09/10/2024 18:03hs. Updated on 10/09/2024 6:05 p.m.
Shuffle and give again. That is the main premise in Uruguay. Luis Suárez’s sayings still resonate on the walls of the Celeste Complex, where the Uruguayan team remains concentrated before leaving for Lima this Thursday. After the words of the Pistolero, who assured that the relationship between the team and Marcelo Bielsa was far from being the best due to repeated lack of respect and mistreatment, the Uruguayan team regrouped in Montevideo in view of the crossing against Peru. Looking ahead to the duel with the Peruvian national team, which will be the game that will mark as much as Suárez’s statements have affected, Marcelo Bielsa has already had his first training sessions.
Hand-to-hand talks, meetings and away from the external climate
It is difficult to get out of the breeding ground generated by the words of Luis Suárez, who assured that the Argentine coach had ways that the national team did not like. Of course, after the Pistolero’s statement, questions arose towards the players who are part of Bielsa’s squad, since Luis Suárez decided to hang up his boots with his team after the last Qualifiers date. When faced with the journalists’ questions, which were practically impossible to avoid, the leaders stood up and responded with certainty. “What Luis said is all true,” said Valverde, while José María Giménez distanced himself from the scorer: “Always supporting and being with the coach 100%. What Luis said was not consensual.”
Photos of Uruguay’s training. (AUF Press)
With the squad already ready in Montevideo to face Peru, Marcelo Bielsa’s coaching staff and his players met again in the midst of an extremely hostile atmosphere. According to Uruguayan media, Before the start of the first training session, members of the leadership met with Nicolás De la Cruz, José María Giménez, Federico Valverde, Sebastián Rochet and Nahitan Nandéz, representatives of the team. In turn, Jorge Giordano, Secretary of the Uruguayan National Teams and Bielsa’s right-hand man, was also part of the talk.
Later, the players and the coaching staff grouped together to have their first training session, where you could see an intimate talk between Marcelo Bielsa and José María Giménez, one of the few who supported the coach 100%. Of course, what was palpable in the first training session was a climate very different from what is experienced outside, something that suggests that what the players say is a reality from beginning to end. What Suárez said is a reality as true as the fact that the squad is shoulder to shoulder with the coaching staff.
What does Bielsa plan to face Peru?
As for football, a topic that has practically not been touched on these days, but that also gives signs of what could have happened in the Copa América, an event that was lethal for the relationship. For the date that will begin this Thursday, The coach called up seven footballers who have never worn the jersey of the senior team, a sign of renewal and change of atmosphere.
To face Peru, Bielsa plans a possible line of three in which Manuel Ugarte breaks away from the midfield to form part of the defense. At the same time, despite the little participation he is having in Liverpool, The coach trusts Darwin Núñez, who will share the attack with Facundo Pellistri or Cristian Olivera.
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