Carlos ‘Pibe’ Valderrama is the voice that is most respected in the Colombian Selection. And if he talks about James, much more.
In an interview with ‘Win Sports’, the historic creative criticized harshly not the player but who he considers the great responsible: coach Carlos Queiroz.
“I’m going to be direct … James Rodríguez in the Colombian team plays as a right striker. James Rodríguez is not a right striker, when?”
And he went on to explain: “So he, for respecting a system, for respecting a coaching staff, remains as the right pointer. Do you know how many times James Rodríguez plays the ball in the Colombia team? Tell me about them and they tell me and they call me I know , I have them counted. Count them … Watch the game and count. It’s that James Rodríguez is not a right forward, James Rodríguez is the ‘ten’ of the Colombia team and not two games ago, two World Cups ago. He lost a goal and lost pass goal, do you know what he lost? He is the one who generates football in the Colombia team and does not generate football, why in these two games how many scoring chances did we have? Goal chances, I’m not talking about shooting crosses, shooting him a center to Duván, no. Goal plays, ‘hand in hand’, count them and tell me, “he reflected.
“There are already doubts about the Queiroz process but the leaders are the ones who have to speak out. How is a DT going to come out that a 10 does not matter to me, if the 10 is the one that generates football for you” Carlos ‘Pibe’ Valderrama. pic.twitter.com/VR8IeVTPC1
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El Pibe and the failures of Queiroz’s idea: “We do not generate football and, if football is not generated, we cannot score goals. To score goals you have to generate football and that is done in the middle of the field and we have the players, because they are not going to tell me that Cuadrado does not generate football or that he left Chocó yesterday. No, Cuadrado has had two World Cups and is playing for Juventus “.
With his life he defends the role of James, which is his own: “but not now, now they put him as a right pointer. So we have two pointers who generate football, James Rodríguez and Juan Guillermo Cuadrado. How can a coach from football with which the ten does not matter! If the ‘ten’ is the one that generates to score goals. The number ten is the one that generates plays to score goals, to score goals “.
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