In the second part of the exclusive with Romell Quioto, who is one of the best legionaries that Honduras has at the moment, talks about the match they will hold against Olimpia for the Concacaf Champions League on December 15 in Orlando Florida. He says they won’t give anything away this time.
The “Romantic” is sincere, it shows that he has matured a lot, a situation that will give him a new role in the Bicolor. He explains in detail why he had not been taken into account in the National Team and what he has talked to Fabián Coito.
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Who is the best Honduran player for the Romantic? Born in Río Esteban, Colón said that his graduation as a footballer will be when he plays a World Cup. He is already living the game against Olimpia and remembers that in the first game they had many failures.
Now they have a chance in the Concacaf Champions against Olimpia, your recent past. How do you envision what comes before the albos on December 15?
I think it will be a beautiful game, as always for me, very special to be able to face Olimpia and in the same way, a complicated opponent, quite tough and he has shown it. We are going to try to prepare well because it will be a tough opponent that we will have in front of us. We have to be aware that they are not going to give anything away, they are going to want to give everything, but we have fundamental pieces to get ahead and be able to find that match.
Do you think it will be different in relation to the duel when they faced them at home where they lost?
I have always said, this will be a very different game, it will be played on a natural court, a neutral court and I can tell you that with the issue of not having fans, it can have advantages and disadvantages, as well as good weather. It will be a very separate game.
How do you and the team arrive, which comes from less to more than we saw in MLS is back?
I personally arrive well. When we faced him here he had been standing for a long time and I think the team will arrive well, physically we are all well. It will be a pretty tough match.
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I imagine you saw Olimpia eliminate Motagua?
Before the game I was talking with Jerry Bengtson, he wrote to me to congratulate me on the renewal with the Impact. I told him that they had to go with everything and I told him: I’m going with you today but not on December 16 (laughs).
Does Olimpia Thierry Henry ask you for keys or does he study the matches on his own?
He does not ask me anything in that regard, the ones who do ask me are the companions. The coaching staff analyzes the videos and they know how we can hurt Olimpia.
In general, how do you look at Olympia?
They have good players, who are at a good level, most of them have very careful pieces.
The forward Romell Quioto with the shirt of the Honduras National Team in the last qualifying round for Russia 2018.
Who needs to be more careful about this Olympia by Pedro Troglio?
I could not tell you why we are not going to focus on a single player because the whole team is doing well, we cannot trust each other.
What concepts does Thierry Henry have from Olympia?
What happens is that not only in that game, but in the entire MLS tournament we gave away the first 45 minutes and then when we wanted to squeeze in the second half it did not fit us. That was what happened to us against Olimpia, we gave away the goals and then we tried to squeeze with a goal from Zafir, but it did not fit us. You have to be aware that this time we are not going to give anything away.
What concept do you have of Pedro Troglio, even though you haven’t had the fortune to train you, I say because your ex-teammates say it’s a fortune?
What little I have seen him when he trains, I see that he does not bother his players much, he is always calm on the bench, all footballers have to have confidence in him. I know he was a great player, a World Cup player and all that kind of thing at the end when you have a coach like that helps you a lot and that’s why Olimpia is at the level it is.
Everyone believed that I was going to see you with the Bicolor shirt, it was not possible due to a quarantine that you were going to spend on your return to Canada. Did you stay with the desire?
I really wanted to go and be able to be, I was very happy to be able to return because it was my time to be with the National Team and after a long time of not going I felt very happy when the teacher called me and told me that he was going to take me in account, but due to the situation we are experiencing I could not. Thank God I spoke with him, he understood me and I told him that in future calls I will be there.
Did you have to smooth things over with Prof Coito because of your recent past or with him everything was calm?
With Professor Coito all good, we have never had problems. Even when he was at the Houston Dynamo having problems he talked to me. When he found out that I had signed here, he congratulated me and told me to dedicate myself to work and that motivates me because he is a technician who always takes me into account. I have always said that in the National Team there are those who are at a good level and at the time I was not playing, I did not put any pretext because the one who was not called and I did not make any claim because I knew he was not doing well.
I imagine that was what made you wake up and say; -You have to focus because the National Team is there -…
Of course, because I know how nice it is to play the tie, score a goal with the National Team and make a whole country celebrate. I want to be in the Bicolor again and the only way is to work and get back to a good level.
Could we see the Elis-Choco-Quioto trident again, with Elis and Choco more mature and with you also in relation to what we saw in the past process?
Hopefully we will be given the opportunity to get back together again. I think Choco Lozano, Elis and myself have grown as players and personally. If tomorrow we are given the opportunity to play together again, we must respond. It is very important because they are in Europe, even Choco has been there for a long time. It is necessary that we put on the overalls to take the National Team to the World Cup.
Do you like the Choc-Elis-Quioto trident?
That is why I tell you, we have played together with them for a long time and the times we have had the opportunity to do so we have done well, it will not be the exception that when we meet again we will do things well again.
How did you get the news of Alberth Elis’s departure to Europe?
Very happy for him, I think he is a great person, a great player, he has worked hard for that, he has great humility, he has won things. For me, all the time we have been together we have formed a great friendship and I was happy when he left for Europe.
When he scored his first goal in Europe, did you congratulate him?
We hardly spoke, but I did put a comment on his Instagram congratulating him. He knows that he has to keep working because being in Europe is not easy and now that he has the possibility, he has to show the capacity that he has.
How do you see the qualifiers coming to Honduras heading to Qatar?
It will be a very hard road, it will be a difficult tie as they all are, but those of us who have experience of having played one, we have to talk to the young people to tell them how those games are played. Because I tell you, there are games that to this day still hurt me because we had them in our hands and they left us. In this tie if we want to go to the World Cup we don’t have to give anything away.
Today, would you dare to predict the three Concacaf teams that will go to Qatar?
The truth is that I could not name names, it will be a very difficult tie.
What does it mean to you that players like Wilson Palacios, Muma, Jerry Palacios consider you the most important player in Honduras now?
I like that they think of me that way, but in the same way it is a great responsibility knowing that there are many people who know that I have the capacity to show a great level and maybe I am not doing it, that is a responsibility. I have to have the focus and I have recovered it, although always with my crazy things like singing that some people say I’m crazy, but it’s my way of being. I always try not to get bitter about the whole situation we are experiencing. I am glad that they think this way about me.
Who is the best Honduran player for you right now?
Choco Lozano is the best player in Honduras right now, not only because he is in Europe, but because of the level he is showing and he stood out against Real Madrid, which is not just any team.
What do you need to graduate?
I reached the third year of the cycle and did not finish it because I started playing professionally and focused on soccer. It wasn’t that I didn’t have time, I wanted to be a footballer and I had no mind for anything else.
What do you lack to achieve your goals as a footballer?
Play a World Cup. I feel like I’m graduating with a master’s degree there. Thank God we have that opportunity and it is a dream we have had since childhood. You watch the World Cups since you were a child and you have to fight for that.
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