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The two best Colombian players in the World Cups, James Rodríguez in Brazil 2014 and Yerry Mina in Russia 2018, will meet at the Everton English, a traditional club, big if you like, but run down. In England he is the fourth with the most league titles, below Manchester United, Liverpool (his longtime rival, his close classic enemy) and Arsenal, but he hasn’t fought anything for 35 years.
So our two World Cup superstars are in a second-rate club. More clearly: James, the most important Colombian footballer of all time (even if they get brave Freddy Rincón or the ‘Tino’ Asprilla) He is in Everton, a sign of the clothes that Colombian football has, which several of the members of the football intelligentsia have claimed without blushing to win the World Cup. They blow and make bottles.
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For James, Everton and the coach Carlo Ancelotti, His ‘guardian of the bay’, the personal lifeguard who always rescues him from the drowning of substitution and inactivity, represents perhaps his last chance to return to the world elite and re-green the glory of that prodigious left-hander who dazzled the planet 6 years ago , when he was the World Cup scorer sensation and the galactic hiring of the biggest team on the planet.
That it arrives at Everton and depreciated by more than 50 percent of what the Real Madrid it is the simple indicator of your reality in recent years. But beyond the proclamation of the ‘false moralists and owners of good football customs’, who also blow and make bottles, James’ inactivity has a certain cause: injuries, which have been his main and real enemy.
In just the last two and a half years (since February 15, 2018), and according to data from the portal Transfermarkt, James has suffered 11 injuries that caused a disability of 211 days (seven months wrongly counted!), And without adding the times of physical and football fitness.
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In just these two and a half years in the Bayern Munich and Real Madrid He suffered four calf injuries (soleus), one ankle, a knee ligament tear and strain, adductor discomfort, hip injury, and also an unknown, unreported injury.
At the beginning of last European season, when he decided to leave Bayern because he wanted to live in Madrid and finally stayed at Real led by Zinedine ZidaneJames got off to a good start to the league, to the point that the influential sports tabloids in the Spanish capital claimed that Madrid’s best signing had been his return.
But in November of last year he was injured: first for 10 days (the disease was never reported) and then he damaged the ligaments in his knee, so he was out of the team for 38 days. He missed 11 matches, in which Zidane mounted his scheme of fast and strong wing players in heads-up. James ended up on the bench.
It is so easy and simple for journalists, commentators, footballers involved in opinion and fans to affirm, with a papal voice in a Good Friday sermon, that James is more aware of his appearance on Instagram, his children and his partner than of the game and your professional career. It is so easy and simple for them to manage other people’s money to affirm that how is it possible that the salary is not lowered to go to any other team. Yes, they blow and make bottles.
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The great and real problem of James inactivity have been his injuries, as well as Yerry Mina. Today, when South America is one more month away from starting the tie for Qatar World Cup 2022, Colombia reunites in the apocopated Everton of Ancelotti, who tries to recover the old glories lost 35 years ago, James and Mina, its two best players in World Cup history, two crystal stars.
Hopefully James, the great crash that the Colombian National Team has, who in one leg and without having continuity of play has been the most influential and destabilizing of the team, find that continuity. But for that he must overcome his main and real enemy: injuries.
GABRIEL MELUK
Sports Editor
@MelukLeCuenta
