In adversity is when you meet the real brave, the real fighters, the real winners, the real champions. This Tuesday, the Colombian National Team has to show again, as it has done other times, if it has the character, the mettle, the strength and, in addition, the football to recover from the noisy 0-3 with which Uruguay crushed it last Friday in Barranquilla, and stay that way in the opening race of the Qatar World Cup qualifier.
There is no other. A past defeat, a present urgency. You have to recover at least one of the three points that were lost at home and seek, why not, give a knock stadium in Quito.
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Beyond whether Square is flying or lateral, whether it goes Murillo or Tesillo or Lucumí behind, or if Díaz will sharpen the left wing, the fundamental thing is to recover the attitude and play with the soul (that, play with the soul!): recover the individual level to raise that of the whole.
Beyond the fact that if Ecuador has a focus of casualties due to covid-19 positives or its high definition power or its speed and physical strength, the match for Colombia is to work it with intelligence, to fight it with manliness and to play it with football.
“It is a tough defeat. You have to take responsibility. Here we are all great, “said James as soon as the debacle of last Friday was consummated.” You have to raise your head, we are winners. The only defeat is surrender, everything else is part of the way! ” was his battle cry, later, in Instragram.
James should be the first to lead that reaction. This Tuesday has to appear! Give him the captaincy!
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To that attitude, which could be the same one that achieved the 2-2 against Chile When the party already seemed lost, it is necessary to put it, of course, order, concentration, solidarity with the companion and intelligence.
Maybe this Colombia be one more team to play on the road for its ability to collect and counter in a practical and fast way or to recover quickly and attack by assault. To put it in trendy jargon, for its ease of offensive transitions.
This Tuesday, the Colombia selection it is condemned to fight against adversity, to check what it is made of, to show if, as James says, they are already grown up and correct the course. There is no other …
Meluk tells him …
GABRIEL MELUK
Sports Editor
In Twitter: @MelukLeCuenta
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