The Colombia U-23 National Team has had a 'disastrous' Pre-Olympic Tournament'. The team of Hector Cardenas ended up eliminated after only two games played, now the DT is going for a personal anti-record next Thursday against Bolivia.
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The national team reached Venezuela with the hope of getting a ticket for the Paris 2024 Olympic Games. Figures like Carlos Andrés Gómez, Daniel Ruiz, Devan Tanton, Óscar Perea and Óscar Cortés They made us dream of qualifying, but in the debut we experienced the first blow, the hardest of all.
Against Ecuador, for the first date of Pre-Olympic, the Colombian National Team fell 3-0 (there were not four thanks to the penalty saved by the Colombian goalkeeper in stoppage time), the game left more doubts than certainties in their game.
On the third date, against Brazil, The team was handcuffed, its game was not fluid and it once again showed its defensive shortcomings, taking advantage of the scratch to take the 2-0 victory.
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That party condemned Colombia to elimination on three contested dates and despite having only played two games (he had a rest day on the second date).
Brazil beat Colombia 2-0 and eliminated them from the Pre-Olympic.
Last Monday against Venezuela the team again showed more of the same Hector Cardenas. The errors in defense were key and the lack of definition in front of the goal sentenced the team that lost 1-0 and consolidated itself as the Selection with worse performance in Pre-Olympic Tournament.
Colombia It is last in group A: it has not added a single point, it still has not scored goals and has a negative goal difference of six goals. The team of Cardenas is doing worse than Uruguay, who has not added points in two games either, but has two games less (he could break that record this Tuesday against Peru).
Héctor Cárdenas, from bad to worse
After the defeat against Venezuela, The Colombian coach argued that the poor results in the South American championship were due to a lack of definition.
We are going to compete until the last moment, we want to improve our presence in the competition much more, but through the goal, which is the only thing we need
“The roster that we initially made, which had its first meeting on January 3, unfortunately had three changes, but players who came along in the process and knew what was being done were added. It is not about the condition of the players, nor the talent, because until now we have tried and we will continue to do so, there is a good material of players for the not too distant future of the national team. We are going to compete until the last moment, we want to improve our presence in the competition much more, but through the goal, which is the only thing we need,” he expressed.
Bad results have Hector Cardenas very close to achieving an anti-record as a coach of the lower categories of the Colombia selection. It is the only team without points that has not celebrated a single goal.
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In 2019, when he was the coach of the Under-17 in it South American Championship of the category, did not add any points and lost all the games played.
Lost 2-1 against Argentinait was 2-1 against Uruguay, fell 3-2 against Brazil and on the last date they were defeated 1-0 against Paraguay. Just in the Pre-Olympic In '84 there were such negative numbers (they finished without points), although on that occasion there were only two games.
From the process of that Under-17 team who trained in 2019, Hector Cardenas I only had two players for this one Pre-Olympic: Yani Quintero He was called up, but he was injured, and Jhon Jáder Durán was not given by him Aston Villa of England.
He only has one game left Hector Cardenas to try to make up for the negative figures: this Thursday, February 1, they play against Bolivia on the last date of Pre-Olympic Tournament, It is the last opportunity for the National Team not to leave without points and without goals.
Héctor Cárdenas, coach of the Colombia Under-23 National Team.
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