Millionaires hit the wall of international football again. On this occasion, for the Copa Libertadores, the Bogota team fell at the hands of Fluminense, the first team in Rio de Janeiro created exclusively for ‘futebol’.
Those led by Alberto Gamero accumulated a 1-4 on the global scoreboard and said goodbye without pain or glory to the largest regional tournament. In the memory of the fans, it will remain that Millonarios began winning the series in the first game, but that, as a result of the lack of hierarchy, an expulsion collapsed everything. The records will only read that the ambassadors failed, for the umpteenth time, in their international departure.
Leader in Colombia, one more abroad
The most optimistic view recalls that today Millonarios is the leader of Colombian soccer. That despite preserving the rest of their starters for the duels against Fluminense, the albiazul team added two victories in their last games with players even younger than those who make up their gala formation. Which is currently the team that has had the best performance as a visitor to date: eleven points out of a possible fifteen. And that, in addition, Álvaro Montero’s fence, with only three goals, is the least defeated in the BetPlay League.
The above seems to indicate that at home everything is wonderful. The issue is that in Millonarios, for a long time, this is how the path has been given, but not the goal.
In the second most winning team in Colombia, today the sports project is just one: trust in what the youth players can do. This is how things have been since the last three years, when Alberto Gamero, an expert in squads with adolescent features, came to lead the club.
In the beginning, everything was achievement: “There goes Gamero’s ‘Kindergarten'”. Thus he was close to being champion of the BetPlay League on two occasions. He was close, he wasn’t. Thus he was eliminated twice in a row by the modest Alianza Petrolera in the Colombia Cup. Thus, he has failed in his attempts to classify foreign tournaments with his nails and then, if possible, compete.
Now, the little more than 1,200 million dollars that he was able to receive from the organization of the Copa Libertadores, for reaching the group stage of the tournament and playing his three games at home, summarize the economic weight of his international failure.
A club without goals
The fan is hurt, but the directors had already warned. In the plan projected by the leaders until 2025, as it could be known unofficially, it would not be contemplated to obtain any title. The leaked document speaks briefly of “Playing at least one final”, “classifying for international tournament phases” and, in short, “selling players”.
That is the goal of the club. Do what you can with the youngsters and send one or another abroad. Not in vain, the three exits that the team had for this tournament, Emerson Rivaldo Rodríguez, Fernando Uribe and Daniel Giraldo were not replaced with men of the same weight.
Gamero, head of the sports section, does not seem very worried either:
“We have a payroll that I think is capable of fighting for the title. All 20 teams aspire to that, we also have the same game idea and this is going to bring us good results”, he said at the beginning of the year.
This Tuesday, after the defeat against Fluminense, he remained optimistic: “The result was very broad for what was seen, one is left unsettled by what we came to compete for, and we left empty-handed, but this is learning, and we are on the right track“.
Nobody is going to say that the quarry is not important. That is paramount. The problem is that the youth can’t carry all the hope of a club. It doesn’t happen in Europe, much less works in Colombia. And the repeated failures in international tournaments and the lack of titles confirm it. That is the case of Millionaires.
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