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A little more than 17 years have passed, since Jorge Fossati visited Medellín to face Atlético Nacional. On that October 2, 2003, the Uruguayan coach faced the purslane with Liga Deportiva Universitaria de Quinto in the South American Cup and on that night, his team fell by the minimum with a goal from Carlos Giraldo, confirming the qualification to the third phase for the whole of Antioquia.
Before this Wednesday’s game, the Uruguay River Plate coach spoke on the ‘People, Passion and Football’ program, where he spoke about the football that he likes to implement in his teams and praised his colleague Juan Carlos Osorio.
“Teams defend well or defend badly, so sometimes in order to achieve one thing, we are harmed in the other. Of the two great things in football since this sport was invented and looking around for different words, we forget that football has two goals, you have to know how to attack and know how to defend. I look for in my teams to have the necessary balance, when I attack offends and when I defend I am solid, ”said coach Fossati.
As for what he wants from his teams, the ‘charrúa’ specified that “I don’t understand that I have to come out with different approaches, whether I play home or away, I don’t believe in speculation. If any speculation is made, I take into account the end of the match, not from the beginning. Each game is different, it has its own strategy, but the idea I want of the teams does not change me, he usually raised them in the same way, with some details ”. When he visited Atanasio, with the Quito League, his formation was 3-4-1-2, something similar to what he has raised with River in recent games.
Finally, he spoke about Juan Carlos Osorio and his idea of the game. “Each one has a school, a philosophy that must be respected with colleagues. It seems to me that the ‘teacher’ (Juan Carlos Osorio) does things very similar to what Guardiola’s Barcelona did. With the recovery after losing the ball, that team did very well and that was the highlight of that team and the most difficult to achieve. Not so much that other part that stood out from that Barcelona with the continuity of short passes and the possession of the ball that they did in a very good way. Sometimes it comes out, sometimes it doesn’t come out, in some things I share, in another I think differently, but well. From a very young age, some things that the coaches left me, is that all ideas are valid, I have one in which I am fully convinced ”.
Juan Camilo Alvarez Serrano
FUTBOLRED correspondent
Medellin
On Twitter: @ juanchoserran8
