The America Cup is approaching and on Channel 13 they will premiere this Sunday the Golden Generation program. There, the first guest will be Gonzalo Jara, mainstay in obtaining the two continental trophies, who will tell details of those glorious years of the National Team.
One of the most striking moments will be when he talks about internal relationships. “There are fights, not combos, rather strong discussions between us. And there are many people who tell us: ‘You are friends with Alexis, Isla or anyone,’ and I tell them: ‘We are not friends.’ They answer me ‘but how are they not friends?’. And the truth is that not all of us are. Although we have lived together for many years and we all know each other very well, there are players with whom one shares more, it is like in any job. “It’s not that the 23 players were friends, not at all,” he counted.
Then, he addressed a remembered discussion that he had with Alexis Sánchez in the middle of a match with Panama in the Centenario Cup. “What he told me doesn’t matter, the context was because he didn’t get the ball. Alexis always went down to get the ball and we didn’t touch it to him, I didn’t give it to him and he got angry. But he knew that he didn’t have to go down because he was important for us 10 meters outside the area creating and generating things,” he argued.
Finally, about his remembered finger to Cavani, The former defender was clear. “Who didn’t make one of those who played soccer? Who hasn’t stepped on a partner? It was something that later turns out as it turned out, and it is unfortunate, but I don’t regret it at all. If the consequence of this was that Uruguay played with 10 and were champions of America, I have no regrets.”
