It was dispatched: Osorio’s harsh criticism against America’s fans

America from Cali He was eliminated in the B quadrangular of the Betplay II-2021 League by losing 0-1 this Monday in a postponed match against Deportes Tolima in Pascual Guerrero, on the fifth date of the key, in which the ‘vinotinto y oro’ cast he was left with the great option of being a finalist.

Juan Carlos Osorio, Red coach, at the end of the game he shielded himself in other aspects, even touching the Colombian National Team, before analyzing the deficiencies of his team against a Tolima that has sufficiently shown his defensive strength.

At the end of the meeting, he pointed out that “today is a very special day for the colombian soccer, I will take the boldness to speak of three fundamental things today. I have heard many people linked to soccer justifying violence on Colombian soccer fields and supposedly comparing it to what the ‘hooligans’ are. Yesterday and in the previous game we took more than 30 minutes to reach the field, today we arrive directly. It seems to me that today was a great teaching for our soccer, the subject of the fields has to be finished, this is our national sport, our children and families have to go primarily to our soccer games, and we cannot allow that for a few how many misfits-violent-vandals, we can’t enjoy our football ”.

The scarlet coach added that “our fans are more concerned with hurting, criticizing, insulting our players than supporting them. Why not play at 11 in the morning, the great powers do it, you have to support the players and the team and give them everything for 90 minutes and when it ends, yes, all the insults, the criticisms, complaints, especially against me, they will be well received. Today, apart from the more recognized and well-recognized insults of our fans towards me, it was clearly demonstrated that our fans cares more about hurting, criticizing, insulting our players than supporting them. It seems to me that the team played with passion and pride, and in the superior stage of the game it was superior to the rival and that has to be appreciated ”.

Osorio added that “there is a very marked tendency in our football to think that the rival is unfortunate, pejorative terms are used, insults, malicious phrases, I invite you to understand the game from another point of view, and that is that the rival is a A facilitator, whatever it is, is going to make space and time easier for you ”.

Regarding the game as such, he pointed out that “today the rival provided us with the space in front of them, and of two arriving interiors, Sierra and Angulo, and that the two forwards, Deinner and Adrián left zone 14 free, I think that if we analyze The statistics of the match, 62% possession for us and 38% for the rival, it is clearly demonstrated that our game plan worked, we had 15 shots and they 9, they had two shots on goal out of 9. I do not want to get into the issue of our beloved and adored National Team, because it is not a matter that concerns us, but I think it is the best example to set when we, like what happened against Paraguay, is a game very similar to today ” .

At the same time, he said that “I think it is time to ask Colombian football to consider other game ideas, because it does not depend on one, it depends on the rival, where the rival wants, even with limited players, to give space to one. Conclusion, in Colombia we play transitions from defense to attack and any opponent can harm any team, because we all have 2B fiber players, explosive players and players who are decisive in the open field, the serious problem of our beloved Colombian football is that when we have to face a rival who by their decision, or by ours, or by a combination of the two, retreats and we have to find those intersectoral spaces, we do not have the efficiency or the effectiveness to harm the rival, which are 5: middle distance, straight ball, combinative actions, band play and duels ”.

Finally, he argued that we must change the way we play in Colombia: “today we are sad and we are eliminated, but I am very proud of my team and my players, because playing against an opponent who has always been characterized by playing from the In the same way, and I applaud and respect you because it has given you good results at the local level, because at the international level, and there it goes to everyone, when we have to propose, either at the club level or at the national level, we do not have the arguments and the football idea to penetrate an intensely and massively withdrawn rival, with a number of troops behind the ball. The fact that today we have found the ways-ways to retract even more a rival who decided to play like this makes me think that at least in Colombia we should consider other ways of playing, not mine, but the necessary ones to be able to face other ways of game, and this is the moment to start to improve and value those who play another idea, because we cannot continue playing defense-attack transitions ”.

Marco Antonio Garcés
Correspondent Futbolred Cali
On twitter: @marquitosgarces