25/06/2023
The Colombian League title, after the most promoted unprecedented final of recent years, was held by Millonarios against an Atlético Nacional team that has endured a turbulent semester. Firstly, due to the discrepancies between the leadership and some bars over the prices of the season tickets, then due to sanctions and million-dollar losses due to the closure of the Atanasio Girardot stadium due to bad behavior by the fans of popular sur and due to the criticism that has accompanied the process of the Brazilian coach Paulo Autuori.
With everything and that, the consolidation and potentialization of a quarry that already offers sporting and economic returns for this club that is undergoing a restructuring process cannot be ignored.
This time the purslanes could not celebrate, after an unfortunate performance in the second leg in Bogotá against the best team in the reclassification (53 points to 49 for the greens) and which was defined with shots from the penalty spot (3-2 ), after 0-0 in the 90 minutes.
But beyond the tactical approach and the failures in the execution of penalties by Dorlan Pabón, Cristian Zapata and Jarlan Barrera, there was an unfortunate event that calls into question the authority of Atlético Nacional and of which President Mauricio Navarro has already announced They will analyze the issue and take corrective measures. He told the newspaper El Tiempo that the board of directors continues to support the Autuori process.
Everyone who followed the final at El Campín watched, surprised, how Yerson Candelo and Dorlan Pabón intervened and prevented Jéfferson Duque and Sebastián Gómez from leaving the pitch.
First of all, they disrespected the strategist and then the teammates who were ready to enter the field, among them the young Jhon Solís, who later came on for Nelson Deossa and, 8 minutes later, would be replaced by Jhon Duque. Cristian Castro must have felt the same impotence, who entered for Tomás Ángel and at the end of the game gave way to Jarlan Barrera, in variants that in the end no one knew if they were ordered by the players or the coach. It is enough to look at the memes that circulate in networks and that show what happened.
missing explanations
At the post-game press conference, Autuori was upset by speculation about the mix-up in the trades. He assured that what happened was not his business, that he was clear about the changes. When asked if it was a strategy to slow play, he said vehemently: “I don’t like to hear this because when you analyze you have to look at history. I know there was a serious mistake, I don’t know whose, it wasn’t mine, because the idea of who was going to come out was already clear and written down, so this issue must be mentioned for others and I can’t afford to talk about it. If you look back on my history, it’s not the titles, but the sport that’s most important because it can make things grow at the level of education. Ask the fourth official what happened, because it wasn’t with me”.
Regardless of this explanation, to which the leaders refer when they are asked about the issue, Dorlan, who has just renewed his contract for a year, and Candelo, who has had ups and downs in the tournament, did not like their behavior. It was a final, not a neighborhood game, and even less against a coach with so many scrolls, who has always been respectful and who has said that decisions are made as a group in the team. But these footballers overreached and the coach cannot remain passive either, without asserting his authority.
Perhaps the closeness of the Copa Libertadores game this Tuesday against the Patronato, at the Atanasio Girardot (7:00 pm), will somewhat overshadow the discussion on the subject, but it cannot be forgotten. In Nacional, “authority” cannot be lost.
Goalkeeper Kevin Mier acknowledged that the loss against the capital team was “a very hard blow, but that’s what life is about. To fall, to get up. Tomorrow the sun will rise again, we will have to prepare for the Copa Libertadores match and we will try to do it in the best way”.
Nacional, who returned to Medellín on Saturday night on a charter flight, is already thinking about the duel of the continental tournament that he will have tomorrow and in which he will receive the Patronato de Argentina at the Atanasio Girardot in the last match of Group H of the Cup liberators. To achieve the goal of reaching first place in the group, the green must win and hope that Olimpia from Paraguay draws or loses at home with Melgar from Peru, already eliminated. The paisa team has 10 points, one less than the Guarani team.
After the defeat against Millonarios in Bogotá, versions of alleged fights in Nacional’s dressing room circulated on a false Twitter account. Even well-known journalists replicated the version in which they reported attacks on Jarlan Barrera and the coach Autuori himself, something that was not true. We consulted club sources to clear up doubts and the answer was forceful: “Everything is a lie, an absurdity.” The person, who asked not to mention his name, added after the match ended “everyone in the dressing room was completely silent for over an hour.”
He added that after the last penalty was taken, no one thought about award issues and everyone rushed to the dressing room. “It was a very deep sadness and an endless silence.”
2023-06-26 04:00:43
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