona signed him because he did not find another coach who would accept the task in the middle of the season, saying: “When I went to Barcelona, ​​I was fully aware that I was going there because they do not have any Someone else, however, you can’t not go to Barcelona and train the best players in the world.”

 

The former Real Betis coach stated that he did not expect to coach players of this level in his career, saying: “There are a lot of things that really catch your eye because you’ve never known a dressing room like this, neither in the national team nor in Atletico Madrid. It was something else and this shocked me.”

 

The atmosphere in FC Barcelona’s dressing room was so bad that Setien didn’t expect it

Setien confirmed that the atmosphere in the Barcelona dressing room was very bad, saying: “In forty years in the world of football, I have not seen a dressing room like this, the atmosphere was not happy. There are many things that you cannot control.”

 

Spanish coach Quique Setien did not want to return to Barcelona training because of Corona

The Spanish coach spoke about his last period in Barcelona after returning from stopping due to the Corona virus in the spring of 2020, stressing that he did not want to return to the team, saying: “I did not want to return, I was very afraid, there were a thousand people dying a day.”

 

Setien’s bitter experience with Barcelona made him lose interest in training

“At the moment, I don’t see myself as a coach again, I have lost all my interest in this job,” the 62-year-old coach concluded. He stressed that he rejected offers from abroad and prefers to spend his retirement period in peace.