Alberto Gamero and his mea culpa after the failure of Millonarios in the Libertadores: ‘It went very badly for us’

Gamero’s conference has a component of self-criticism for what happened in the Libertadores, in which he did not win a game.

“There are many things to improve, many things to correct. We had a great hope in this Libertadores and today (Tuesday) this Cup ends for us. It is looking, analyzing well. There was also that dose of luck: we didn’t have those four, five players that we had brought for this Cup. It went very badly for us, rethinking for what’s coming,” Samarius said.

Gamero acknowledged that we must start looking for reinforcements for the squad, although he insisted that there was a lot of bad luck.

“Days ago, when we saw this, the issue of reinforcements was raised. We brought one, but others are injured. Today we are not going to look for culprits. On Sunday we finish the league and we will sit down to talk about what is coming. That bad luck of having so many injuries had an impact on the campaign. With a cool head, with calm, but with the certainty that reinforcements are needed, that is what the board is proposing, let’s look,” he said.

Gamero believes that the team is not mentally affected by what happened. “Life is states of mind. When you have these results, this is seen in many passages, the team suddenly feels without spirit. What I see from this team in training, in concentrations and at times in games, is not the mood, things do not work out and do not work out. We have had games where we arrive, we arrive and we don’t score, and the opponent comes to us once or twice and scores one or two goals. All of this is going to be analyzed, I don’t know if this recovery period is going to be of more use to these guys than something mental,” he explained.

When asked about the large number of injuries that Millonarios suffered during the semester, Gamero responded: “That also enters into the search for what mistakes were made in this tournament. But I also have to repeat, there are injuries that have nothing to do with physical preparation. Today we have players like Jhoan, on the sole of his foot, Vega with his knee, Castro with his shoulder, Valencia on his knee, it has nothing to do with the physical part. There are also muscle injuries. That boy Alfonzo has played 29, 30 games, I think, and he is the one who has played the most, he has not been injured, he still runs. You have to look, this is not saying the physical part, that he is not taking care of himself, that they played many games,” he insisted.

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