James Rodríguez started the year 2021 again on the court, although he suffered the defeat of Everton against West Ham Premier League, however, the cucuteño is ready for a year that He will have multiple individual challenges for him and groups for the English team and for the Colombian National Team.
After a 2020 that for him had a good second half in which he managed to regain continuity in English football, Now is the time to consolidate and go in search of big goals.
The year will start with important Premier League and FA Cup matches. Carlo Ancelotti already said: the great challenge for his team this season is to qualify for a European tournament and fight in one of the Cups. As it has already been eliminated from the League Cup, there is the FA Cup, which will begin this week against Rotherham.
Today, Everton is in sixth place in a very close Premier. In the immediate future, James will try to recover the level shown in the first days, when he was the soccer leader of the team thanks to his intelligence and his ability to pass. That will be the great challenge of these first months: to go back to playing as he did at the beginning of the tournament and for Everton to establish itself in the European zone.
The FA Cup is just starting and the road is long, however for everyone at Goodison Park it is a key objective. To shine in the oldest tournament in the world is another desire of the number 19.
At the end of March another of the great challenges of the year will arrive: the Qualifiers. In 2021, a good part of the fate of the Colombian National Team will be defined towards the World Cup. Brazil and Paraguay will be the first rivals. This year ten games will be played and the Tricolor needs the best James, the one who played in the debut against Venezuela.
When the English season is over, the America’s Cup at home. Colombia wants to be in the final on July 10 at the Metropolitano de Barranquilla and, of course, James too.
For the second half of the year, Everton dreams of playing one of the European cups and there will also be a good part of the World Cup qualifying phase.
Ultimately, it will be a year full of matches and responsibilities for one of the great Colombian footballers of this time.
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