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The national team has just been eliminated from the World Cup. There are hysterical cries that ask the head of the coach because, they say, it's bad, palabrero and it does not work. There are outraged cries that require the immediate exile of some of the best players in the team. Enraged and in pain, the horde also requires the "renewal" of everything and everyone and asks to investigate the alignment because it was that and not that one. They think she is suspicious and will swear to her with a nauseating odor.
But, be careful. An obligatory and timely clarification: this text does not date from the time when Colombia left Russia in the second round, she was without World Cup and is about to land in Bogota.
These lines were written 20 years ago – I repeat, 20 years! – when the national team was eliminated in the first round of France-1998 and also by England. Capricho del destino
The technician was Hernán Darío & Bolillo & # 39; Gómez, crucified for his harmless manners, his orders and his strategies, those accused of dishonoring the uniform of the homeland were, among others, "Tino & # 39; Asprilla and & # 39; Pibe & Valderrama y, in a reflection more in the mirror of the time, the undisputed Iván Ramiro Córdoba who did not play and the starter was the surprise Wonder Palacios, who s & # 39; ; called & # 39; Chaca's, who replaced him because they said his business opportunities in the transfer market
José Néstor Pékerman, coach of Colombia
The country football does not change either. Perhaps the only thing different from this era is that now, with the social networking speaker, screams and hysteria are magnified and not just in the mouth of a handful of press critics .
Since then in France, Colombia has disappeared from the World Cup map for its eliminations for Korea and Japan-2002, Germany-2006 and South-Africa. 2010. At the age of 16, José Pékerman and his Argentine technical team put the country back on the planet with two consecutive World Cup qualifiers in a marvelous and unequaled pbadage to the quarter-finals in Brazil-2014 and, today with a serious and struggling team that won his group and reached the second round and was eliminated in a penalty shoot-off.
Success is not disputed
This is the end of the era of Pekerman and his team of coaches in Colombia? The contract between them and the Colombian football federation ends next August, when there will be simultaneous adjustments in the rector's executive committee. However, Ramón Jesurún, his president, and Álvaro González, his second powerful vice president, will remain in their seats.
Since the elimination is very recent, caution is extreme. In Kazan, for example, where the national team returned to pack their bags, and in Moscow, where they left before 3:30 on Wednesday, they preferred to ignore the problem and left that waters of anger and anger, as they say in Argentina, have calmed down.
Disgust is in everyone and everyone in the team. From the DT down, pbading by Captain Falcao, ensures that Colombia was eliminated, more than by England, by the American referee Mark Geiger and his decisions considered as persecutory and, perhaps even malicious.
Hired to clbadify
Several journalists and media take it for granted, yes, according to who says it, the new technician is Ricardo Gareca, who brought Peru to the World Cup in Russia; or who is already almost signed Juan Carlos Osorio, the Colombian who heads Mexico, or came into contact with Alejandro Sabella, second World Cup with Argentina in 2014. Three names for a single post that is occupied. [19659004] However, according to this newspaper in Moscow, there is no plan or resumption on the table of the executive committee now, and that the first letter, the basic and fundamental that must be known is if Pekerman and company want their contractual relationship to be renewed.
In the demonstration of the team of coaches to want to continue in the command of the Colombian national team is the key. If they decide to leave, then there is nothing to decide, barely obvious, and they will start looking for a new coach.
Some unconfirmed versions, which were filmed in the Saransk, Kazan, Samara and Spartak stadium press rooms, indicated that Pekerman and his technical group had accepted their new destination in November. last year.
And in Moscow it is also said that if you make this wink to start talking about the terms of the renewal of the contract it is a real, serious and not at all unreasonable opportunity because , as they told El TIEMPO in the offices of the Federation, it was repeated many times that success is not discussed.
In the new premises of the La Castellana district of Bogotá, it has also been argued, and with good reason, that this technical team was hired to qualify for two World Cups, not to win them so the wheel continues those who bark at apocalypse and hecatombs did not occur.
The results obtained by Pékerman during the six and a half years of his administration are indisputable. And he fulfilled the purposes for which he was hired, and his renewal is a possibility that is not excluded, as long as he and his people want it.
GABRIEL MELUK
Special Envoy of TIME
Moscow
On Twitter: @MelukLeCuenta
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