There are technicians who leave a legacy in the teams in which they have worked that transcends beyond the results obtained at that stage. In addition to their successes, the Selection of Vicente del Bosque or Guardiola’s Barça, in addition to the titles, will always be remembered for their style, for how they got them. And the Compos of these last five years will always be remembered as the Compos de Iago, the Compos that played and played with his idea either in Calabagueiros, in As Eiroas or in Riazor. The Compos that fought and fought for promotion to Second B until he achieved it on July 25, 2020 in Balaídos true to a style and proposal.
It is not at all easy to bet on touch and possession football, to combine and touch and touch when you have to face matches in the Third Division in which the pitch often invites a rougher and more practical football. But Yago Iglesias has his ideology, and with him he has gone to death. Each press conference of the opposing coaches, both the past seasons in Third Division and this one in Second B, offered evaluations such as “it is very difficult to take the ball from this Compos” or “the Compostela proposal is to be praised”, without it being infrequent to hear “it is the team that best practices football in the category, it is a pleasure to do the preliminary analysis of the preparation of the match when you face Compostela”. All this is the credit of Mr. Santiago Iglesias Estepa (Palmeira, October 6, 1982), and that the June 21, 2016, he became the youngest coach in history to coach SD Compostela. This May 14, he decided to communicate that he was leaving “his Compos”, his footballing creature, which he has known how to model and revalue, put on everyone’s lips both at the regional and national level.
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It is very true that football often does not understand reciprocities or proportionality when it comes to giving you back what you have earned, but in this case everything indicates that Yago Iglesias will sooner rather than later find a new destination to continue his career as a coach. In his farewell he made it clear that “I have nothing, I’m going home”, but it is not difficult to venture that the phone will soon ring.
At the farewell press conference that he offered together with the president Antonio QuinteiroBoth closed it with a heartfelt hug and mutual gratitude, leaving the door open for a reunion. Hopefully, in the not too distant future, the Vero Boquete bench will once again have Yago Iglesias as a restless tenant to return to directing su Compos. Hopefully in a higher category, the one that Club and coach deserve.
Good luck Iago.
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