Lotina: Football Is 80% Work, 20% Talent

Depor are on a fantastic winning run, but Lotina, in typical parsimonious fashion, won't count his chickens.

"We must win and win - there's no other way," he muttered.

"About 80% of success - although footballers will say otherwise - is work, and only 20% is talent. That's what life has taught me.

"Dreaming is all well and good, but work is required in order to fulfil dreams. Those in the cloubs do not succeed."

As the ex-Real Sociedad boss explained, "The situation is that we're in the Intertoto Cup, are close to the UEFA Cup - difficult though it may be - and there's even a very difficult possibility of the Champions League.

"But then there's the chance to end with nothing, even the Intertoto Cup. So, we're dreaming, but we need to work."

Depor's run-in comprises two home and two away games, with the first of these being a visit to Zaragoza.

"I respect all teams," he said, dismissing the prospect that the relegation-threatened Aragonese will be easy.

"All I know is that they had great players and in September pople thought they'd be top."

Transer Issues

Among the current successful crop at the Riazor are Luis Filipe, Angel Lafita - on a pseudo-loan deal - and on-loan Christian Wilhelmsson.

Lotina said, "On the subject of Filipe we don't have any doubt, and regarding Lafita the problem is that Zaragoza have a repurchase option that we can't buy out, although we'd like to because he's made great progress and can do even more."

"Wilhelmsson is harder still because we'd need to go for a full transfer - nothing has been decided with him," he added of the Nantes man.

He also added that there would be no way that Fabricio Coloccini would leave on a cut-price deal.


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