Interview
In dialogue with Redgol, the former Scorer Tenor Luka Tudor reviews the formative aspect in Chilean soccer and raises a share of concern at seeing the stagnation suffered by the development of new talents after the Golden Generation.
The absence of Luka Tudor in the media has been felt. The former striker and player representative left his stands on radio and television, and has been redirecting his goals. He is still linked to soccer from another place, linked to the use of science and technology to improve sports performance.
But Luka’s concern does not let up. The former commentator permanently alerted about the stagnation of the work of lower divisions in Chilean soccer, and in the prelude to a new South American Sub 20, which begins this Thursday in Colombia, he finds the moment to return to sink his teeth into the issue of the training.
“It’s not that it has a panacea, but it has to do with people you get to know and things you learn. I like training and I say it with respect, but the 20 or 21-year-old player who isn’t powerful or fast or both things, it is very difficult for him to play or compete abroad,” says the former Chilean national team.
The role of club representatives and owners
The Chilean Under 20 team is already in Colombia awaiting its debut in the South American, this Friday against Ecuador, current champion of the category. And although Luka Tudor does not want to make projections, he does believe that he has not advanced consistently from the teams that qualified for the Under 20 World Cups in 2007 and 2013.
“Except for immeasurable talents, or the guys touched by the magic wand, young people who do not have the characteristics suffer a deformation, in the good sense of the word (…). In Chile there is a very large number of representatives and there is an overpopulation, because there is not an immense amount of exportable players,” he reflects.
“Unfortunately, after having had the extraordinary generation of players from the Golden Generation, and some that came later to qualify for a World Cup, such as the team led by Nicolás Castillo and Ángelo Henríquez that went to Turkey, clubs appear that believe that the job in lower divisions it is an expense and not an investment,” he criticizes.
Tudor believes that there are businessmen who entered football and only today understand the business. “I see some lights, with respect to certain people who got into football before and saw that this doesn’t work just thinking about the first team, they’ve gotten into football before and saw that it didn’t work just thinking about the first team” , complements.
