After passing through Independiente Santa Fe, Harold Rivera is free and waiting for new opportunities to lead in Colombian soccer. Precisely about his alternatives, the Tolimense coach spoke of the clubs with the most checkbooks in the country.
In dialogue with Caracol Radio’s ‘VBAR’, Rivera gave details of the interest that there was in Junior de Barranquilla while he trained the cardinal squad and the current situation of Atlético Nacional in its search for a new DT.
Regarding the Barranquilla residents, he expressed: “They offered it to me when I was with Independiente Santa Fe. When they told me that, I told them that I had a pending talk with Dr. Eduardo Méndez regarding my contract. I had Santa Fe as my first option and all my loyalty. I sat down to talk with him, he arranged the contract with me and I told them (Junior) that no, I had already arranged”.
Although in the end his process in the capital cadre fell to the depths, the strategist assures that “there were more good things than not so good ones”. Since his departure in August of last year he has “thought a lot” and describes his passage as “important” due to the rise that the payroll had in his hand and even reaching the League final in 2020.
That yes wished to have had “greater raw material” in the final stretch of his management to have been able to achieve the objectives set from the beginning.
Finally, the 51-year-old coach referred to the complicated situation of the Antioquia green and the possibility of directing: “It is logical, who does not want to be in National? In the end one prepares for that and if one does not do it, someone else will”.
“They did tell me something, but so far they are rumours. I have absolutely not spoken to anyone from the Nacional intern. I have a person who talks about it, he told me, but there is nothing concrete as with other teams with which I have been linked”, he added.
