Gerardo Martino Tata miss Barcelona training to attend his father's funeral

Argentine Gerardo Tata Martino artistic director of Barcelona on Thursday missed exercise of the team where he traveled to his country to attend the funeral of his father, who passed away on Tuesday.

The Tata Martino had learned the news of his father's death day, one day before the Barcelona match against Ajax in the first round of the group stage in the Champions League, but he decided to stay to lead the match, which ended in victory for the Catalan 4 - zero.

Coach Jorge Bautaso led the exercise in the second day, which saw undergo defender Gerard Pique to physiotherapy sessions to recover from the overload on the right thigh muscle.

The commander Carles Puyol fought aspect of the exercises while Jordi Alba breaks the process of recovering from the injury he suffered in front of Seville earlier this week.

On the other hand, a spokesman for the Catalan club to the German news agency (d. B. A) On Friday, said that they “expected Martino to arrive in a timely manner and leads the team from the technical area."

He coach traveled, who on Wednesday began his career in the Champions League win over Ajax 4 / zero, on a private jet the Catalan club president Sandro Rosell provided him.

And Gerardo Martino knew the news of the death before the press conference that preceded the match Ajax, and is decided to stay in Barcelona and the leadership team, which easily beat his Dutch counterpart in a match, witnessed a record Lionel Messi hat-trick "hat-trick".

Martino arrived yesterday morning at Ezeiza airport, where he was received by one of his daughters. From there he traveled about 300 miles to Rosario to attend the funeral of his father.

Gerardo Martino avoids talking about Messi and Valdes... And praises the performance of Iniesta

Spanish Barcelona coach, Gerardo "Tata" Martino expressed on Wednesday satisfaction with the victory achieved by the team against Ajax Amsterdam 4-0 at home, although he expressed concern of the team's performance in the first half of the match.

Martino Said, who will travel tomorrow to his country Argentina to attend the funeral of his father, "I did not like the performance in the first half, especially in passing of the ball, but the second half was better, we were able in which control more, in total, the team performed well, but not impressive, and eventually we achieved deserved victory.”

It seemed that Martino insisted to look for alternatives for the team and not a change in his game, stating "from the years we see Barcelona play longitudinal balls in period of Rafa Marquez, we have to look for alternatives but that does not mean a change in how to play, but we will continue to search for those alternatives.”

Argentine coach Gerardo Martino said that the La Liga champions "in the second half succeeded in correcting the mistakes and play better and understand what is missing," saying this as an important step forward.

Martino did not want to in the allocation of praise for the 
Argentine Lionel Messi, who scored three goals in the game and goalkeeper Victor Valdes who saved a penalty in the game, saying "Barcelona is full of inimitable individual skills. This team is full of stars, it is natural that one of them highlights. Important that we have a team together allows those skills to emerge better. "

He stressed, "I do not think at all, even if the team has the best player in the world, that the team depends only on this player to achieve the championship title."

Gerardo Martino praised international midfielder Andres Iniesta, and refused to hand waving that the descent of Xavi Hernandez in the second half instead of Cesc Fabregas is granted Barça equilibrium appropriate to score three goals, "I liked Iniesta, but I do not want to talk too much about his performance, which improves dramatically to become the object of "he added," Xavi performed as good as Fabregas, but the team as a whole was good in the second half to happen difference.”

And Barcelona is expected to replace in the next round away to Celtic, who lost to AC Milan two straight nights.