As if football or sports were mathematics, the numbers brought together two strong personalities, but with great adventurous capacity. Thus, after last year’s disappointment, falling just short of promotion, the owner of the CD Castellónthe famous bettor and analyst Haralabos Voulgarisconvention a Dick Schreuder to join your project. “I loved the team, the atmosphere of the public, the training fields… and I wanted to help the club take another step,” Schreuder tells EL MUNDO.
Schreuder came from ascending to the Eredivisie to the modest PEC Zwolle with unprecedented offensive football. Before, he had only coached an English team in the fifth division, replacing Edgar Davids, and had been an assistant to several teams around the globe. He was even the brother of his own brother, Alfred in it Hoffenheim German. “It’s not very common in Holland because they think it’s very risky,” he explains about his sports bet.
So, Voulgaris A Canadian professional bettor of Greek origin, who amassed his fortune making predictions, decided, pardon the redundancy, to bet on him. The owner of Castellón since 2022, who belonged to the Dallas Mavericks discipline as Director of Data and Development between 2018 and 2021, saw a winning horse in Schreuder. At the moment, he is at the head of the race.
He CD Castellón It is the highest scoring team in the five main categories of Spanish football with 34 goals in 13 games. The people of Castellón surpass the next one, the Llanera of Tercera RFEF, in a goal. The podium is completed by Girona of Michel With 31, leader of LaLiga EA Sports. These numbers have allowed them to add 9 victories in the last 10 games. “The team is doing well, we have to enjoy the moment,” he says. Schreuder. Take care of the famous positive dynamics that coaches like so much in football.
Whether it was good or bad, the Dutch coach was not going to change his playing philosophy because “it’s what I believe in,” he says. “I told the footballers: ‘Don’t be afraid, if we score more goals than the rival, we will win,'” he says. And that’s what they are doing. But it’s not just the goals, it’s also the pressure on the opponent’s field and the recovery. According to him he reveals Schreuder, his team barely takes five passes from the opponent to recover the ball, also the leader in that statistic in Spanish football, and triples the average of the category with the highest number of passes in the opponent’s area. They don’t play offensively, they harass their rivals.