James Rodriguez He had a spectacular Copa América with the Colombian national team. His performance led him to be praised by critics and fans. In fact, he was chosen as the best player of the tournament. But that is not enough for his critics.
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One of them is commentator Carlos Antonio Vélez, who has repeatedly questioned the player.
In conversation with Get naked with Eva ReyVélez referred to his criticisms and did not hold anything back against the number 10.
When asked if he had to swallow his words from the past after the left-hander’s good performance in the continental tournament, the analyst was categorical.
“Fully confirmed. I have not held back a single word. The election of James Rodriguez as the best player of the Copa America was a decision of the people. That was a vote over a beer that people had to vote for, it’s like the famous Internet polls, and I’m not taking away any merit from him,” he said.
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And he added: “I am saying one thing that is true: he was a star against Paraguay, Costa Rica, Panama and partly Brazil. Friends of football argue with me that he was not a star against Brazil, but I put him in. On the other hand, in the difficult games against Uruguay and Argentina he did not appear. That is where the difference-making players must appear.”
Vélez went even further and found in the player himself a cause for his decline in performance.
‘He doesn’t like training’
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“I’m going to tell you why everything goes well for him in the Colombian National Team, because in the National Team there is no training and he doesn’t like to train. He likes the ‘pechiche’, that has been his habitat and that’s why 11 coaches have sent him to the bench. I’m not the one who’s wrong, let the 11 coaches swallow their words,” he said.
And he listed them: Claudio Ranieri in Monaco, Rafa Benítez and Zinedine Zidane in Real Madrid, Niko Kovac in Bayern Munich, Laurent Blanc and Nicolás Córdova in Al Rayyan, José Anigo in Olympiakos, in addition to what happened in the last year with Dorival Júnior, Thiago Carpini and Luis Zubeldía in São Paulo.
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The journalist said that he once told James himself face to face what he thought: “I told him: ‘I’m going to tell you something that you’re not going to like’, and he said: ‘Another one?’. Let’s see who is wrong, the employee or the boss, when an employee has problems with Benitez, ‘Zizou’, Ranieri, who is the one who is wrong? “The employee or the boss?’ And he remained silent.”
Praise, he says, hides reality: “I told him: ‘Think about it, James. If you’re going to take stock of those who say that you beat me,’ look: you almost didn’t get a team, after having been the star of the Copa America, something is wrong, admit it. The fact that people don’t want to accept it doesn’t mean that I’m not right.”
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