There is no doubt that Juan Carlos Osorio is one of the best coaches in Colombian football, a coach with an international career who returns at a time when local clubs must bet on improving their performances in competitions such as the Copa Libertadores and the Copa Suramericana.
The scarlet is the fourth club that the Risaraldense directs in the country, after a long month of dialogues, requests for players and infrastructure, but also framed by a moment of doubt if it was really going to accept the scarlet proposal. However, the current conditions will put him to debut on the international stage for the round of 16 of the South American Cup against Atlético Paranaense, from Brazil, without being able to have a single official league match.
The first thing that all members of the squad must be clear about is that they must be in good shape, since the coach will continue with his rotation. For example, goalkeeper Diego Novoa will have the opportunity to debut and alternate with Joel Graterol. To talk about the defense, Cristian Arrieta and Daniel Quiñones –if he doesn’t finally come out– as right-backs; Marlon Torres and Kevin Andrade as right centrals; Pablo Ortiz and Jorge Segura will do the same in the position of left central, the same as Héctor Quiñones and Elvis Mosquera as a side on that side.
He usually uses a 3-5-2 or 4-4-2, depending on the opponent, which he gives a lot of importance to. That is why he always listens to his trusted man: Pompilio Páez, whom he considers to be the person who knows the most about soccer in Colombia and who studies his opponents in detail.
Those who have been close to him state that they like the start of the game with the centrals or the head of the area. Always look for a throwing midfielder who delivers the ball well. The game for the extremes is key in him and therefore he gives it a lot of importance.
Rather than having a creative or typical steering wheel 10, he uses the false 9 quite a bit, which can be a steering wheel (at the time in Nacional it was Baldomero), a side (as he did with Daniel Muñoz) to accompany the forwards.
The directors confirmed eight incorporations, although one of the first, David Lemos, was seriously injured and will not be able to be there this year. As for the extremes, everything indicates that they will play with a changed profile. There appear Jeison Lucumí, Larry Angulo, Santiago Moreno, Joao Rodríguez, Mauricio Gómez, Deinner Quiñones, Émerson Batalla, Luis Sánchez, while in front he has Adrián Ramos, Carlos Cortés Barreiro and Gustavo Torres, although the latter also acts as a winger.
Luis Alejandro Paz, Rodrigo Ureña and Carlos Sierra are the flyers who will have the brand mission and also join the generation of actions in attack. It is clear that Osorio gives priority to the offensive game, with his previous teams he has attacked with up to seven players and that has cost him games when he discovered himself behind.
Similarly, it uses defense-attack transitions, which are commonly known as counterattacks. In the two press conferences he has given, he made it clear that with his arrival you have to get used to a new language.
Osorio himself stated that the intensity will have to be analyzed from two points of view, in the moments without the ball: “Where there is a commitment and the recovery of the ball, we would already talk about whether it is an immediate reaction in the loss, if we talk about withdrawals. massive and intense or the combination of two previous ones. We can also talk about the intensity and circulation of the ball, the time of the ball, we are talking then about possession of the ball and when we have the great possibility of managing the ball as a group and hopefully committing the opposing team, being aggressive and trying to generate goal options ”.
And for those who question his usual changes in the starting formations, he indicated that for him it is a rule of life: “On the issue of rotation, I have the opportunity to tell you that it is not a football issue, it is a principle of life. I believe in the human being and in opportunity, and just as I hope that the son I have in the fourth semester of Medicine at the university, when he graduates will have an opportunity, in a good hospital through trial and success and unfortunately in some moment of trial and error, it is the same with the footballer, that is why I will never renounce that policy of giving everyone the opportunity, because we believe that if he is on the payroll it is because he deserves to be and deserves the opportunity ”.
Osorio began work with the reds on June 16 at full steam, seeking to show, if not the best collective performance, at least the closest to what he intends, this Tuesday (7:30 pm) in Pereira against Paranaense.
Marco Antonio Garcés
Correspondent Futbolred Cali
On twitter: @marquitosgarces
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