“This generation wants to win to leave something in history”

The Colombia selection
He works in Barranquilla thinking about the South American Qualifiers, against Peru and Argentina, but also in mind the participation in the Copa América 2021.

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For that reason, Reinaldo Rueda
, technician of the national team, in attention to the media, this Sunday, referred to the international contest and the objectives that are outlined.

“The objective is to first wait for the completion of the Copa América, we are with expectation and anxiety, what the players feel, we, is that we have uncertainty about what we live in South America, and each that all of us as coaching staff and Players we put on the National Team is with responsibility, a challenge and the pressure that we put on ourselves ”, he stated at the outset.

In addition, Rueda Rivera emphasized that “in elite football there is always wanting to win, it is what we all feel, it is the great illusion that this great generation has and that they want to win something to leave for the history of Colombian football. It is the purpose that unites us, and the conviction of what we have as a team and we must make good use of it and we hope that the Copa América can be held in the best conditions, and losing our headquarters is not an excuse, it is not an argument for not to demand 500 percent of ourselves, to achieve the goal that we all want ”.

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Finally, the coach of the Colombian National Team spoke of the loss of the country’s headquarters over the Copa América.

“Naturally, having to decline to the Copa América here hurt us a lot., and the player’s concern is that, and also the logistics, we do not know where to organize a trip, everything that had been advanced here in all the cities where we were going to host, all that work was lost and so we are the expectation of what Conmebol says and responding in a contingency plan and complying with the competition and after these two qualifying dates allow us to have a tournament with everything that the Copa América requires ”, he concluded.

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