Alicante
The coach of Real Sociedad, Imanol Alguacil, on the verge of beginning his journey in the Copa del Rey this season, highlighted that his team is going with the “maximum of respect” to play this Thursday against Jove Español, from San Vicente from Raspeig (Alicante), from Tercera RFEF.
Alguacil does not trust the Alicante team in the slightest, although he believes that if his team gives “their best version” they should win.
The match, which has been involved in controversy over the date of its dispute, will finally be played this Thursday and the coach of the Guipuzcoan team did not want to look for excuses, and highlighted that “the people of Valencia have had enough misfortune with the dana” to complain him by the date of the meeting.
Alguacil will enter this Thursday into the select club of coaches who have reached 300 games with Real and which now includes Benito Díaz, Toshack and Ormaetxea). “It is clear that there are many games, they are very important numbers, but we do not live from the past,” he said.
In that sense, he was asked at a press conference about his renewal, to which he responded that he has to earn it and that that means doing “what we did in the last five years.”
A first team from Real arrives at the match in the squad, there are 13 casualties and with seven players from Sanse, some young people that Alguacil knows well: “They were in the preseason and their talent does not surprise me at all. They compete very well and the year they have signed so far is very good.
Regarding Roberto Olabe's departure from the club in June 2025, Alguacil admitted that “Real Sociedad will have a hard time finding a sports director like him.”
