Tito Villanova's interview with El Mundo Dep.

by BarrileteCosmico Wed Jul 27, 2011 4:30 am

http://www.totalbarca.com/2011/interviews/tito-vilanova-the-task-is-to-keep-winning/#more-83399

A very good read on a range of subjects.

Some takeaways:

Interesting that the very first thing that Tito says about Sanchez is that "he worked with Bielsa", I remember an interview 3 years ago in which Pep said Bielsa was one of those managers he 'followed' and it seems that this was taken into account when selecting him due to the similarity in style.
I assume Tito's word on Bojan is the same as Pep's, and that's a very promising outlook he gives.
Polemic answer "The greatest compliment this team received was in Madrid when we played
the league game at the Bernabeu, when such a great club and a coach who
has won [many titles] modified the turf conditions. Before playing that
game I had the feeling that we were going to win the League."
Tito mentions 5 players in his cadete team that he thought would be cracks, including messi, pique and cesc, I wonder who the other 2 were.
Liked this line a lot "The youth ranks have not taken the first team style, is the first team that has taken the style of youth ranks."