In Central circleunder the watchful eye of Carlos Caszely, their star guest, the panel put together Gareca’s eleventh according to their preferences when an unexpected fail distorted the already classic exercise.
It happened when Mauricio Israel, its driver, proposed a modification in the midfield, in order to include Darío Osorio among the starters, without having to do without Víctor Dávila or Diego Valdés, the most notable of La Roja in the last clash against Paraguay. “I am betting on an even more offensive scheme”he argued, after removing Marcelino Núñez from the team.
The problem, Israel did not realize, is that his team featured Erick Pulgar, Rodrigo Echeverría and Diego Valdés, and then left Osorio, Dávila, Alexis Sánchez and Eduardo Vargas in strictly offensive duties. Seven players, who added to the four on the last line and Claudio Bravo, gave a total of twelve.
Marco Sotomayor noticed it shortly after walking. “Wait, there are twelve players”he warned Israel, unleashing laughter from Pato Yáñez and Caszely.
El “Chino”, in fact, took advantage of the instance to troll the journalist: “Imagine what Mauricio, who has twelve, knows about football, well”. “They say there is a new regulation that you can play with twelve,” Pato quickly agreed.
“No, it’s just that I took out Marcelino,” Israel defended himself, although his team still considered twelve players…
