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Deserved star | THE VIEWER

The lone star team was always the Botafogo from Rio de Janeiro. This year’s Deportivo Cali is the one with the tenth star.

Deserved and well earned, with all the usual qualms, by the way, in all champion teams. The goal was met by Rafael Dudamel, who in 23 games obtained a performance of 62 percent, enough to qualify his trade and, incidentally, feel the pleasure of having been a champion as a player and now as a director of this group.

Playing well and in a sustained way in the 90 minutes contains a physical-athletic preparation, which is not common in Colombian teams of these times. If one recalls the games that are appreciated, one can easily realize that they control the first half and give the second period to the rival. This is what could be called alternate game control.

That was precisely seen in the final match in Ibagué. A Cali confused and surprised by Tolima’s drive, a team accustomed to deploying a game supported by old and still in force counterattack, which had in Albornoz, with the work of Daniel Cataño, the best player in Tolima due to his intelligence to exploit the speed of his extremes, especially for the left sector.

Even in the complementary, Cataño took advantage of a poorly executed charge by Juan Camilo Ángulo on a corner kick and put a ball to the right that left Anderson Plata hand in hand with de Amores, who resolved well and saved Cali.

Cali in this series -and that is a point to correct-, received the two goals from Tolima in the accumulated by not being able to control the headers. Ramírez, in the first game and Quiñones in the second game. Watch out for corner kicks in their favor.

If the initial was entangled and unproductive for Cali, in the final 45 minutes he got Angelo and Vásquez to associate for the first time in a play that ended with the tie, but it was evident that Tolima “stayed” in this passage due to pressure and possession. of the rival. Finally, Preciado received a maximum penalty and reached 13 goals to get a personal title: the scorer’s booty. Player for the rest of the finals, like the Paraguayan Ramírez del Tolima.

The two games were neither brilliant nor embellished with an aesthetic for applause. There were frictions, interruptions, protests from players and little by little they led to fighting more than colorful football. Otherwise logical matter, because the priority was to win and thus hide the shortcomings in operation within the field. Both pushed to reach the Copa Libertadores group and there Cali won the quota.

It only remains in these hours of happiness and Caleño merriment to greet the campus; highlight Teo Gutiérrez and Hárold Preciado as their flagship players and give their supporters applause; to Dudamel, champion-player and now champion-coach. Deserved the distinction and already in a matter of hours think – I am talking about his leadership – about how to strengthen the squad to go to the Copa Libertadores with higher goals and not only participate by participating. Find better positions at that event.

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