伊涅斯塔：新主帅很了解我们 巴萨理念定会延续

　　New season, new coach. What are your aims and objectives this year?

　　新赛季，新教练。你今年的目标是什么？

　　Our aims, our hopes, are the same as every season: we want to try to do things the right way, to reach the end of the season with a chance of fulfilling our objectives and winning trophies. It is true that we have changed coach but our hopes and desires are the same as always, or maybe even greater. After last season, we are hungry to get back to and to carry on winning things.

　　我们每个赛季的目标和希望是一样的：准确无误地做好每件事，坚持到赛季结束前最后一分钟，然后把握机会实现目标、赢得冠军奖杯。球队确实更换了教练，但大家的希望和渴望并未改变，甚至更加强烈。上个赛季的结果让我们迫不及待地回到球场，重新赢得荣誉。

　　We don’t know much about Tito Vilanova, the new coach. You of course do. Can you define him for us?

　　对于新教练蒂托•比拉诺瓦我们还不太了解。你肯定很了解他。能不能给我们介绍一下？

　　He’s someone who has been with us for the last four years. Maybe it would be better if he defined himself than we did but from our players’ point of view he’s someone who knows us very well and we know him well too. He looks after all the smallest details. He will have a different level of responsibility now as first coach because that’s a position he did not have before, so in that sense I am sure that his way of doing things will change a bit because the demands are different. But I think that we will carry on along similar lines as before. In that sense we’re all very happy to have Tito as coach.

　　他其实过去四年以来一直跟我们在一起。让他亲自介绍或许比我们来介绍更合适。不过从球员的角度来说，我认为他非常了解我们，正如我们了解他。他总能注意到最微小的细节。作为主教练,他肩负的责任比以往更大。他以前没有做过主教练，因此，我敢说他的做事方式肯定会有一些改变，毕竟要求是不一样的。但我觉得大家遵循的路线和以前并没有不同。总之我们很高兴蒂托来做主教练。

　　So, the philosophy remains the same?

　　所以说巴萨的理念仍会延续？

　　Yes. I don’t think there will be big variations in the way that we do things. Every person, every coach, is different - they have different methods and different ways of doing things but we’re expecting something similar. I hope that’s the right approach. In any case, it won’t just be Tito’s responsibility, it will be all of our responsibility. Now more than ever the players have to show that we want to lengthen this successful era and keep winning titles. I don’t think it’s just a question of the coach.

　　是这样的。我不认为球队的比赛方式会有很大改变。每个球员、每位教练都有不同的特点，但我们有着相同的目标。我希望这是正确的方式。无论如何，这不是蒂托一个人的责任，而是大家的责任。现在，我们的球员展现出了比以往任何时候都要强烈的夺冠欲望，从而把这样辉煌时期继续下去。我认为这绝不仅仅是教练一个人的问题。

　　Is pre-season the worst time of the year for players?

　　对球员来说，赛季开始之前的这段时间是不是一年里最难熬的？

　　It’s hard. You’re starting again and you’re looking forward to games but you have to do the preparation first. What we like is competition, real matches and yet you have to wait. Pre-season is necessary in order to prepare in the best way possible for the year ahead. Pre-seasons are not what they used to be: there are tours, games, travelling. It’s the time of year you “like” the least. We’re all waiting for the season to start - that’s the bit we really like.

　　确实很艰难。你需要重新开始，期待着比赛，但你首先要做好准备工作。我们喜欢竞争，喜欢真正的比赛，但你必须耐心等待。季前备战很重要，我们要为一年的比赛做好最充分的准备。而且现在也和从前不一样了：现在我们会去其他地方比赛。这段时间确实是一年里最难称得上“喜欢”的时候。我们都在等待新赛季的开始——那才是我们真正热爱的。

　　Do you succeed in properly switching off during the summer?

　　今年夏天你休息的怎么样？

　　I try to. I think it’s good for your health. It’s good to disconnect from the day-to-day, to try different things. The tension you accumulate over the year makes an impact and so I try to switch off because I think it is necessary after a demanding year. It’s nice to be with people you haven’t seen much, relax, have a good time, see friends.

　　我尽量让自己休息，我认为这有利于健康。从循规蹈矩的生活中中脱离出来尝试做些不一样的事情，这样很好。一年里积蓄的太多紧张的情绪会影响你，所以，我会尽量休息。我觉得经过一个艰苦的赛季，这样做很有必要。见一见许久没在一起的亲人，放松地享受一段好时光，和朋友聚一聚等等。

　　Every year Barcelona successfully promote players from the youth team. You have been through that process yourself. As an established first team player now, do you have a pastoral role with the kids coming through? Can your experience help them?

　　每年巴萨都会从青年队提拔人才。你就曾亲身经历过这一过程。作为目前队里的主力球员，你会帮助他们吗？你的经验对他们有什么帮助吗？

　　I have lived that experience that they are going through, I know what the situation is, I understand what they might be thinking in their first year or their second year. You can advise them or respond to questions for them. When you come up from the youth team it is important that you feel comfortable and happy with the veterans and in that sense I think they should be happy to encounter a group of players in which many of them have been through before the same thing that they are going through now. We know what it’s like. So of course you try to help because they need that to see things clearly that maybe they would not see clearly otherwise. You can help them with the reality of their situation, guide them.

　　对于年轻球员们正在经历的，我感同身受，我也了解他们在进入一线队后的一两年时间内会有怎样的想法。我可以给他们建议，或者回答他们的问题。对于从青年队进入一队的年轻球员来说，和老球员和睦相处是非常重要的。我认为对于这些年轻球员而言，能够遇到和他们有着类似经历的老球员，是一件很开心的事。我们了解这里的情况，所以肯定会帮助他们，让他们看清球队的情况和自己的前途，并指引他们前进。

　　Is there any player we should look out for amongst those coming through?

　　这批年轻球员里有谁是我们应该特别留意的吗？

　　I think Barcelona are extremely lucky to have lots of great players. It used to be that we only seemed to bring through midfielders; now there are attackers and defenders too and that’s very positive for the club. I would highlight those that have already spent some time with us: Thiago, who has been with us a while, Cuenca, Tello, Bartra. Different positions in which the club has a safe future.

　　我认为巴萨非常幸运，拥有很多伟大的球员。以前我们似乎只能提拔优秀的中场球员，但现在我们也会有前锋和后卫队员，这对球队有很积极的意义。有些人已经与我们并肩作战了一段时间了，包括：蒂亚戈，昆卡、特略、巴尔特拉。这些不同位置的年轻球员，保证了俱乐部一个安全的未来。

　　Do you recall any advice that especially helped you when you were coming through?

　　当你刚来一线队的时候，得到了什么特别有帮助的建议吗？

　　I always got advice and people helped me a lot but I couldn’t single out one thing. It’s a long journey and there are lots of things along the way. It’s not just a case of someone saying “enjoy your football” or “train hard” or whatever. It’s more a culmination of things that when you’re young you try to absorb, understand and learn. You take good things from lots of people but in the end the key is the trust you have in yourself, the confidence you have. You now that there will be hard moments, moments when you have to battle through and put up with things. At those moments you will need real faith in yourself. In truth, real advice, real lessons, come through experience. You learn from those moments. Also, every person is different: a piece of advice that helps one player may be useless to another. I think in the end it is the journey, the experience, that marks you rather than a concrete piece of advice.

　　我总是得到建议，大家对我帮助不小，我实在无法只挑出一件事。这段经历很漫长，会碰到许多事情。这并不是某个人对你说“享受足球”或“努力训练”这么简单。这更像是一种累积的过程。趁年轻的时候，要尽量吸收、理解和学习。你会从很多人那里学到好的经验，但归根结底还是要有自信。有时候会很艰难，你必须努力克服困难，忍受成长的阵痛。在这些时候，你需要完全信任自己。事实上，真正的建议、真正的教训都是从经验中汲取的。你要从当中有所收获。另外，每个人都不同：一条建议可能帮助某位球员，但对其他人却不奏效。我觉得最终还是这段历程和经验造就了你，而不是某条具体建议。

　　You talk about faith in your ability. Have there been moments of doubt? Do we not appreciate from the outside just how hard it is, how much pressure there is?

　　你说要对自己的能力充满信心。你曾经疑过自己吗？从旁观者的角度，我们是不是很难理解成功有多难、压力有多大？

　　There are all sorts of moments, yes. The most important thing is to know how to accept those moments, to understand them and know why things are happening as they are. Just because you get called into the first team [squad] dos not mean you will play for the first team, far from it. Maybe you’ll play for a bit and then stop playing. The hard thing is to accept that when you are young. You have to accept lots of things that perhaps are not easy.

　　的确是这样，足球路上有各种各样的时刻。最重要的是要知道如何接纳它们、认识它们，知道事情为何会发生。你被招进一队并不一定就说明你能代表球队打比赛，其实还差得远。你可能会踢一段时间，然后就去坐板凳。在年轻时就能坦然接受这个事实并不容易。但尽管很多事情都不容易，你也不得不接受。

　　Is motivation even greater this seasons because of the failure to win the league and the Champions League last season?

　　因为上个赛季的联赛和欧冠的失败，你们在新的赛季是否有了更大的动力？

　　Well, that makes us want to defeat the current league champions and it makes us want to get back to the semi-finals of the Champions League again, fighting to reach the final. But we mustn’t forget that this season just gone we won titles. It is true that they were maybe not the most recognised titles or the most important titles because the league is the one that rewards the most consistent team and the Champions League is the best trophy ... so, yes, that means we want to fight for them again.

　　这让我们更渴望击败卫冕冠军，让我们更渴望重返欧冠半决赛，战斗到最后一场。但我们绝对不能忘记，刚刚结束的赛季我们仍然赢得了一些冠军。或许那不是最受认可的、或者不是最受重视的。因为西甲冠军属于表现最稳定的球队，而欧冠奖杯也是最美妙的……所以说，是的，我们渴望再次为它们而战。

　　People talk so much about passion and intensity. Do we forget about the opposite; coldness, intelligence, control?

　　人们总是谈论激情与强度。人们是否忘了，与之相反的冷静、智慧和控制同样重要？

　　I don’t think we forget about those characteristics, no. I think the most important thing is balance, having everything - people who give you tranquillity, people who give you power. Like anything in life, balance is important, both in people and in football. You’re not better because you have more power or more control; what matters is that each person makes the most of the virtues he has.

　　没有。我不认为我们忘记了这些品质。我觉得最重要的是平衡，拥有不同特质，比如让你感到平静的人，还有让你充满力量的人。就像我们生活中的任何事物一样，平衡都很重要，人和足球都是如此。你并不会因为拥有更大的力量或更好的控制而变得更强，关键是每个人要找到发挥自己能力的方法。

　　How do you maintain that control and creativity in a game that’s going at 200mph, with all the pressure and tension?

　　在压力巨大的比赛中，你如何在掌控比赛的同时，为比赛灌输无限的创造力？

　　Everyone is different. But we are used to playing with pressure, big games where everyone is watching, and when you are used to that you forget everything that surrounds the game. When you’re on the pitch you try to enjoy it and personally I don’t think about the external pressure at that point. I think about enjoying it, about inventing plays, about looking for passes, about playing well. That’s our job, our life.

　　每个人都与众不同。我们已经习惯在压力下比赛。重要的比赛意味着无数球迷的关注，当你习惯以后，就会忘记除比赛以外的所有事情。在场上就是尽量享受比赛，个人角度来讲，我不会在比赛中考虑外部压力。我想的是要去享受比赛，创造进攻机会，伺机传球，踢出漂亮的比赛。这是我们的工作，我们的生命。

　　Is your game natural or a product of work and preparation?

　　你的比赛风格是以自由发挥为主，还是努力训练和准备的成果？

　　Before the games I try to visualise what I will encounter: the opponents, what will happen in my part of the pitch, what the game will be like. I try to control the game but there is also a part of the game that is intuition, improvisation, because football is not mathematics. You have to improvise in almost every play; you can study the opponents very closely but then in a specific play the player in front of you can do exactly the opposite to what you expected. It’s intuition that makes you dribble, or seek out a pass, or see a team-mate ... you try to foresee what will happen and think before it does but there’s always a part of the game that is improvised.

　　赛前我会尽量设想自己可能遭遇的状况：对手，在我负责的中场地带会发生什么，整场比赛会是怎样等等。我会努力控制比赛。但是比赛的一部分靠的是直觉和即兴发挥的，因为足球并不是数学。几乎每个动作都需要即兴发挥；你可以十分仔细地研究对手，但是在真正的比赛中，你所面对的对手可能会做出与你预料完全相反的动作。是直觉让你盘带，寻找传球机会，或者看到队友……你会尽力预测比赛的走势，未雨绸缪，但比赛总有一部分属于即兴发挥。

　　Talking of control and creativity, how does the boot help you with that?

　　谈到掌控力与创造力，这款球鞋对你有什么帮助？

　　It’s the main tool of my trade, it’s what makes me feel comfortable on the pitch, secure when I touch the ball, when I want to dribble or make a play. It’s important to feel comfortable with the boot and I do.

　　这是我的主要装备，穿着它上场我会感到无比舒适；当我触球时，准备盘带或是传球时，它让我感到稳定；一双舒适的球鞋对球员非常重要，而我就是如此。

　　There are new colours, a new design ...

　　这款球鞋运用了新的颜色，新的设计……

　　I mentioned it to lots of people. I have loved this boot from the first day i tried it. I feel very comfortable when I put it on. I notice that with each new boot but this time it is different. I feel happy, alert, the touch is good. I like it a lot.

　　我向很多人都提到过这一点。我从第一次试穿就爱上了这双球鞋。穿上它感觉很舒服。每款新鞋都会带给我这样的感受，但这一款尤为不同。我觉得很开心，保持机警，脚感很不错。我很喜欢。

　　In your mind what is the key role of the midfielder in today’s game?

　　你认为在今天的足球比赛中，中场球员最重要的作用是什么？

　　The key with the midfield role is both vision and dominating the middle of the pitch -- the engine room of a team: we’re the ones who distribute play, the link between defence and attack. Our role is that and it’s that role that we enjoy most enjoy as a midfielder.

　　中场队员的关键作用是广阔的视野，统治中场——那里是球队的发动机：我们要负责球的支配，做好防守和进攻的衔接。中场的角色就是这样，我们非常享受自己的角色。

　　Every game you play now it seems like the opposition is set up just to defend, to spoil the game. Is it hard to stay faithful to an idea when confronted by that?

　　在你参加的每场比赛中，对手的目的似乎就是防守至上，摧毁比赛。遇到这种情况时，坚持自己的风格是不是很难？

　　The idea is fundamental in those moments when things are not coming off, when it’s hard, when you encounter a team with everyone playing deep, closing off space; teams whose only aim is to defend and maybe launch a counter-attack. For us, the challenge is overcoming that. The secret is simple: insist on what you’re doing, trust in it. We think this is the right pathway to be successful and so we follow along it. Everyone has a different way of seeing football but I think football is a game to be enjoyed and to make the fans enjoy it. Beyond results, fans want to see a team play well, not just defend. But all approaches are valid in football so it’s not a criticism. It’s just the way I see it.

　　当在比赛中遇到困难，当你遇到一个一心防守，拼命压缩空间的对手并寻求反击机会的球队，信念就成了最关键的一点。对我们来说，如何解决这个问题是一种挑战。其实秘诀很简单，就是坚持你的打法，相信你的策略。我们相信这是成功的道路，所以不曾改变风格。每个人对足球都有不同的解读，而我认为足球应该用来享受，让球迷也能沉浸其中。除了比分，球迷还想看到精彩的比赛，而不仅仅是防守。但所有战术在足球里都行得通，因此我不是在批评什么。这只是我的观点。