Duván Zapata’s memories of Colombia’s elimination from Copa América 2019 (COLOMBIA SELECTION)

Almost a year has passed since the participation of ‘la Tricolor’ in that South American competition, which was the debut in official matches for Carlos Queiroz, and in this Atalanta striker was one of the outstanding players. And although it is already past, Duván Zapata’s memories of Colombia’s elimination from Copa América 2019 reflect the disappointment that was brought about by the penalty shootout against Chile, in which the caleó did not kick.

After 0-0 in the 90 minutes, the national team went to the penalties with the southern team to decide the team that advanced to the semifinal. After the first four collections, William Tesillo missed the last and the Chileans took the opportunity to advance to the next and sink the Colombians in a feeling of frustration and disappointment.

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In an interview with the program ‘ESPN FC Colombia’ the Atalanta forward explained why he did not receive any of the penalties of that match against Chile, which ended with the participation of ‘la Tricolor’ in that tournament for the collection of William Tesillo who ended up outside:

“In the Cup the expectations were high because he came from having a very good tournament and breaking records in the Italian Calcium with Atalanta. He arrived at the team with a good atmosphere and with great expectations from everyone in the group to be able to give joy to the country.

We got so excited after the group stage went that way, so we were all excited to keep growing as a team, right?

To be able to do things well and in a certain way give a cup to all of Colombia again, I think we need it at this time, it has been a long time since Colombia was champion.

Later in the match against Chile we were surprised, we knew it was a difficult match, the matches with Chile are always complicated, the penalty shoot-out came and unfortunately we missed and we had to leave.

After all the good we had done in the group stage, he collapsed in a penalty shootout. I entered the final minutes and knew that at some point I was going to have a chance to kick.

But the day before we had been practicing, two three days ago, because we knew that this possibility of reaching the penalty shoot-out could come. They kicked the best in training and in the game they also kicked well, unfortunately for ‘Tesi’ (Tesillo) who seems to me to be the only one who missed.

But they kicked just as they were practicing, so it is very worthwhile and getting there is not easy. I was a sixth or seventh collector, so you can imagine how I was in training if I was the sixth or seventh and just entering.

It happened that way and we had to stay outside “

Duván Zapata’s memories of Colombia’s elimination from Copa América 2019 explained why he did not kick any of the penalties in that match against Chile. He also showed that in that competition he had high expectations, for the goals he had scored in the group stage and for the enthusiasm with which the group arrived that was just beginning to be led by Carlos Queiroz.

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