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La Porteria: Robert Moreno Reviews His Career

Interview on Betevé about the Spanish National Team, the future and the lessons learned along the way

📺 Betevé La Porteria November 2023

About this interview: Robert Moreno visits the set of La Porteria, the sports programme on Betevé (Barcelona’s public television), for an in-depth and candid conversation about his professional career. From his beginnings at Hospitalet to the Spanish National Team, through Monaco and Granada.

“It’s a position I would rather not have held. Because of the circumstances. But the opportunity arose and I accepted it. It was an incredibly difficult challenge.” — Robert Moreno, on becoming national team manager

What the interview covers

His time with the Spanish National Team: what it was like to take on the role, the complexity of the challenge and an honest reflection on what that period meant to him. Moreno analyses with perspective what he experienced, without avoiding the difficulties or the lessons he took away.

Initially he did not want the job, but with the support of those around him he ended up accepting. Spain played nine matches under his management: seven victories and two draws. “We did well. I hold on to the beautiful things I learned. It was a source of pride,” he says.

“We did well. I hold on to the beautiful things I learned. It was a source of pride.” — Robert Moreno

The future is on the bench

The interview also addresses his professional future, his time at Monaco and Granada, and his firm intention to continue coaching at international level. “I’m trying to learn everything I didn’t know how to do at the time,” Moreno explains with characteristic honesty.

An intimate portrait of the coach from Hospitalet who went on to manage the most decorated national team in the world, on his home city’s television.

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