“If Colombia wins the repechage, it won't be for Reinaldo Rueda”: Andrés Marocco's fight against the national team coach

Despite the fact that the tricolor team ended the goal drought, after beating Ecuador 3-0, Reinaldo Rueda continues to receive strong criticism

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This Tuesday, March 29, the Colombian national team will visit Venezuela to play the last date of the South American Qualifiers to Qatar 2022, a match that will be held at the Cachamay Stadium, in Puerto Ordaz. In the last match, which was against Bolivia, the national team opened up a small chance of going to the World Cup after winning 3-0.

The final day will be crucial for Colombia, as it will depend on the results of other matches to be able to go to the repechage. Now, it should be borne in mind that there are two more teams that are in the same situation as the squad led by Reinaldo Rueda: Peru and Chile.

In the last match, Liverpool striker Luis Diaz was in charge of opening the scoring in the 39th minute. With this, Colombia left behind the streak of not having scored a goal in the last 7 games. In fact, the team's last goal was scored by Díaz against Chile.

Faced with this situation, Reinaldo Rueda, coach of the national squad, received a lot of criticism as the team did not score in 680 minutes during the qualifying dates for Qatar. Although Colombia ended this drought last Thursday, journalist Andrés Marocco, who works at EPSN and is part of the F360 program, launched a strong criticism for the national team in the face of the match against Venezuela, assuring that if Colombia manages to go to the repechage, this achievement would not be for him.

If Colombia wins the repechage, it won't be for Reinaldo Rueda. As we have seen things, unfortunately, it must be said that Reinaldo's hand was not seen in the national team, at least for positive things. I don't expect a big change and I have to be very sincere; we improved against Bolivia and hopefully we keep what we showed, because it was also a match that we didn't suffer,” said the journalist on the sports program.

In addition, Marocco confessed that he believes that the vallecaucano coach will not continue to lead the national team until Colombia is given the results and enters the repechage. “There you can think of continuity and also see what happens in the repechage, because it is to see how you win it if it comes. If we see more of the same, stuck to the club and score a goal and we end up winning like this, and 'santa arepa' appears to us, and Paraguay also wins, I would not like to have Reinaldo for such an important match.”

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