The coach of La Laguna Tenerife, Txus Vidorreta will leave the team after ten years in which CB Canarias has achieved the greatest successes in its history, with two Champions Leagues, a Copa del Rey final and nine appearances in the ACB play-offs.
In a press conference with the president of the club, Aniano Cabrera, Vidorreta He stated that he makes the decision convinced that this stage at the head of the club is over and that “in life you have to know when your cycle is coming to an end.”
“I saw that the project could need new faces and there is no feeling of new faces if the coach remains the same. I think I have to step aside so that the club faces a new stage with hope and a lot of enthusiasm,” declared the Bilbao coach, who thanked his team, the club and the fans for the moments shared these years.
The project could need new faces and there is no feeling of new faces if the coach remains the same
Txus Vidorreta
Although he said that he could be “wrong” with the decision, he was convinced of “what he feels” and assured that in many moments throughout the season he has felt “exhausted and exhausted to be able to begin an eleventh season.”
“Maybe I have hit my ceiling. When they asked me, we always found some way to improve. But now I think I’ve hit the ceiling. To start a new season and continue doing our thing, you need an energy that I don’t know if I would be able to find,” Vidorreta summarized.
He coach asserted that, season after season, the team has been “well above the threshold that was expected” and said he does not regret anything despite the mistakes he has made “probably many times.”
I have felt exhausted and exhausted to be able to start an eleventh season
Txus Vidorreta
For Vidorretathese last eight seasons have been “extraordinary on a sporting level and even more so on a personal level” and he leaves, he said, with the “doubt” of whether he made the right decision, but with the conviction that he wanted to “come out well” from the club.
A good “last dance”
About the last games played in the Endesa League play-off, in which the team fell in the semifinals (3-0) against Barcelonaassured that it has been a good “last dance” with “top-level” basketball, although he asserted that there have been “many seasons for history.”
“The two exits have cost a lot, perhaps the first one cost me more because I felt that that cycle was not over,” Vidorreta reflected on his first stage at the club (2015-2017) and the current one (since 2018).
The teaécnico pointed out that with the 60 years that he will turn this week (June 20) he did not want to “run out of time” to find another project with which to “grow and build again”.
Regarding a third round, Vidorreta joked that sometimes the bullfighters “cut their ponytails and then come back,” but he pointed out that 10 years are too many as a coach and that now a time is beginning in which he and the club have to be separated: “Logic indicates that we will not meet again.”. “Let rock and roll continue,” Vidorreta concluded in a few words to his team and journalists.
