Colombia polishes details for the Copa América and exposes its undefeated record
The Tricolor will face its penultimate match before the debut in the Copa América, which will be on June 24 against Paraguay. They will test their strength against the United States in a friendly at the FedExField stadium in Washington, where the 28 players mentioned will provide answers to the national coach, Néstor Lorenzo, to define the final list for the continental competition.
The national team comes to this preparation commitment undefeated in 21 games, 18 of them under the leadership of the Argentine technical director. Furthermore, the last time they faced the North American team in a friendly match was in January 2023, when with a roster made up of players from the FPC and the MLS, such as Álvaro Montero, Andrés Llinás, ‘Cucho’ Hernández and ‘Chicho’ Arango. On that occasion they tied 0-0 in Carson.
Now the payroll will be very different. The coaching staff will have figures at their disposal, so their eyes will be on men like Luis Díaz, James Rodríguez, Daniel Muñoz, Jefferson Lerma and Jhon Arias, among others, as well as on new players such as scorer Miguel Ángel Borja, that is intractable with River Plate. and Sebastián Gómez, a Coritiba player with a past at Atlético Nacional.
In the last preparation matches, the Colombian National Team achieved great performances with their victories against Spain (1-0 and Romania (3-2), with Díaz, James, J. Arias and Muñoz as protagonists.
“The players are doing very well, it has been exciting to see them compete intensely. To see how they have taken advantage of these two weeks of work. Everything is very decided, but so far the players do not know which ones they are going to start. At the end of the training everything will be very clear “The team that Néstor chooses is going to compete very well,” declared Amaranto Perea, Lorenzo’s technical assistant.
After the warm-up against the American team, the Tricolor will have one last test against Bolivia, when they meet next Saturday, June 15 at the Pratt & Whitney Stadium (East Hartford, Connecticut), nine days before the premiere in the Copa América, a competition in which was placed in Group D along with Paraguay, Brazil and Costa Rica.
