Carlos Antonio Vélez called the legacy of José Néstor Pékerman with the Colombia national team of “myth chimbo”

For the commentator, the idolatry held by large sectors of sport in Colombia regarding the work of the Argentine coach is more a “myth” than a balance with satisfactory results.

The statements, made as part of a tribute to fifty years of journalistic work, were delivered to SEMANA in their Sunday edition.

Vélez, who never concealed his criticism of the Argentine maneuver, said:

He broke down figures to highlight that what Pékerman obtained at the head of the Colombian national team is not as significant, as he considers, given the panorama of praise that populates the fans and certain sectors of sports journalism:

For Velez, these numbers are quite close to those obtained by Reinaldo Rueda during his time at the national team. He even criticized certain player choices based, according to him, more on relations with the coach than on his football moment:

For Vélez, Pékerman is a “chimbo myth”, a “ghost”, and that was taken out “the day it was”:

Carlos Queiroz: victim of a coup d'état, according to Vélez

The coach, who will miss the World Cup, went to Carlos Antonio Vélez, a “victim” of the players' dressing room that he has criticized after the debacle in the qualifying round.

For Vélez, who has maintained that the qualification was lost in two key matches, a large part of the responsibility should be assigned to the players he aspires not to see in a new round after Qatar, in addition the pandemic prevented him from developing his game plan to the fullest with the selected ones: “It is that he did not lead in Colombia. He came here a few weeks, a few weeks! , because she had the whole pandemic in Portugal, and here we had a dignitary who said: “The airport is closed and to open it they pass over my corpse”.

In context | This was the unpublished talk that Carlos Antonio Velez had with James Rodríguez - Infobae

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