Colombia will defend its undefeated and second place in the qualifying table this Thursday, in the middle of a rarefied atmosphere, and not only for the fact of climbing to the roof of South America, to the highest stadium in the world in official matches: the Municipal de Villa Ingenio, in El Alto (Bolivia) at 4,150 meters above sea level .
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Néstor Lorenzo’s team will face a Bolivian team emboldened by the latest results, by the 4-0 they gave to Venezuela in that same scenario and that, literally, gave them wings: the momentum was enough to win for the first time as visitor in the qualifiers since 1993. And that has meant that, from up there, at that height, they talk hard and often.
But the Argentine has not come out to answer that play on words. He knows that his responsibility, and that of his team, will be on a field that will surely be difficult, but in which the specific weight of the roster gives him options to score points.
There are many things at stake and that is why conditions have changed for Colombia since it arrived on Bolivian soil. Lorenzo did not remain silent on that.
“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 things for us.”said.
“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 said.
Lorenzo’s complaint about alleged espionage
Lorenzo himself even reported that their training sessions were spied on, something he did complain about, and harshly: “It’s unfortunate that they send you to spy, I don’t know where it came from or who it was, but we identified it. We have photos and we will report the case where appropriate,” he insisted.
Lorenzo thinks about his game, about staying at the top of the table and about mathematically securing classification sooner rather than later. “The message is the same as always, we must go out and be protagonists. Each game is a different story, Colombia comes to play and win,” he said. “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 working with doctors to mitigate these effects that can cause suffocation,” he said.
Colombia only lost once in Bolivia: it was in 2003. Today it wants to maintain that streak.
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