Looking back and listening to others who have gone through the same is always useful. Therefore, Tito Ramallo, Maikel Naujoks and Álvaro Queijeiro are authorized voices to talk about the factory and advise the promotion of this season that seeks promotion to first RFEF.
Tito Ramallo (A Coruña, 1969) is the coach with more games in the history of the blue and white subsidiary. Understand that the team has been a very good situation after the last day and that, if you sign its classification for playoffs, everything is possible. “They are unpredictable. Those who enter at the last minute are no less favorite than those that have been above,” he says.
“I disputed eight between one thing and one, and the only thing I can tell you is that they enjoy it, that they do not have excessive pressure. Since they are a subsidiary and this makes you give up much better in moments of competitive anxiety. If they are able to that, a subsidiary has options to enter the playoffs strongly”, Adds the technician.
His most successful moment with the manufacture was between 2006 and 2008, when he achieved ascent to second B and was classified for the playoff to Second. “We had an extraordinary template of players who later during consecutive seasons paid off the Deportivo: Piscu, Álex Bergantiños, Pita, Lassad, Laure, Iván Carril, Chapi, Fabricio… In a subsidiary, the key is the players. The results go to the background, the important thing is that they show that they have competitive capacity for higher challenges, ”he reflects.
He also gives his opinion on which players he sees with more options to upload to the first team. “I think those who had to jump have already done it. Now the one who is a little more advanced is Alberto, for having been there, or Kevin, who has a little more route. Then there are very interesting others such as Adrián Guerrero, Pablo García or Manu Ferreiro. You have to give them a little time”, He points out.
In the nineties the striker said Maikel Naujoks (Iserlohn, Germany, 1976), which was part of a successful stage of the manufacture between 1995 and 1998. “We had a team. Viqueira, David and Cascallar … Above all, but there were also Padín, San Román, Aira … I could say them allbecause we were a very compensated team. What lacked one, had another partner, ”he recalls.
In the first of those seasons they stayed at the doors of the playoff and in the third they did not have too many options in what was then a league, but in the second they touched him.
“It was the year of Córdoba, right? I believe that all the players of that time have that thorn stuck of not being able to achieve promotion to secondbecause we had everything in favor. With a victory we would have promoted, but we lost 0-1 in Riazor despite having a lot of occasions. I would say that we were to have won 1-4 the previous week against 15,000 spectators, ”he recalls.
He believes that for the current manufacture it would be an advantage to play in Riazor, as shown in 2-0 against the compostela and 3-0 against Pontevedra of this same season. “Having quality players, it will surely be higher than the opponent. It does not guarantee you victory, but it expands possibilities. They are people who are physically well and are good technically, so the bigger the field, the better. The opponent may have more expert, but more veteran and less accustomed people to such a field, ”says the now technician of Sporting Meicende.
The most recent
For its part, Álvaro Queijeiro (A Coruña, 1993) represents that factory that in 2017 achieved promotion to Second B and a year later played another playoff in the upper category.
“We had an equipazo, well balanced in all the lines. It was a mixture of very young players with others with more experience,” he explains.
Understand that both in Third and Second B had “the best team in the category”, with outstanding players such as FRancis Uzoho, Hugo Rama, ISma Diaz, Edu Exposito, Pinchi, etc. and that the fact of not being able to ascend by the decrease of the Dépor to Second was counterproductive.
Finally, he dedicates a few words to this year’s team in case they add and meet the goal. “Let them remain the same. Getting to a playoff is the work of a whole year and you are not there by chance. That do not change the way of working or facing the parties. They will really want to play, but have calm and enjoy the moment, ”he concludes.
