The Colombia National Team final details for this Thursday’s duel against his counterpart Boliviain El Alto, for the ninth round of the 2026 World Cup qualifier. It will be a very complicated game due to the issue of altitude in a city that is 4,150 meters above sea level.
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The duel between Colombians and Bolivians has become very heated, after an alleged espionage attempt of which the Colombia National Team in Cochabambaconcentration place before traveling to El Alto.
Before the duel against Bolivia, the DT Nestor Lorenzo He once again put cold water on the whole ‘dirty game’ that the highland team and its coach would be having to win the victory in a crucial duel for them.
“They are isolated circumstances. We are happy in Cochabamba. There are people who want to win at any cost and who do inappropriate things. Our physical trainer had to come to Bolivia twice because he agreed to something here and they changed all the logistics, which shows from the start that they wanted to complicate us. We think about the game and what is going to happen on the field. “We are not going to stop and complain about the things that were done to us,” he indicated.
Nestor Lorenzo He focused on talking clearly about the party and pointed out thate Colombia goes to Bolivia with the same mentality: that of winning. “The kitchenware is the same as always, we must go out and be protagonists. Each game is a different story, the game plan varies, but Colombia comes to play and win.”
On the other hand, he spoke of the difficulties that it represents for Colombia play at more than 4,000 meters above sea level, a terrain that a delegation of the National Team had never explored before.
“It is a game with special circumstances. The physical part is important at that height. It’s not easy, there are players who arrived yesterday and haven’t been able to train. We are confident, working with doctors to mitigate these effects that can cause suffocation. From the football side we have to give a lot of confidence to the team,” said Lorenzo.
“The feeling is that it is going to be an intense match, Bolivia He has a team that proposes that, that is young and that will try to set the pace. The challenge is for us to manage the pace of the game and we are going to try to mitigate that physical difference through the game,” he added.
The Argentine coach did not rule out the ownership of James Rodriguez in the match, despite the special conditions in which it will be played. “James is fine, he has gained a lot in training with him. Rayo Vallecano and has played several minutes. I don’t know as the game goes on and with that special circumstance how he’s going to perform or react as the game goes on, we’re going to evaluate him minute by minute, not just him, but all the players.”
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