Especially when you have, in the USA, a west side, an east side, it is very important because right now the travel is long…. I love because it is very interesting for the fans, for the supporters. “I love this rule here-I love this rule, the playoffs,” he says. That includes a playoff system that he thinks is fantastic.
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Torrent is keenly aware that he is in America, and he has chosen to embrace the quirks of the league and the country rather than rebel against them. He attempts a finger roll with an imaginary basketball, imitating the legendary player. J is a major reason Torrent loves the NBA. When I tell him I’m a Sixers fan, and talk turns to Julius Erving, Torrent lets out a long sigh and clutches his chest with his right hand. The only time Torrent really, truly gets worked up is when he starts talking about basketball. He doesn’t appear frustrated by the league or the challenges and learning curve that comes with moving from the juggernaut that is Manchester City to MLS. Torrent brings a marathon mentality to the process that allows him to deal with his side’s struggles.
With the playoffs looming, he preaches a long-term outlook as he adjusts to the league and his team acclimates to him. Injuries and international call-ups devastated the team, which has taken only seven points in their last eight games. The club seemed to be not just humming along under his care but revving up for the postseason. “I decide to spend the next few years here in New York.”Īfter Torrent took over for Vieira in late June, NYCFC won five of their first six games. I decided to come here because I thought we have a good team, a strong team (that) is able to play well.” Pep normally would (watch) 50 percent of the games…. “Especially our team-the New York City Football Club-because we have interest about that. “I have information because in Manchester, normally we watch many, many games,” he says. Torrent said that he and Guardiola would watch NYCFC matches from England as they kept tabs on the team. He was familiar with NYCFC, as well, because of the link to the mother club in Manchester both are owned by City Football Group. In other words, though he knows what it’s like to work for Europe’s biggest clubs, he has experience at all levels, and so his stop in New York is not necessarily out of character. These teams, with their high expectations and brimming trophy cases, are glamorous clubs that stand in contrast to the teams he has managed himself, in Spain’s lower divisions. Even his predecessor at NYCFC, Patrick Vieira, struggled before finding his stride and eventually doing well enough to earn himself a job in Ligue 1 with Nice.Ĭoming in mid-season certainly wasn’t easy for Torrent, who had been Guardiola’s deputy since the two came together at Barcelona B, in the mid-aughts, and continued their work with Barcelona’s first team before moving on to Bayern Munich and then Manchester City. “Soccer is soccer,” he says, seemingly unaware that this league has a record of tripping up foreign coaches upon their arrival. Now in his third month since leaving Manchester City as an assistant under Pep Guardiola, Torrent talks about his transition to a new league as though it is completely natural. The big expanse of green here in Orangeburg is perhaps the closest link to those previous stops in the coach’s past.
Now he is coaching a team in MLS that plays in a baseball stadium in America’s largest city. The 56-year old’s coaching career has taken him to all levels of the sport in Europe. Torrent is in his element on the training field.
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