Gallardo making instant positive impact with Leeds U21s

Football
9 Mar 2023 • 2:43 PM MYT
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Leeds United Under-21s coach Paco Gallardo's start to life at the club has been seamless.

The Whites have now won two matches under the Spanish coach, beating Southampton and Derby County Under-21s.

Gallardo has been working with the Leeds youth setup since being appointed as a development coach back in November

Paco is a great coach," Michal Pujdak, his assistant, stated per Leeds Live.

He's coached in the second league in Spain and he's got vast experience in the game as a coach and technical director.

Our relationship is great and I'm learning from him, we're bouncing off each other. I've been at the club a long time and I've always been given a lot of responsibility so it feels like Paco is exactly that person who trusts me to do the job. It's great to work from him.

Every coach is different, it's difficult to put a finger on [how he differs from Michael Skubala]. Obviously with his Spanish background there is a lot of emphasis on being intelligent with the ball and without the ball.

We're trying to help the lads understand how you can manipulate games and for example today, you've seen that towards the end of the game [against Derby], when we were leading, we wanted to see the game out and be intelligent but there was a good clear opportunity to go and attack, we still want to do that.

It's great to be able to work with coaches with different mentalities because it helps us all develop in different contexts."