There are just a few days left until the debut of the Colombian National Team in the 2024 Copa América and the objective is to seek a second crown, after the one obtained in the edition in which it was local, in 2001. However, for the betting houses, the team Néstor Lorenzo is not the top favorite.
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Colombia appears in the fourth line on the list of candidates to win the Cup. The first is the current champion of America and the world, Argentina, with 35.7 percent. Brazil follows, with 30.3 percent, and the third is Uruguay, with 8.3 percent. The Colombians’ percentage rose with the last friendlies and now surpasses the United States: 8.3 to 7.7.
The phrase of Gustavo Alfaro, coach of Costa Rica: ‘Today Colombia may be above Brazil’
However, some of Colombia’s rivals are already beginning to put pressure on him thinking about what is coming. One of them, the Costa Rica coach, the Argentine Gustavo Alfaro, who knows the medium very well, having been a commentator on Gol Caracol.
Gustavo Alfaro
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“We are trying to start acquiring things that we know are necessary and essential for what we are going to face, “Not only to Brazil, but also to Colombia, which is at a very equal level, and today Colombia is perhaps above Brazil in that regard,” declared Alfaro, in an interview with Deportes Repretel.
Daniel Garnero, coach of Paraguay, also recognizes the level of Colombia
More cautious, but also recognizing that Colombia has an advantage over them, was also Argentine Daniel Garnero, coach of Colombia’s first rival in the Cup, Paraguay.
La Albirroja did not have very good results at the end of their preparation: they tied with Peru in Lima (0-0), lost by a landslide against Chile in Santiago (3-0) and on Monday they played their last friendly before the tournament, against Panama , as a visitor (0-1).
“We leave with the feeling that we are improving, that we are growing and we are going to be prepared to face the tournament, where we had a very difficult area. “We are prepared to face much more complex commitments such as, for example, the first two that we are going to have in the Copa América (Colombia and Brazil)”, Garnero explained.
Daniel Garnero
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MisterChip took a gamble: ‘Colombia is the fittest team in the world’
Also the Spanish statistician Alexis Martín Tamayo, @2010MisterChip, gives Colombia a very good chance of winning the tournament, although not as the main favorite. And he gave his arguments.
“I give Colombia a 12 percent chance of renewing the laurels of 2001,” he said. “By results, it is the team that is in the most shape in the world. They have not lost for more than two years, and be careful, in these two years they have faced several of the best teams in the world. “He is in fantastic form, he has found a balance with Néstor Lorenzo and he comes with players, some established and some who are beginning to emerge in Europe,” he explained.
Néstor Lorenzo, prudent, has given favoritism to other teams. But some are already putting pressure on him.
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