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Blue fans used to joke for a long time that the National Team that Jorge Sampaoli coached and that went to the World Cup in Brazil and won the Copa América 2015 was “The reinforced U”. That’s right. The coach joined in that team the pillars of the Golden Generation with the base of the team that had won the 2011 South American Cup.
Something that brought back memories of the 90s, when Nelson Acosta chose to use the U as a base on the route to the World Cup in France, adding to the few players who were active abroad at the time, starting with Iván Zamorano and Marcelo Salas.
However, little by little the blue presence has been decreasing considerably in La Roja and, in fact, today it was graphed in a fact that did not happen long ago: no player from Hernán Caputto’s squad will be part of the start of the Qualifiers to Qatar.
Category and hierarchy
“The U players will always be available for the National Team”He pointed out a couple of months ago Caputto, asked if it was a problem for Rueda to summon one of his pupils.
And although behind closed doors at the CDA they know that in terms of football it can be positive for the cohesion of the group not to have absences, it is still true that having a team selected gives it institutional prestige and, eventually, it values its players.
“It is something very important for a club, because it gives it category and hierarchies it”, added Caputto himself.
In fact, the U had 5 summoned to the recent Rueda microcycle, not counting Jimmy Martinez, who was injured earlier and was unable to participate in work sessions.
And of course, the one who seemed with better options, Pablo Aránguiz, He was out of the race due to the fracture that will keep him off the courts until next year. But the rest –Fernando de Paul, Diego Carrasco, Camilo Moya and Nicolás Guerra– Apparently none managed to convince the Colombian.
These last two, by the way, values formed in the blue quarry and the great investment projects for the future of the club.
Pablo Aránguiz could appear on this list, but he was out of the race before his time.
A gradual decline
Reviewing the latest relevant payrolls from La Roja, there were always blue players. Although the truth is that most of them were consolidated figures that were part of the process years ago.
For example, in the last call by Juan Antonio Pizzi for the failed World Cup Qualifiers in Russia, were Johnny Herrera, Gonzalo Jara, Jean Beausejour and Mauricio Pinilla.
In the Rueda’s first payroll, in March 2018 for the friendlies against Sweden and Denmark, Herrera and Beausejour were repeated. And only the latter appeared among those mentioned for the Copa América in Brazil last year.
But even before the resignation of “Bose” to the Selection, the U had managed to have a presence. In the last official call de Rueda before the break – for the duels against Colombia and Guinea in October last year, goalkeeper Gonzalo Collao had surprisingly appeared, who today just plays for Extremadura of the Third Division of Spain.
Today, the U has zero nominated player. A blow to pride, because in addition, it is the only great without summoned.
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