In a Live with TEN in Facebook and Youtube, the Colombian coach Luis Fernando Suarez remembered his time at the Honduras Selection, the Aztecazo and the sadness it gives him when the Chilean who scored came to mind Juan Carlos García.
Photos: This is how the Honduras national team hotel looks like in Siguatepeque
Suárez began by talking about how the confinement due to the coronavirus pandemic lives in Colombia. He assures that what he misses the most is the time with his first grandson.
“One realizes the banalities, the superfluous things that are not important, of going out just to go out, because he wants to show himself, you go to a place and ask for strange things and now you are at home with a T-shirt and you live in peace with it. Sometimes that is important. If socialization is missed and it is good. In my case I am just a grandfather for the first time and that is what I miss the most, it is not going out, but the fact of not being able to see my grandson in the present body. “
Remember the “Aztecazo”
Under his command, Honduras qualified more calmly for the Copa del World of Brazil 2014 and conquered the historic Aztecazo after beating Mexico 2-1 in his own house.
“It was a very nice story. Aside from what the boys did for that game against the Mexicans on other people’s courts, in the way they faced it, the character, personality and desire to represent the country well was unique. What I have to do is thank the boys who were and the way they lived, what they did and the way they responded, “he said.
He acknowledges that the Aztecazo marked him, but also left him a pleasant feeling for what it meant to beat the Tri.
“It was felt when we were there the look of the Mexican who said:” this is going to be ‘very easy’ what is going to happen in this game. Beating them on their own field, which only Costa Rica and we have achieved, leaves a very pleasant feeling for all that that entails. “
The key to beat Mexico? He says that since the team concentrated in Fort Lauderdale they felt they could get the win.
“I do not know why I was sure that the game or we won. The way the team trained in the United States, when we arrived I saw the team very safe. So it did not surprise me that we won. When we scored the goal, I felt a distress, but the way I saw it I said: this team is capable of drawing and winning. Starting the second half those two goals came, andOr I didn’t see how Mexico could even tie us, much less beat us. I was very sure. “
At TEN we showed him the postcard where after the game all the players celebrated, but he looked calm.
“What I liked the most, I am going to say and I hope it does not sound pedantic because it is not, was the Mexican feeling of helplessness, that they were completely sure that they were going to beat us and that one on that full court comes out with his head held high and smiling, it is a good feeling. Hopefully it doesn’t sound arrogant but it was good to feel it, in the end I felt a lot of joy. “
It makes him sad to remember the goal of Juan Carlos García
Suárez was reminded of the Chilean goal he scored Juan Carlos García before the United States at the Olympic Stadium and his face after that goal. But he noted the sadness that today generates to review it.
“In disbelief. It was an incredible goal, I did not think so. But it makes me sad to remember it for what happened next. They are two people who I love very much, who are no longer there, and at one point I did not thank them for what they did for me. When I heard about the deaths of Juan Carlos and Arnold Peralta I cried of sadness. I also cried because I could not say thank you for everything they gave you, you must have the feeling of being grateful. “
He recalled that when the World Cup in Brazil ended, he thanked the players through the media and did it again. “Today I take the opportunity to tell them that if it had not been for them, I am not what I am. Saying it today for me is important, doing it after having mourned the death of Juan Carlos and Arnold,” he closed.
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