It was not a reproach, it was rather a nostalgic memory that came to his memory, of those times in which the Colombian National Team was in unbreakable communion with its fans. Today the distance is undeniable and can be explained by the poor results, but it shouldn’t be like that, especially now when everything is going against us.
It was the feeling that Falcao gave in his attention to the press, this Sunday, from Argentina, where Colombia will play the rest in its desire to stay alive in the Qatar 2022 Qualifiers.
How do you live internally this moment and the pressure of depending on third parties?
The frustration we feel for the defeat against Peru is undeniable, but analyzing the game what we can blame ourselves for was not hitting the chances to score, the team gave everything, we dominated 70 percent, 30 shots to find the goal and they in the only one they had marked. Football is not about merit but it is about goals. Yesterday we talked about what we had to talk about and today we look at the possibility against Argentina, the possibilities are against us but the team believes, and between now and Tuesday we will arrive very strengthened
How to solve that mess of the goal?
You have to insist, there is no other, this is part of the game, success and error is part of football. The only way is to insist, we cannot stay with the complaint. We strikers live similar streaks in our careers, the only thing is to insist, at some point the goal is going to open, Colombia generates the teams that come to Barranquilla, we put Peru in a goal for 75 minutes, few do it, with the The weather, the public, the pressure Colombia submitted to its rival, we couldn’t get the goal but we have to insist.
Impotence
The feeling of not being able to help with goals is not good, the strikers sometimes have a hard time, we would like to define better but the important thing is that the options are being created. There are things that seem supernatural, they are not normal, the ball hits one or the other and comes out, sometimes you also need a bit of luck for it to hit the post and go in, but we continue to believe, we have experienced similar situations like that game that we lost against Paraguay and then we went to Peru and we achieved it. Now we are out but we continue to believe, we are strong as a team, we know what we have done and it gives us peace of mind because when the goal opens Colombia will play good games, that is what we are missing.
The Argentinian mess
We could have solved it better, there are inexplicable things that have happened. But I think that we can improve in everything and now with Argentina it is a great team that proposes and at some point it can give us spaces to have opportunities facing the rival goal and we need to be prepared, calm down, the first one to enter will open the goal
the support of the people
For some time now, I’ve been living coming to the National Team as if it were one of my last presentations in the team, the national team doesn’t give you time, in a club the contract has a date but in the national team you don’t know what could happen. I have seen many scenarios, one is the one you mention (the repechage), but considering that the odds are against us, we want to challenge those odds and the first ones we have to believe are us, it does not matter if they are in the country or not, the line is the one we work on, we don’t want to hear negative messages, things that don’t add up, only positive things, that make us feel that the country is behind to qualify.
Just like Peru that had 300 fans and cheered them on when Colombia dominated them and they took their victory with their weapons and it was in part that support and we need that, that in difficult times they are the ones who are pushing us.
What to expect from Colombia?
I am not going to promise something that I do not know what will happen, what I can say to the Colombian people is that we are going to fight until the end, we are aware that everything is against us, we have to believe that it is possible
