The elimination of América de Cali from the league He left Juan Carlos Osorio with pride in his team and aside three reflections on what he considers should be improved in Colombian soccer to become more competitive. He first asked that games be played in the morning hours, also that the way of seeing the rivals be changed and suggested a change in mentality from the game to leave the typical line of four in the background to play with three. “If there is a country in South America that can play with a defense of three, we are “.
At the press conference, the coach, Juan Carlos Osorio, took the first question to give his perception of what was not only the game, but also what for him it means a change that the FPC must have from the logistics and the game, Well, you think that “In Colombia we should at least consider other ways of playing, not mine, but those necessary to face other ideas of the game.”
Matches in the morning hours
“I believe that today is a very special day for the FPC, I will take the boldness to speak of three fundamental things today. First, I have heard from many people linked to soccer justifying violence on Colombian soccer fields and comparing it to hooligans. For them, I would like to share the following. Yesterday and in the previous game, it took us more than 30 minutes to get to the field, today we did it directly, “the DT started by saying and then complementing the idea that violence on the fields should end if some measures are adapted.
“Those of us who like English football when we have to get up at 5:30 in the morning to watch a classic between the two Manchester teams, it is because they are playing at 11 am, when we play today. It seems to me that it was a great teaching for our football, the issue of violence on the fields has to end. This is our national sport and as such, to you viewer, I invite you to think that our soccer games should come primarily from our childhood and our families. We cannot allow that for some misfits-vandals-violent, we cannot enjoy our football “.
In addition, he ruled that. “For you there who impose law and justice, It is an invitation to think that decisive matches like today’s can be played at 10 or 11 in the morning. The soccer player usually trains at 7 or 8 am in cases like ours where the heat is very high we start a little earlier. You can play early, the great powers do it and why not here. “
But nevertheless. “That must be accompanied by several regulations, that taverns and bars cannot open until 11 in the morning to prevent those vandals from arriving under the influence of drugs. and want to end it all. That they want to kill me, no problem, I think I have enough character, honesty, professionalism, and the moral right to defend myself. But that they want to come in a violent way to want to give a bad example to our children to think that the game and soccer have to be the relief of the problems that we have in our society, it is inadmissible “.
Message to the fans of America
“Today apart from the well-known, very well understood insults of our fans towards me, today it was demonstrated that our fans cares more about hurting, criticizing, insulting our players than supporting them. American fans, you have to support the players, you have to give everything to the team for 90 minutes And when it’s over, all the insults and complaints that you have especially against me will be well received. Today the team played with passion and pride and in the regular process of the game it was superior to the rival and that has to be appreciated. “
The opponent is a facilitator of the game
“There is a very marked tendency in our football to think that the rival is a wretch. Insults are used, malicious phrases are used. I invite you today to understand the game from another point of view and that is that the rival is a facilitator. The rival, whoever he is, is always going to provide you with space and time. If we start from the fact, as Francisco Seirul·lo (former physical trainer for Barcelona) explains well, that the game of soccer is a sport of interaction in a shared space. Beyond our idea of the game, the rival will always provide space and time, ahead or behind the defensive line and the most difficult thing to find, between the lines. “
Osorio took advantage of Tolima’s approach to explain where they failed. “Today the rival gave us the space in front of them, that’s why our declaration of intention to play with two flying wingers in a 3-2, and with two inside arriving players (Carlos Sierra and Larry Angulo), and that the two forwards , in this case, Deiner and Adrián, will occupy the interval between central-lateral and will free the space in zone 14. If we analyze the statistics of the match: 62% possession for us and 38% for the rival, it is clearly demonstrated that The game plan worked, if we add that we had 15 shots and they had 9, our plan worked. Where the error lies is that they of 9 had 2 shots on goal, and we of 15, we had the same on goal “.
Selection, example to change the way of playing in Colombia
Osorio first used Colombia’s match in Barranquilla against Paraguay to compare it with what Tolima did in Pascual. “I do not want to get into the subject of our beloved and adored National Team, because it is not my concern. But I think it is the best example to set. When the National Team plays at home against Paraguay in Barranquilla, it is a game similar to today. The rival gives the space to one ahead, the most difficult thing to find in the game are the inter-sectorial zonal spaces that we try to occupy with our interiors and the descent of Adrián Ramos “.
There he took the opportunity to ask the FPC to change the idea of the game. “I think it is time to ask Colombian football to consider other game ideas. Because it does not depend on one, it depends on where the opponent wants, even with limited players, to give the space to one. Conclusion, in Colombia we play transitions from defense to attack and any opponent hurts anyone, because we all have 2B fiber players (a type of muscle cells that have the main characteristic of having a fast contraction speed), explosives and which are decisive in the open field. The serious problem of our beloved Colombian football is that when we have to face a rival that by their decision, ours or a combination of the two, withdraws and we have to find those inter-sectorial spaces. We do not have the efficiency, nor the effectiveness to hurt the opponent. There are five: middle distance, straight ball, combinatorial actions, band play and duels. “
Colombia can play with defense of three
For Osorio it is difficult to understand that the National Team does not try to play with defense of three central and midfielders. The DT gave an example of what France did in the Eurocup where Deschamps changed his 4-3-3 that led him to be world champion to play with a 3-2-2-3 that Belgium used and in the end it paid off.
“On October 7, Belgium after 7 years with Mr. Roberto Martínez of playing with an idea of 3-2-2-3 faces France for the Eurocup and France world champion in 2018 with a 4-3-3 structure where Kanté-Matuidi-Pogba stands out, he decides to play a mirror system with Pavard and Hernández as lateral flyers, two central flyers and three forwards. Why can’t we play with 3 defenders and flying backs? What forbids us to do so? We cannot continue playing with that rigid compartmentalized 4-2-3-1 that becomes a 4-4-2 and that we must continue to learn from the great teams of the world (France, Spain, Germany, Italy) If there is a country in South America that can play with a defense of three, it is us. Here we have by race and genetics 2B fiber players who can also defend in the center and go to the side. Or the other, playing Johan Cruyff style in ’98 with full-backs converted to playing center-backs like Elvis Mosquera did today, if we start from the fact that the rival counts and is a facilitator. “
Congratulations to Tolima and desire to see a different football in the country
“Congratulate Hernán, he has a very strong game idea that has given him good results. And on stage it is effective as it was today. But we cannot ignore that when he has to propose and play an elaborate football against a rival who proposes what he normally proposes, he has many difficulties, I am not the one to talk about his team “.
Finally, he left his last reflection hoping for a soon change in the way of playing in the country. “One thing is to play whatever comes out, another thing is to play a ball as they would say in Brazil and another thing is to go out to win by proposing and a very different scenario is to go out to win with the obligation to win by proposing. It is the moment to reflect on what is the present of our football and what we want our football to be in five or ten years. “
