The Former player of the Colombian National Team, Freddy Rincón, stated his position regarding the moment that Colombian soccer is experiencing in the international arena, taking advantage of the hard elimination of Millonarios and Atlético Nacional by Copa Libertadores. Without a doubt, a situation that put ‘the finger in the wound’ taking into account the panorama of the tricolor in the Qualifiers, where they need a miracle to qualify for the World Cup.
Rincón went further and in his x-ray he not only criticized soccer managers, but also spoke of the work of the minor divisions and the importance of involving former soccer players in the processes, both managers and sports. He said all this and more in a chat with Caracol Radio’s Vbar.
“You have to keep an eye on the lower divisions. I see that there are many former players with a lot to contribute but they are not taken into account. Here there is no team like Independiente del Valle in terms of organization or the way they get players. Colombia believed that with what they had, it was already good,” Rincón said when asked about why Colombian teams are in a “fallen layer” in international tournaments.
And he added that “here a scandal is uncovered one day and a new one the next, and everything remains the same, nothing happens. Those who rule in football do not care about anything else, but being there being the protagonists of something they are not. It is difficult for football to go like this”.
On the other hand, he recognized the importance of having a man who knows football like Mario Alberto Yepes within the Colombian National Team and questioned both the FCF and Dimayor for not giving a space to those who he believes can give a “boost”. Rincón remembered his time in Brazil. “There are no soccer representatives within federations. How do they want Colombian soccer to grow if they limit, there is oppression in that regard, to those who can give a boost. I lived in Brazil for 20 years and I know that they get where they get because it is another way in which they work despite the fact that there is corruption, there they know how to take advantage of it. They think they are alive, but here Colombian soccer, internationally, is sick, not to say dead because that word is already very strong”.
