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September 27 was the last time that Aldo Bobadilla was on the bench at Deportivo Independiente Medellín, the Paraguayan is leaving after 33 directed matches, where he won 15, lost 11 and tied seven. For a yield of 52.5 percent. Winner of the Copa Colombia 2019, he could not follow that good step in the League and in the Copa Libertadores he was eliminated two dates after the end of the group stage. Here are five causes of the coach’s departure.
Players exit: Of the team that won the Colombia Cup, only kept two starting players: Andrés Cadavid and Jesús Murillo. Between January 2020, the break from March to September, important players left the team and the replacements left much to be desired. Unknown players and the command doubt if they came for other interests beyond sports, which condemned the Guarani to leave the institution.
Weak results: He says the phrase ‘you can’t cover the sun with one finger’ and not everything can be shielded in the Colombia Cup. In the second semester it did not classify among the eight in the League, in this League it is out of the classifieds and although it entered the group stage of the Copa Libertadores, it accumulated six defeats in the continental tournament, with little football and weak team that condemned its elimination and projects to be one of the worst teams in this instance of the Cup.
Deal with the press: The episode with journalist Óscar Tobón was the straw that broke the camel’s back. In various press conferences and media attention, Bobadilla was defiant, ill-tempered and rude to communicators. The treatment was not the best during this year and although the questions were “silly”, as he referred to, there are better ways to behave.
A project with doubts: Before resuming the competition, Medellín announced an ambitious sports project that sought to achieve three Leagues and a Copa Libertadores in the span of three years, with players from the quarry. Although Bobadilla approved this project, the parties did not show his commitment to young people and he put them in because he didn’t have more on the payroll. An example is that he put several forwards and the only ones who repeated as starters were Carlos Monges and Leonardo Castro. He gave Yulián Gómez a game and a half, and then ‘erase it’, knowing that he was returning from a hard injury. Not even he believed in that project and he was just “burning” boys.
Confusing approaches: In front of Boca, Bobadilla spoke at the press conference several times about “counter-order” and that the team had not reflected on the court what they had worked on. The doubt remains if the players did not understand what they should do on the court or did not have the men to raise their idea of the game. That at times it was very diffuse, but that it had a load of play to the ‘ball’ and with a lot of disorder.
Juan Camilo Alvarez Serrano
FUTBOLRED correspondent
Medellin
On twitter: @ juanchoserran8
