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SAO PAULO: Chilean midfielder Arturo Vidal promised Saturday to scare Japan when the two teams meet on the first day of the Copa America on Monday (June 17th).
The two defending champions are not among the favorites this time, as they lost some of the players who led them to the 2014 World Cup title and Copa's consecutive titles in 2015 and 2016.
But Barcelona's Vidal is convinced that the remains of Chile's gold generation still have a lot to offer in this tournament.
"We should fear this team, from start to finish, we hope it will be an incredible thing, but we will play it match by match," he told reporters at the hotel. Chilean hotel in Sao Paulo, where they will play tournament guests in Japan.
The Blue Samurai brought to Brazil an inexperienced team with an average age of only 22 years old. When it was announced last month, 17 members of the team had not yet reached a ceiling.
Takefusa Kubo, 18, has not only made his debut, but has also signed for Real Madrid.
"He's a player with a lot of quality, there's a reason he's at Real Madrid," Vidal said.
"We saw it, very well badyzed and we know how to stop this player," he added about the wizard dribble nicknamed the "Japanese Messi".
"Japan is an organized team, they are fast and we have to be careful, we concentrate and when they show up at the game, we have to try to attack them very quickly because they then go to 5-4-1 and that's it. is really hard to score a goal. "
After three years of unprecedented success, Chile has collapsed in 2017 by failing to qualify for the World Cup last year.
Since then, the goalkeeper and veteran captain Claudio Bravo has been dismissed from the team.
"It all starts with a new one: a new process, new players, new coaches," said Vidal, who is 32 years old one of the oldest players of Colombian coach Reinaldo Rueda and the One of six with over a century of caps.
"It took us several days to talk and clarify things."
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