Colombian football is back. Last weekend the first date of the second semester was held and there were several surprises regarding the development of the day.
The duel that closed on Sunday was a tie at one between Deportes Tolima and Independiente Medellín at Manuel Murillo Toro in Ibagué. Although the team from Antioquia took the lead thanks to striker Luciano Pons, the hosts equalized in the final stretch of the second half through Gustavo Adrián Ramírez.
Once the meeting is over, Hernan Torrescoach of the pijao, launched accurate criticism against the Dimayor and publicly denounced the mistreatment that his team has received for participating in an international tournament.
“Today we saw again a group that is prepared, that is with the attitude ready to play in the face of the eventualities that we are having: ten injured due to the intensity of the tournaments, three suspended, he had all 11 with two older substitutes and then young boys”, contextualized the strategist.
And after the above, he gave his defenses: “Man, It is the first time in my life as a soccer player that I see that a team does not have a vacation or a day off. I sometimes think that qualifying for the Copa Libertadores is a punishment. Is awesome. They’re going to kill us, they’re going to kill us. These days we are going to go out with seven or six and the rest bare. I don’t know, the resource is running out.”
“I have almost 11 injured and those sanctioned. I don’t know what those who run this want to do with us. They want to kill us, they want to melt us at the end of all this. We will go as far as strength gives us. Playing every other day comes the tears and all the things that are happening. They don’t understand or I don’t know what’s going on, what’s going on”, he denounced.
And he reaffirmed himself on the subject of rest: “It is the only team in my life, in my history as a footballer, that does not have a day off. People don’t know that and they go over it. A tired team, carried away, a complicated, difficult state of mind, injured. And every two days play, play and nothing happens with Tolima. My team is already melted and liquidated”.
“We will continue until they say (leaders), until they want to merge us. If they want to put us to play with six seniors and the other youth. I’m not complaining, but the situation has reached an extreme. The truth is I don’t know what they want or what they want, “she concluded.
It is necessary to remember that the pijao team played the second leg of the first semester final on June 26, three days later they played the first leg with Flamengo in the Copa Libertadores, a week later they played the second leg in Brazil and four days later they began their journey in the Completion with the DIM. Supremely loaded calendar…
See the full press conference here:
