In his statements, every time he refers to or plays against Junior, to Alexis Garcia It is clear that he has not been able to overcome the resounding failure he had as coach of the shark team in the first half of 2013. It has undoubtedly been his most bitter moment as a coach.
From his vintage is the phrase that Junior was the “Colombian PSG” which he used in 2022 to ironically refer to the ability to recruit players from the Barranquilla team.
‘Teacher‘He also said on one occasion that the worst thing he committed in his career as a coach was accepting Junior’s offer when he was very comfortable in La Equidad.
To Junior, replacing José ‘Cheche’ Hernandez, Alexis García arrived with many expectations. He came from doing great campaigns in La Equidad, but his verbosity caused him many problems in Barranquilla.
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He had only been in the city for a few days when he poured out his praise for Fuad Char after he stated that, if it were up to him, he would give her a contract for six years. Alexis’ response was that the only thing Fuad needed as a politician was “be president of Colombia.”
Alexis also announced that a player would arrive at Junior ‘boom’, which never appeared at the Adelita de Char sports headquarters and another of his famous phrases was “This Junior is going to play deliciously,” which was only seen in the first game against Envigado (4-0 victory), in which the coach kissed the shield and ended up happy with the performance of his players.
After a series of bad results, Alexis’ speech changed and he said that now Junior was going to play the way he liked. But the team never got going even after the entire group of players went to the press conference to express their support after a 2-0 loss at home to the Cúcuta Deportivo.
He also blamed the journalists who covered the training sessions for providing all the information to his rivals through their publications on Twitter.
But Alexis García’s worst false start as Junior coach was when he stated that any “sobradito” The Barranquilla team would like Nacional, which caused a lot of annoyance among the fans.
In that transfer market he came on loan from Nacional, Edwin Cardona and three more players with a purslane past: Samuel Vanegas, Diego Álvarez and Jonathan Álvarez. None of them performed well. They had also arrived Edinson Toloza and the Panamanian Gabriel Gomez.
On the team he found Dayro Moreno, Luis Narváez, Sebastián Viera, Vladimir Hernández, Luis Carlos Ruiz and Iván Vélez, among others.
Alexis is clearly annoyed every time he loses against Junior, a team with which he has lost in two of the four League finals he has played: one with La Equidad (2010) and another with Pasto (2019). He never accepts that the red and white team was superior and always uses the argument that the referees are harming him.
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In the final that he lost as coach of Pasto, he complained that the Dimayor I would have taken the return match from Ipiales, whose stadium did not meet the conditions, to take it to Bogotá. At that time he said that it was a clear intention to favor Junior, who was going to feel local in that square.
Alexis García signed a two-year contract with Junior, but it only lasted six months. He left the team eliminated, in 12th place with 22 points, a product of 6 wins, 4 draws and 8 losses.
In the Colombia Cup they played 10 games, of which they only won 4 and tied 6.
After passing through the Shark team he was in Fortress, Santa Fe, Pasto and since 2020 he has completed his second cycle at the head of Equity.
This Friday (7:30 pm), La Equidad will visit Junior at the Metropolitano Meléndez stadium. The insurance team, which is sixth with 23 points, has just suffered two consecutive defeats against Bucaramanga (0-4) and Medellín (1-2).
