Between love and hate, & Bolick & # 39; Gómez returns to the Ecuadorian national team

The spontaneity of Colombian Hernán "Bolillo" Gómez and his particular way of uniting and motivating, may be revulsive to an Ecuador who was ruled out of the World Cup in Russia and who begins to to work against that of Qatar in 2022.

The project will begin to roll when the trimundialista coach who ranked Colombia in 1998, Ecuador in 2002 and Panama 2018, will take up a second challenge with the Andean tricolor flag.

After taking Panama to the World Cup for the first time, Gómez the second coach to manage three different teams in the highest national team competition

The only one to beat this record is the Frenchman Henri Michel, who qualified with France in 1986, Cameroon in 1994, Morocco in 1998 and Tunisia in 2002.

But in Ecuador, some applauded his return based on his recent results, such as having made Panama one of the three football powers of Central America, others considered They are not indicated.

Some claim that the sum of one million three hundred thousand dollars to be paid to Hernán Darío's technical staff monthly is an exaggeration.

Others claim that at the last World Cup, Panama lost, by a 6-1 win against England , and the "Bolillo" was the worst coach of the tournament With his team

The truth is that Gómez managed in 2002 to unite "costeños" and "serranos", two Ecuadorian regions separated by regionalism and with two truths of football who did not quite fit the national team. Despite decades of attempts to qualify for a World Cup

and when they accepted Korea-Japan, the Colombian joined the players from both regions, eventually making them believe in their athletic abilities and unite them for the same purpose.

Although the mundialistas, most with those who armed "the family" derailed shortly after in the 2004 Copa America, falling by 6-1 in front of Argentina.

The "Bolillo" badured that it was "a result takes technicians and he left the team with his dance of" El Pirulino "(musical theme of the Colombian telenovela, Pedro el Escamoso) , the same thing with which he lit the atmosphere before every game.

Gómez has this spontaneity, he does not care about appearances, or he was ridiculed every time he danced his "Pirulino" in the Olympic stadium "Atahualpa" before his team jumped on the field during the 2002 South American qualifiers.

Those who today applaud his return are asking for discordant voices to see how he managed to make from Panama a great team who failed, in qualifying for Russia, several World Cup selections in Central America

In social networks and the media, the arrival of the new coach awakens the pbadions. of view, and 16 million Ecuadorians give free rein to the selector that they have inside.

But it will be the Colombian who will badume the responsibility of taking advantage of the quantity and quality of football players that Ecuador currently has, who have succumbed one after the other. One after the other en route to Russia.

After the success of Gómez in 2002, his compatriots Luis Fernando Suárez, in 2006, and Reinaldo Rueda, in 2014, they managed to rank the Andean country for the World Cups respectively in Germany and Brazil.

EFE – Colombia.com