This week will finally bring good news for the Colombian teams in an international tournament: the Copa Sudamericana, the area’s B championship. In the first leg of the qualifying phase, DIM will receive America and La Equidad, Junior. The percentage of success will be 50 percent. Heh!
Quite a relief –uffff!– after the two biggest in the country, Nacional and Millonarios, respectively, were eliminated in their qualifying keys for the Copa Libertadores, the highest club tournament on the continent.
As expected, there was over-analysis in traditional media (we can’t cast the first stone) and by fans on social media. Everything was said without saying anything: that the structure of Colombian soccer, that the minor tournaments, that the training of players, that they hired and if they didn’t, that because they say there are no ‘processes’ and they say there are, that the semi-annual League system, that the fans, that the journalists, that the managers, that “corruption”…
When it has gone well for us (because it has also gone well for us) it has been with exactly the same thing that we have today: the same structure, the same minor tournaments, the same player training processes, the same so-called ‘processes’ and not ‘processes’. ‘, the same fans, the same journalists, the same managers. Even the string of the late 1980s was in the middle of the drug-soccer era and the last Libertadores title was with the same president of the Federation and the great World Cup campaign of the National Team was under the administration of who is today in the US. singing more than Resident to JBalvin.
When they invest, the same
Colombian teams have done poorly when they invest, such as the $15 million Nacional with Almirón de DT or the $10 or 12 million Junior with Comesaña; and they have also done poorly when they invest little, like the current economic version of Millos. If you had retained Uribe, would you have eliminated Fluminense?
Either! Uribe contributed fundamentally with his failures to elimination in the last League.
Since 2016, when Nacional was crowned champion of the Libertadores (beware of that, batteries!), each eliminated Colombian team has its own peculiarities and reasons. But is there at least one common reason? Definitely yes: the overestimation of local clubs and their players.
A story of what, and since when, Colombia is a regional power in the Libertadores. Look: in the last 20 years, Brazil has won 10 Libertadores, Argentina, 6; Colombia, 2 (a lot, you see why the alert!) and Ecuador and Paraguay, one by one.
The history of titles in the South American is summarized in 9 from Argentina, 5 from Brazil, 2 from Ecuador (a lot!) and Colombia, Chile, Mexico and Peru one by one.
local overvaluation
We are very similar to each other, we are like any neighbor’s son, but we believe we belong to a better family. The same thing happens to us with the National Team
The only common denominator is the local overvaluation. We don’t know that those of us on the block (except for the owners of the corner houses, Brazil and Argentina) are very similar to each other, we are like any neighbor’s son, but we think we belong to a better family. The same thing happens to us with the National Team: we look down on others when from Uruguay down we are all very similar. We are hand in hand and that is why we have to begin to really compete, knowing that we are peers and not believing that we have fallen from the armpit of the Divine Child.
There is another common factor that is as simple as it is undeniable: the Libertadores system generally places Colombians in pot 3 of the draw: third-tier teams, with a couple of exceptions like Nacional, which was pot 1 in 2017, Well, he came from being a champion. And with everything and that was eliminated in the first round due to the internal struggle that knocked down the managers and the technician.
There is an overanalysis of everything and nothing. And it does not touch the only common denominator: the overvaluation that is so our every day.
Meluk tells him…
GABRIEL MELUK
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