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The Colombian striker, Carlos Bacca, revealed this Thursday that he did not feel comfortable in the Colombia selection under the direction of the Argentine coach Joseph Pékerman, largely, due to a lack of confidence and opportunities.
“They are things that you keep, but I lacked that confidence, it is something that I never had from the teacher, I played because I had been doing it in my team. There were moments in the National Team in which Falcao and Jackson were injured and there was only Bacca, I lacked that confidence that the striker needs from day to day“Bacca told ESPN Colombia.
In addition, he revealed that, as a result of the process he was taking in the ‘Tricolor’, he thought he would be a starter, both in the World Cups of Brazil 2014 and Russia 2018, situation that did not happen. “I remember that when the 2014 World Cup was going to start I was a starter two days before and In a soccer practice they took me out and put Ibarbo in, that hurt me a lot“he specified.
Regarding the championship in Russia, the Atlantic attacker added that something similar happened: “Against Japan I was the starter, when we were training and the night before the game the teacher called me to his room, almost at one in the morning and they told me I was going to play Cuadrado, it was a hard time, it hurt“
Finally, as Bacca explained, the support of their environment was key to overcome these moments, since, at those moments, he was emotionally affected. “I had only lived with my family, because I cried before the game and in Brazil it was the same because I had worked to be a starter“he concluded.
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