A week after the closing of the South American Qualifiers, in which the national team was left without a ticket to the Qatar 2022 World Cup, there is still talk of who can replace Reinaldo Rueda on the bench, despite the fact that the Colombian Football Federation (FCF) has not withdrawn him from office.
Marcelo Bielsa, who is without a team after his step to the side at Leeds; Tigre Gareca, who would leave Peru once the top football competition had been played, and Tite, with plenty of experience in Brazilian football, are some of the candidates in the sports press. He has also applied to some Colombian coaches.
Sports commentator Carlos Antonio Vélez proposed Luis Fernando Suárez, now the coach of the Costa Rican national team, to lead the tricolor team in the next world cup. As in football the question is about results, why not think about Antioquia? , if it qualified Ecuador to the 2010 World Cup, Honduras to the 2014 World Cup and, now, guaranteed the Ticos the title of the Concacaf repechage.
“The coach from abroad is Luis Fernando Suárez, who was not on anyone's radar. As a result of what has been done with Costa Rica, we must look at it. You have to look at it, that's all. Since there is an absolute disregard for the local and a love of foreign lies here, then I know that it is difficult for them to digest that name and surname, but I think the executories support it. Two World Cups, a man who arrives and rebuilds a team through a direct message,” he said.
Velez also dared to give the name of another Colombian as coach of the Tricolor, although he does not have experience at the national team level. This is Alberto Gamero, who has won two league titles, one with Boyacá Chicó and the other with Deportes Tolima.
“So many wallow, I love that they do, I have to put Alberto Gamero on. This is a racist country, that is duly demonstrated. And Gamero, because of the look, because I don't know... that because he sweats a lot, that because he sweats a lot, that because he has a lot of bracelets on his arms. I know it bothers a lot of people, but what do we do?”
One of the Central American teams led by Suárez was Honduras. He qualified this team for the 2014 Brazil World Cup, ranking third in Concacaf. The first to lead this team to a world championship event was Reinaldo Rueda.
With Ecuador he also had an achievement to highlight: he qualified him for the 2010 World Cup and, with his hand, this team advanced for the first time to the instances of the round of 16, where they fell to England by the slightest difference.
Before stopping in Costa Rica, the one born in Medellín sounded, at some point, as coach of the tricolor team after the departure of Carlos Queiroz. He was also related as a possible coach of America de Cali, to which Juan Carlos Osorio finally arrived, when Juan Cruz Real stepped aside. Will they consider it at any time for the Colombia national team?
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