How should Reinaldo Rueda say goodbye to the Qatar 2022 World Cup Qualifiers? The coach of the Colombian National Team has a very difficult time qualifying the coffee team for the FIFA World Cup, but he will have to face Bolivia and Venezuela on March 24 and 29, to finish the calendar and hope for a miracle.
The Colombian coach must be in a dilemma: Bet on a miraculous World Cup qualification with the experienced players you have called in your cycle? Or call on young promises to leave a legacy of renewal and indicate a path towards the 2026 World Cup?
The first option, for what he has been doing since his first call in 2021, is to call the stars of the National Team: James Rodríguez, Falcao García, Juan Guillermo Cuadrado and the entire Tricolor base, which has a negative streak of 7 games without winning and without scoring a goal in the South American qualifiers.
Is it worth calling the symbols of the Selectionand Falcao, for example, has practically resigned himself to not playing his second World Cup? Is it good to insist on the same players who have had a complicated Qualifier and with worrying figures?
However, Rueda would have a second possible decision in his call: leave a new generation of playersbut calling them and giving them their first minutes of official competition.
And it is that Reinaldo has tried to open space for some players in the National Team, such as Yaser Asprilla, Andrés Felipe Román, Andrés Llinás, Andrés Colorado or Harold Preciado; though he has barely lined them up in the friendly match against Honduras at the beginning of the yearbut he has not put them in the Qualifiers, because the taste prevails -and the need- for the experienced ones, since he received Colombia outside the group of classifieds, and although for several dates he had the team in the privileged positions, he came out again and is very close to elimination.
Will Rueda be able to summon freely, adjusted to his philosophy and his desire? Reinaldo is a man specialized in looking for new talents and promoting them, which is why he continues to have the best performance of a Colombia U-20 National Team in a World Cup: third in 2003.
Even in Chile, where he left due to poor results in this same Qualifying Round, left a list of footballers who would help for the future of the australes: the most prominent is Ben BreretonEnglish with a Chilean mother who was found by the Colombian coach, and who is currently the hope of scoring at 22 years old.
What should Rueda do in his last call in the Qatar 2022 Qualifiers?
What should Reinaldo Rueda do in his last call in the Qatar 2022 Qualifiers?
