Claudio ‘Bichi’ Borghi spoke clearly and directly about the Peruvian team by Ricardo Gareca. For the former Chilean national team technician (2011), the ‘Tigre’ eliminated bad behavior from the national dressing room. “They were always playing well, but messy,” launched the former player and World Champion with Argentina in 1986. He also touched on other issues such as the comparison with Diego Armando Maradona.
“What is happening is crazy. This triple date that was never played, can have many consequences. A national team has to play in several different climates, so it becomes a complex situation ”, criticized Claudio Borghi in an interview with journalist Elo Bengoechea for GOLPERÚ.
“I grew up watching wonderful Peruvian football, with good players. I saw Teófilo Cubillas, among others, playing. I always had a very special admiration for Peru for 3 things: football, its good Spanish and pisco”, Said the soccer commentator in Chile today.
“What the skinny Gareca has done has been to clean the locker room regarding the bad behaviors that the Peruvian player had. They were always playing well, but messy in some things. He has achieved it and has done good things: he went to the World Cup and now he did well in the America’s Cup. There was always respect, ”he said.
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COMPARISON WITH MARADORA
“The only one who did not compare himself to him was me, knowing that it was almost impossible to do what Diego was doing. There were a lot of coincidences that people imagined. We were from the same club, I know his whole family. When Diego went to Boca Juniors, I started playing. So the comparison was automatic: one leaves, another comes. At that time all that was a problem. I never had the personality of Diego, “he said.
‘FEAR TO FLY
“Do not have; I have panic. Is different. But many are wrong because they think it was my whole life. My old man died when I was 9 years old and he 42. And when my son turned 9 and I 42, the next day he was traveling by plane. Then I felt that I was going to die and that I was going to leave my little orphan. There I got a very important panic attack: I sat on the plane and said ‘this is going to fall’ ”, he revealed.
“I needed to get off. The stewardess asked me what was wrong with me and I told her I wanted to leave. I did it and they wouldn’t let me leave the airport because they saw me very badly. He needed to smoke a cigarette as a tranquilizer. From the airport to my house I cried like a 5 year olds. I felt a tremendous pain, ”he continued.
“After many psychological treatments, the conclusion of the doctors was simple: I am not afraid of him, but of death.. What happens is that on the plane you completely lose control of what is happening. They advised me 2 things that did me good: the first was to sit as far forward as possible, and the second was to drink 8 whiskeys to make it happen (laughs). I take a pill so that the revolutions pass ”, he closed.
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