The interim coach of Atlético Nacional, Peter Sarmiento, referred in a recent interview to the need for clubs to have five or six players in the central defender position. He gave Deportes Tolima and Nacional itself as an example, to refer to the situation they have had to overcome for not replacing players when they go on sale or losing them due to injuries.
And it is that in the second half of 2022 the purslane team lost defenders Felipe Aguilar and Juan David Cabal, midfielder Baldomero Perlaza and attacker Giovanny Moreno, and only announced the arrival of winger Andrés Felipe Román. A scenario that worries Sarmiento. “Nacional sold six or seven players and only one reinforcement arrived,” he said in a conversation with ESPN, where he mentioned that the pandemic affected processes in minor divisions, and prevented them from “taking hold” of some youth squads.
Sarmiento spoke of how “short, especially in the back,” a team can show off and mentioned that “it must have at least five or six central defenders.” The former assistant to Hernán Darío ‘Arriero’ Herrera, who took over the reins of the professional squad after the coach’s departure, mentioned that “in Tolima they were injured like four and had a lot of difficulties, the same thing happened to Nacional. Álvaro Angulo who They brought him as a left back, he had to play central against Medellin, and then he had to change and put (Danovis) Banguero “.
Finally, Pedro Sarmiento referred to situations like these that complicated the Purslane team and ended up forcing the ‘Arriero’ to leave. “We are almost sick of the discipline; if you don’t find the best performance, you realize immediately. There are things that did not favor Nacional and affected Hernán Darío,” he assured.
