Alberto Riera: “Teams in the Balkans have no future – They sell players to survive”

Tips for football in the Balkans were left by Alberto Riera!

The Spanish former player and until recently her coach Olympia Ljubljanawon the championship and the cup Slovenia in his first season as head coach and in the previous days he decided to leave, with the aim of opening a new page in his coaching career.

In fact, in an interview he gave to portalinfobae.com he spoke about his experience in Slovenia, stressing that the teams in the Balkans have no future as they sell young, talented players to survive financially.

“I am ready for a stronger championship, but I have to go step by step. It might be too early to take over a Spain team, but the next step should be something in between, like teams from Belgium, Turkey, Portugal, Holland“, said initially Riera and continued on the situation in the Balkan clubs.

“Football in the Balkans has no future because the clubs are selling their young players. I talk about it all the time. There are ambitious footballers, but they need to mature to play in stronger leagues. And clubs have to sell them to survive. My view of football is different“, were, characteristically, the words of his former player Olympiakou.