Gamero and Peirano, Millonarios and Santa Fe: about processes and other herbs… (Meluk tells him)

Millonarios was not eliminated from the League on Saturday in a 2-2 draw against Pereira because Carlos Darwin Quintero was not sent off – although he should have been – and then he scored 2-2, as the coach consoles himself. Alberto Gamero, several of its players and many of its fans. He was left out because in the insecurity of his semester without playing well, at 1-2 he did not know how to sustain the victory, as had already happened against Palestino in the Libertadores. This time he fouled the game in the most vulgar and shameless way, wasting the time that was deducted for Pereira’s 2-2 lead.

Empty-handed semester. She never played well. He qualified in extremis in the League and did the bear in Libertadores. And they are missing Flamengo in Rio and Junior at home! What a scare!

There were many bad games with unusual errors on the court and the bench, and low general level. What happened to Millonarios, who until November of last year was praised by all critics and applauded by rival fans in their stadiums?

A miscalculation and, perhaps, overconfidence. Gamero admits the first: “We thought we had put together a team to fight (…). “We have to look at what happened, why so many injuries, to rethink.” And it is a miscalculation because on January 14, Gamero himself said: “I am very calm and happy with what I have (…) Trust… ”.

And, overconfident, the defeats due to injuries and “specific errors in definition and defense” were downplayed. As if that were minor!

Low level and lack of intensity were evident even in the comeback to qualify. They trusted that for the next game everything would be as before and it never was!

Now, that ‘processes’ thing in football is a lot of nonsense. I have maintained that the technicians invented this to avoid dismissal due to a bad result.

It is true that in the four and a half years that Gamero has been around, Millonarios may have won little for everything he should have won, but even so, this Gamero’s Millonarios is the best Millonarios of the last 35 years. Without discussion.

(Also read: Junior beat Bucaramanga with a goal from Carlos Bacca and is excited about the League final)

And that includes the managers, who today are insulted by sore fans and demagogue journalists. When they won last year, no one talked about the owners or the president. That happen.

For example, today no one mentions or interviews the president of Santa Fe, who eight months ago had marches, sit-ins, attacked and threatened even in the media.

I don’t believe in processes. I believe in good teams, like today’s Santa Fe, led by Pablo Peirano, clear in their game plan, with high individual levels, loyal to football in its forms and style, with seasoned players and without carts.

Like the good team that Gamero and Millos had last year. Process…? There’s a lot of hype in that.

GABRIEL MELUK
SPORTS Editor
@MelukLeCuenta