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Juan Cruz Real was harshly criticized before and after assuming the technical direction of América de Cali, but today he is enjoying the joy of having given the club its 15th star in Colombia, which represents the two-time championship.
He is the first Argentine coach to be champion with the ‘red devils’ and this Sunday he expressed his joy in the press conference after the 2-0 that Santa Fe won, but that it was not enough to leave the crown in Bogotá.
Here are their top responses:
If you don’t suffer, it’s not America. Does that phrase make sense today?
“A huge joy, we have worked a lot together with the players this year, they made themselves available from the first day we arrived, winning players, who wanted to continue winning things, even though we came with a different methodology, with an idea different game from the one they had been doing and even so they were predisposed, they were always in the moments when we had to stabilize a process, we have only been at the club for 5 months, we knew we were coming to a place of great demand. The truth is that the criticisms they made us, some allowed us to learn, others I think were unfair, I think it leaves a life experience because in the end one is a worker like any other, and when one criticizes, you have to be careful that criticism I do not touch the lack of respect or humiliation, but I am not to pass an account to anyone, who enjoys the fans of America, I understand that they speak from the feeling.
To thank Adrián (Ramos) here, who was a leader all the time, we chose him since we arrived, he returned after a successful career in Spain, he returned putting his prestige at stake, the son of Valle del Cauca returns to be champion ”.
What was the idea at the beginning and then when receiving the goals from Santa Fe?
“In the first half we felt a bit of the height, although we were defending well, in a stopped ball they score us. The second goal, before the first half is over, a player of ours lying on the court at one meter and the second goal is generated, it seems to me that you have to have that ‘fair play’ that is said, because if not at the end we do anything to win. In the second half we adjusted well, we played a good second half, we had situations to score a goal. In the last 10 minutes we decided to put a line of five because we knew that Santa Fe was going to play long balls, the entrance of Ramos, we tried to gather more people in that defensive line because we knew that in their desperation they were going to try to put the ball in the middle all the time, in the first it cost us and added to that I think the second goal was an injustice, not the referee, but the situation as it happened, and that made everything tighten more. “
Did you know that he is the first Argentine coach to be champion with America?
“It makes me very happy to be the first Argentine coach to win with this great team, but what makes me most happy is the way we did it, because this team changed the way they played, but what makes me most happy It is about the way of playing, it changed a lot of interpreters, initialists, we had the opportunity to put young players who responded very well, today for example we had to play with Andrade, Pablo Ortiz, Santiago Moreno, Luis Sánchez … They have had the opportunity to play Batalla, Barreiro, there are many young people and that must be said, we must recognize the people who work in training, they have adapted very well, the great ones have always been, Paz, Carrascal, Éder Chaux, to support them and make them put their feet on the ground. This team reinvented itself, it came from a winning process, it reinvented itself with another way of playing, the tie was different, these guys eliminated Nacional and Junior, the two most powerful rosters ”.
What did you correct at halftime, because you did not suffer in the complementary stage?
“I think the first half we suffered a bit with the height, and in the second with the entry of Ureña, who entered very well, he gave us a little more consistency in that double containment midfielder, we also generally improved in the time of the ball, we were able to control the game more, we were better positioned, our goal was further out on the field. In the first half it is not that we did not want to, but that the rival was leading us, then in the last 10 minutes we made the decision to put together a structure of five defenders to be able to play all those aerial balls and we also had arrivals “.
Marco Antonio Garcés
Correspondent Futbolred Cali
On twitter: @marquitosgarces
