Jesus Garcia Tena interview (translated)

Jesus Garcia Tena (Terrace, 1990) has for some years trying their luck in football outside Spain. After a stint in clubs like Espanyol, Sabadell and Terrassa, crossed the Mediterranean to call at Juventus, who gave it to the Series C Cuneo Italy during the 2011/12 season. Last summer came to Livingston FC , ​​joining the ranks of the Scottish club called 'deadline day' (day market close). In British football we could talk to the young Catalan defender, who seems to have settled in Gareth Evans plans and acknowledge to be experiencing one of the highlights of his career on its way through the Scottish First Division.

Q: Some of our readers do not know the Livingston, what could we say about the club?

R: Livingston was a major club in the Scottish first division, until it came down administrative issues. Right now they are making a strong bid for young people and good football, fixing a lot in the Spanish game model and want to play football and delight people from seeking a result.

Q: Despite your youth, you've gone through several teams from different countries, is hard to start from scratch with each club?

A: It always takes a fresh start in all the clubs, meeting new people, adapting to the team, to the language. But I take it as a challenge, a little step to take to reach the goal I have in mind.

Q: From your experience, what has been the club where you felt most at home, where maybe you have tried?

A: It may be here in Livingston, where I'm feeling more loved and more comfortable. I feel like I'm important to the team and I have a lot of support, both from peers and coaches and the public. But I can not forget any of my other clubs because each've had nice moments and beautiful people I have met. Not everything always goes well, but you are left with people and especially friends wherever you go.

Q: Do you feel totally adapted to your life in Scotland?

A: It is difficult to get from Spain and Italy and adapt to Scotland, especially for the climate, but little by little I am adapting well to the climate and lifestyle Scotsman, which is very different to the Spanish model!

Q: After your beginnings in Spain, played in the Italian game where you commented that his game was more physical than the Spanish, how about Scottish football, it is yet? Do as physical as some say?

A: Actually, yes it is quite physical Scottish football, but I still expected more radical. I think the Italian game is harder than the Scot, but it is a lot faster, faster than the Spanish and Italian football. The game is much faster and there are no breaks, no time control of game and very fast searches of goal, sometimes too fast.

Q: What do you expect from your visit to Scotland, springboard to another league or would like to follow several years?

A: Right now I just do my best in Livingston, and try to lead the team as high as possible. We continue to believe in the ascent. And that has to come to end of the season will be welcomed, not rejected the idea of ​​staying in Scottish football, but I've always been attracted to English football.

Q: Do any feature or difference of Scottish football compared to other leagues you know, something that makes you "special"?

A: Maybe the fact that any team can win. Lots of equality between teams, and what I have said, the speed is the game here.

Q: Fichaste on the last day of the market last summer, how did you live? Was there more options than the Livi ?

A: The truth is we did not go very well be waiting until the last day to decide where to go or to play for a team. I guess all the players who have been in this same situation should think the same, and that is not a very comfortable situation. He had several options, both Italy and Spain, but I thought this could be a very good opportunity to take the final leap, and we are working on it.

Q: When you signed, the Rangers scandal was in full swing, what do you think it happened? Do you think that in Spain or Italy could pass something?

A: In Spain has much respect for football clubs, and are sometimes treated with a bit of favoritism, which in Italy happens less because there are teams who take away the points in the league competition if not paid monthly. Sounds good to take action as well, and I do not think football clubs may be exempted from paying what they owe. I lived as a player and is very difficult to play without pay.

Q: What about the reform of Scottish football that has arisen recently, what is your opinion?

A: Well, I think it may be a good choice, never played in a league with only ten teams and in which you play four times against each team. It can be a good solution to improve the level of Scottish football.

Q: Was it difficult to start playing, but lately you are entering frequently in the alignments of Gareth Evans, what balance beams so far this season?

A: I had trouble at first with the transfer and communicate with peers, especially when organizing the defense played, etc.. But I adapted quickly and now the truth is that we took a good run and I'm playing one of my best seasons. Maybe by playing in different leagues and have matured a bit as a player is still one of the best seasons since that game at the professional level.

Q: We have seen that both side can play as central, what position are you most comfortable?

A: My position is that of usual central is where I feel most at home, I can be more involved in the construction of the game, but would play in any position as long as play and add minutes. I think it's good for a player to play in various locales and be versatile.

Q: The Livingston is in the middle of the table with almost identical numbers at home and abroad. Morton, Thistle and Dunfermline are fighting for promotion, do you see them able engancharos?

A: In recent weeks we have faced competition leaders and we have shown we can fight one on one with them, so I think we can get hooked to them and to fight to the last minute upgrade options.

Q: Do you often see the SPL? Do you sympathize with any team?

R: I do not follow much the SPL, ground see the biggest matches as Celtic, Hearts, Hibernian ... but I have a lot of trouble following the Spanish league and Juve. I do not miss the Juve game and every day I look at the Spanish sports press. Although it is difficult not to find out what happens in a country that has so much football and their rivalry.

Q. Any goal, football or personal mark for 2013?

A: The objective is very clear, try to get as high as I can, try to play as high as possible, whether in Scotland, England, Spain ... I wish I could fulfill the dream I've been struggling for so long.

Q: The last. Be given the possibility, is opening the doors to a future return to Spain?

R: How do I close the door? Nowhere is live and in Spain, and nowhere is at home with family, friends and the people you love. And as has been shown in recent years, the Spanish league is one of the strongest, but the strongest of all. So it's clear that I'll always want to come home and be able to prove myself in Spanish football.

Finally, thank you is interested in British football players who are out of Spain as a lower level. Always good to have people who care for us and it is an honor for me to answer this interview. Greetings to all.


From # BTCO continue, even more so, the steps of Livingston and Jesus Garcia Tena to the season could well be a return to the Scottish Premier League club West Lothian.

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