When Maestre held his first press convention on Friday, he repeatedly returned to his two core rules – ambition and humility.

“I am right here – very removed from my household – as a result of I’m that formidable,” he added.

“I wish to be a chunk within the new constructing steps, they [London City Lionesses] are attempting to grow to be a high stage membership on the planet.”

The 39-year-old’s sense of objective is rooted in how carefully the membership’s imaginative and prescient mirrors his personal private values.

“Considered one of my very own phrases is ‘dream huge, nice realities’,” mentioned Maestre.

“The membership targets are very aligned to my particular person values in my life, so this alignment gave me confidence to attempt to use this this season to maintain constructing that basis, to dream huge within the subsequent one.”

Whereas he’s absolutely conscious of London Metropolis’s want to face alongside the elite of ladies’s soccer, he believes progress have to be rooted in humility.

“If you wish to win, step one or the primary pillar is being humble, respecting the opponent that you’ve confronted,” Maestre defined.

“We can not lose the standard imaginative and prescient this season, as a result of it will be a really robust pillar to construct and proceed constructing the foundations.

“We wish to be humble, however dreaming huge, so that is the stability that we wish.”