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And Juan Carlos Osorio left. He knew that his situation was fragile and the Atlético Nacional board knew that patience had run out several weeks ago. Divorce, when all is said, is not only the wisest decision: it is the only one.
But his departure, beyond the justified reasons for the club to interrupt his second coaching process, leaves a feeling that goes against that philosophy of a training team, which empowers youth, who believes in their ‘basic strengths’.
Since Reinaldo Rueda, the Copa Libertadores champion and Suramericana runner-up, left, immediacy has been the new normal for the Antioquia team, which now has 2020 bent on a victory against River Plate of Uruguay (1-1 finished the Going).
It is true that what he has done so far will surely reach him to qualify in the local tournament, but it is difficult to think that with the game shown against Millonarios he will give him to lift the trophy in December … It is football, but optimism has been withering .
Rueda left in the first half of 2017 and since then, in three real years, with six months of suspension due to the pandemic, there was almost one coach per semester: Juan Manuel Lillo, Jorge Almirón, Hernán Darío Herrera, an ‘internship ‘by Alejandro Restrepo from 4 games, Paulo Autuori and Juan Carlos Osorio.
The curious fact is that in the previous 5 years there were only two DTs: Rueda and Osorio himself. Of course, the results in both cases facilitated the long-awaited ‘process’.
But why was there so little patience with each of those laid off? It is worth checking the numbers in each case:
Lillo: 26 matches directed, 14 wins, 4 draws and 8 losses. 33 goals for and 19 against. 59 percent yield
Almiron: 43 matches directed, 23 wins, 11 draws and 9 losses. 49 goals for and 25 against. 62 percent yield
Herrera: 18 matches directed, 9 wins, 5 draws and 4 losses. 25 goals for and 17 against. 59.2 percent yield.
Autuori: 29 matches directed, 10 wins, 10 draws and 9 losses. 31 goals for and 31 against. 46 percent yield.
Osorio: 30 matches directed, 12 wins, 12 draws and 6 losses. 41 goals for and 28 goals against. 53.3 percent yield.
It turns out that, in terms of results, it was Herrera, the one with the least ‘cartel’ of all, the only one who achieved a title: the Copa Colombia in 2018. But that ‘international touch’ that he lacked weighed and, simply, did not they believed.
Later, the one who lasted the longest in office was Almirón, the one who came closest to returning the team to the place where its payroll and its economic strength force it: he was runner-up (he lost against Tolima) and reached the last 16 in the Copa Libertadores ( it was eliminated by A. Tucumán).
And from there there are, more or less, 30 games on average that anyone who wants to reach the technical direction of Atlético Nacional has. It can be a message to the candidates: if they do not deliver results soon, the dream of consolidation becomes utopia. In Nacional, the right is won with photos of the trophies, nothing else works. There are other scenarios for leaving a legacy via ‘process’, but this seems not to be the case.
