There are only four days left until the peruvian team faces his first friendly before the Copa America 2024, against Paraguay at the Monumental stadium, and then against El Salvador in the United States. These matches will serve to ‘bicolor’ prepare to face the Conmebol competition. However, a player whose name has been controversial in recent days is Christian Cuevawho was included as a guest by Jorge Fossati for these matches. In that sense, Oscar Del Portal He warned of the main problem of the Uruguayan coach due to this decision.
“That Cueva is invited as a guest seems to me to be a good idea from Fossati. Because he wants to have it close, he wants to prepare it, and that can help a team get it as soon as possible. I think it is Christian’s goal and also Fossati’s,” were his first words on the ‘Football in America’ program.
In the same way, the journalist, after showing his position in favor of incorporating him into the payroll of the ‘red and white’ For these friendly matches, he acknowledged that the coach did not do well by saying so publicly.
“I think that Fossati, even though he has the option or the hope that Cueva may already be recovered to use him in the Copa América, I think it was better not to say so. No matter how much I consider it and think about it, It is a message that can be received in a bad way by the universe of footballers who are not called up.. She came forward and was quick to say it,” she noted.
Also, the ‘Flat’ emphasized that the fact that ‘Aladdin’ If he is in the process of recovering from his right knee injury and has not had minutes on the playing field, this could cause discomfort on the part of other footballers in his position.
“Today, when he hasn’t played, when he’s recovering from an injury, the player who hasn’t been taken into consideration will say ‘I’m trying hard, I’m ready to be called up and Fossati doesn’t take me into account.’ I think that this message, today, can impact negatively on the rest“, held.
On the other hand, Oscar Del Portal He highlighted that the situation in Videna could change if Christian Cueva manages to stand out in one of the upcoming friendlies of the peruvian team.
“If Cueva is called as a guest and, in that case, he also goes as a sparring partner. But in a friendly match against El Salvador, he puts it in for a while and breaks it, no one and no footballer who has not been called up is going to say ‘they just called him up’. On the contrary, I would ask for it to be there,” she said.
And it is that Jorge Fossati I had been talking for a few days about Christian Cueva. At first, he admitted that his intention was to help him regain his physical form, but then he slipped the possibility of taking him to the hospital. Copa America 2024. “Along the way we will see if what was crazy a month ago becomes not so crazy and we have it ready for the Copa América,” he declared to the press.
Following the statements of Jorge Fossati of support on Christian Cuevathe same midfielder has expressed his gratitude for the opportunity to return to the peruvian team. He is aware that a chance like this is difficult to present to him and he does not plan to waste it, valuing the strategist’s gesture. ‘charrúa’.
“Being in the national team leaves me calmer, and if one is truly valued in the way the ‘profess’ is doing, it will have its reward and I am sure of that,” he said to the media in La Videna.
