Johnny Herrera: “Caputto was a useful fool for Vargas and Goldberg”

Johnny Herrera (39) attends Third fulfilling father’s duties. It is her turn to take care of her son Bruno, her great love. His wife Steffi Scholtbach is doing her shift as a nurse at a clinic in Viña del Mar. At times, the conversation is interrupted by Brunito, as the Angolino calls him. The archer responds to all your requirements. But that’s another Johnny. He has another voice. He is not the same person who is used to shooting against situations that do not seem to him. Upon rejoining the conversation, the usual Samurai returns.

What balance do you make of the first half of Everton?

I have shown that I am super current, which gives me to project myself another year. Thank God I have been able to play every game. And without injury. That tormented me a bit last year at the U. My back was very bad. As a group I think the team is ready for more. Rubio, Copete and González left us. We have been competitive and with the arrival of the forwards we will be protagonists.

Are you physically okay? There was a photo that ended up being a meme because of its physical build …

They killed me with that photo. Widescreen, no HD. The wrinkled shirt, they made me pebre. But later my wife uploaded a photo with the calugas marked. It made me laugh. It will be very difficult that one day they will see me like this. That’s where my jacket-coat friends took advantage of them, dreaming of seeing me on the ground. But I am still the same weight as always, the same fat.

How do you see the duels against Peru and Venezuela?

They are two key parties. Chile has to win four minimum points. Later it costs a lot to recover them. I hope the team performs. At least Vidal and Sánchez are on fire. That gives illusion.

Should Rueda go if he doesn’t get all four points?

Many of us were half displaced with the calls of the Selection. The archers theme, for example. But being so drastic about lowering the curtain is still early. If Chile loses disastrously it will be different, but hopefully it can finish its process and let it work. I wouldn’t want it to go away.

Do you approve the payroll?

Yes, but I still miss Mena. Also to Marcelo Díaz who could have covered all those in that position who did not come on the first date. But the teacher will have his arguments. Now he called Beausejour and was retired. They are surprises that one finds it difficult to understand, but he will have his reasons. Hopefully it works for you.

Is it not very serious that Beausejour returns?

We will have to see the need for the teacher. I think he will play with three centrals. I wanted that in U; because you can’t ask players of that age to run 100 meters.

But did it catch your attention?

Yes of course. Because he had resigned. But beyond the level of Beausejour in the U, they are players who perform in the National Team.

For the level of the U it does not deserve to be nominated

There are many players who perform more in the National Team than in the clubs. Now I don’t think that Beausejour had so much responsibility at the time of the U. For me the schemes with which the U played were terrible.

Do you have a Selection level?

I think that with the game with Uruguay I could have contributed. Maybe if Chile played it had two more dots.

Don’t you feel that Rueda isn’t clear about it in the goal? He did not call Arias, a fixed one in his cycle.

I don’t know what was going through his head. For me the goalkeeper who performs is the one who has to play. I get the feeling that Arias didn’t have a good time when he played. Cortés had done it more or less in friendlies, but had to pay for points. I think he didn’t do it badly, but maybe Chile has other goalkeepers that can be there. The one from Iquique deserves a chance and doesn’t even appear in the comics. And there does appear a First B goalkeeper who has not had more than ten games in First. And they are not 18 year old archers.

Do you like Arias?

It is that the second goalkeeper must be prepared to be the first. Arias gives you that feeling that you are not having a good time, perhaps you should look the other way.

Because of pressure and criticism?

Yes, exactly. He had problems with his family and that is not comfortable. More when he is such a consolidated goalkeeper, in an important team. Coming to wear out doesn’t suit you either.

Are Cortés’s hysterical screams distracting or contributing?

He demonstrated that he has a good booming voice. I am more of concrete indications. The ‘come on, come on’ no longer runs. I was very nervous, but it is understandable. He did good.

What did you think of Caputto’s departure?

It is complex. I would have waited for these two months of soccer to end and I would have evaluated it. Although his evaluation was lousy, but he would have waited. But the people who decided to kick him out are in their own right. It is valid. They were inside and they knew what was going on in the dressing room.

What was happening in the dressing room?

What they told me was that he had half the dressing room up to his head because of the decisions he made and the way he worked. He was a technician without character, who according to what the goats tell me made absurd decisions. The conviction towards the players had long since lost. He is the coach with the least character I have ever met. But they always hit him, you could tell that the decisions were made by the people from above. Caputto was a puppet, a useful fool for Goldberg and Vargas, who used him to do what was sung to them.

Have you ever seen him qualified to direct at the U?

No zero. More the way it came. If you do not have values ​​and you leave a team thrown a month away from the U17 World Cup, it is because you care very little about the rest. With those values ​​you will not do well. Today it is where it needs to be; outside the club and not leading the first team, which is a greater responsibility. He had no character.

Caputto blames Aubert, the new president.

It’s laughable to say that. It’s like I’m fighting with my wife and I blame the building janitor. It is absurd, it has nothing to do with it.

Does he not speak from the injury because Caputto took him out of the club?

No, I have always thought the same. And he doesn’t take me out of the club. Nor was he the one who communicated to me. He went to my house, but I already knew. The Third had thrown it away the morning before. In fact, when he communicated it to me, I already knew. That he made the decisions, peanut.

You said that Arias was the worst coach who directed you at U. What place does Caputto place?

Arias is the blackest coach, Caputto is the one with the least personality. In First I had bad technicians but at least they had personality to direct in First.

And what responsibility do you attribute to Vargas and Goldberg?

All. They took Arias, they put Caputto when the Valencia Egg had been, who had done much better. For me it was because Caputto was a friend of Vargas. It’s the same story as when Vargas took Capitano. And they kept it when he had fewer points than Arias. And, curiously, the team started to win when it was my turn to enter. What did you do to hold it? You were eliminated in the first phase of the Cup, they gave you a Chile Cup final and you lost it. Little understandable decisions. Its hard for me to understand. Everyone says he took the hot iron, but you pass the first team to any club official and you pay him five times more than his salary and he will want to do it. Perhaps not, because there are people who have more values ​​and if they take them to work with the lower ones, they stay lower.

Do you like Dudamel?

I don’t know him, but I wish him the best. Bringing in a pick manager shouldn’t be easy. That the U return to be the protagonist, that it play forwards going to look for the parties, not mouseing like this technician who has just left. It was a shame that every two games the U had two shots on target. I did not fit that technician came to that position with so little. I hope the U is filled with mystique as before.

Did Heller believe your excuses for not selling?

I thought I was going to sell. When something doesn’t work, you have to let go of it. Now we all know that it was a terrible business, that it was a lot of loss, and the fact that he did not want to sell was because there were representatives. But in the end it is the same as selling it to a businessman. I would have sold him to a representative, but let him be serious.

Would you like to retire at the U?

I dont know. I have spoken with Cristián Aubert, he has told me that he wants me to retire at the U, that he would love it. I don’t know if it can. There is De Paul, who has been regular. There is Campos, which has a spectacular projection. But the stupid coach who was before didn’t quote him at the end. I would not like to cover them, I don’t know. But I do know that I have a couple of years left and I am very happy at Everton. Maybe we are in the U, but not as a footballer, as something else.