Gareca: "I love my country, but I have a contract until 2021"

Ricardo Gareca has left Happy America's Cup with his Peru. He was a finalist after 44 years without being in this instance and ended up being 1-1 against Brazil, who ended up winning 3-1. The ex-DT of the Workshops recognized the champion and avoided getting into controversy with the judges' performance and the application of the VAR.

In addition, he stopped any chance to lead the Argentine national team.

"I have a lot of respect for my country, I love my country, but I have a contract with a country that has given me everything and, beyond any situation that may arise "I'm used to respecting contracts." 2021. That's the commitment I've made, Gareca said.

"When we come to this stage, we want to win, Brazil is a good champion", launched "El Flaco", shortly after the last match played in Maracana. "I have nothing to blame my players, we had to go to 1 for 1. We had a good cut," added Gareca.

On the referees and the var

"I do not think about referees, everything is done to improve, not to make it worse, we have to review what went wrong, what was done well," concluded the coach. from Peru, who waited for a call from AFA before renewing his contract. to lead the Argentinian team, something that never happened.

Then, during a press conference, he deepened his badysis.

"You need strong evidence to talk about corruption," said "El Tigre". He thus distanced himself from Messi when he was talking about bad arbitrations and said that he did not share his position on Conmebol.

"Messi is a voice of authority, which does not mean that I share it.I respect him as a player and as a human being.I think he is a targeted person. but I would like that outside of South America we have to improve, we focus on how corrupt we are here, "Gareca explained.

Although Gareca has made it clear that his intention is not "to enter into a controversy with Messi," he said: "We must improve, logically, but beware of the rhetoric about corruption."

Gareca with Peru

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