Miguel Ángel Ramírez has directed fifteen league games since then, with a record of five wins, five draws and five losses. We must add that of his debut in the Cup, with a defeat against Valencia. A time in which the team has evolved and has also allowed the discovery of an unknown coach in Spanish football, where he experiences his debut on a professional bench. His appearances in the press room and the messages shared on social media have reinforced the image of a different person from the profile the Gijon club was used to.
Ramírez has been open to detailing approaches even though some terms used turned against him (phrases such as “systems are living organisms” or “the roadmap changed because you do not prepare the game against one man less” went viral); He has been vindicative when it comes to combating attitudes such as bullying and has been constant when it comes to defending the team spirit over individualities.
Because he has suffered a lot of criticism in his first weeks in Gijón, especially on social media, Miguel Ángel Ramírez has made several references in recent months to the attitudes of those who hide anonymously to defame or insult online. The rojiblanco coach used his personal profile on Twitter to express his solidarity with situations such as the one experienced by Nico Williams, who temporarily closed his account after insults rained down on him for his game against Osasuna, which prevented Athletic from getting into the final of the Copa del Rey. He has also made some reference in the press room, as happened recently in Cartagena. “Let’s stop cracking; we are creating disunity all day. Then we united against the Russian war. We are all hypocrites because we generate violence in our day-to-day lives,” he said.
Interested in leadership and personal motivation, he trained in coaching and has had Imanol Ibarrondo as one of his references since long before he arrived at Sporting. At Gijón, he has reunited with him again since the Basque “coach” visited Mareo in February as part of his collaboration with the Orlegi Group. Since Miguel Ángel Ramírez arrived at Sporting, he has shared ten messages from Ibarrondo that summarize his idea for life and football. They are the following:
