Atlético Nacional played its last game of the first half of 2024, the Verdolaga team had a period to be forgotten, was eliminated early and surprisingly in the two tournaments in which it competed and was involved in a sporting and managerial crisis.
For the first time in many years, the team’s fans were not in communion with anything that Atlético Nacional did, their absence at the Atanasio Girardot was notable, as well as their acts of protest against the poor results of the Antioquian squad.
Nacional started by winning against Alianza in its debut in the Colombian League 2024-I and everything was illusion in the team led by John Bodmer, but then the reality would be different. Only on the second day did they have to face an eleventh team of the same category and they found themselves much inferior against an América de Cali team that knew how to beat them.
Irregularity and bad results took over Nacional’s performance, everything got worse for the Verdolagas when they lost to Millonarios at the Atanasio. After the loss in the classic against Albiazul, they added five more defeats and a total of nine days without victories.
In that period of meetings The crisis became unsustainable in the green after being eliminated from the CONMEBOL Libertadores just in the qualifying phase and against Nacional of Paraguay, losing both in Asunción and Medellín.
The poor results led to Bodmer’s departure as the team’s coach and the leadership was replaced by the Uruguayan Pablo Repetto. The team took a breather and after some dates achieved victories against rivals such as Pasto, Jaguares and Envigado, some began to get excited, but after this Another bad streak of four games without victories came that certified their elimination.
In the midst of the sporting crisis and when the season was barely halfway over, It is worth remembering the resignation of a reference like Dorlan Pabónwho left the team after a hot intern.
Before the end of the semester Atlético Nacional announced that it was changing its president and From May 1st, Sebastián Arango will take office, replacing Mauricio Navarro.
The reinforcements for this season were certainly not up to par.men like Santiago Rojas, Pablo Ceppelini, Joan Castro, Bernardo Espinosa, Carlos Sierra, Daniel Mantilla, Edwin Torres and Agustín Álvarez Wallace joined the team, however, none of them managed to exceed expectations.
Atlético Nacional in the Colombian League ended up defeating Deportes Tolima on matchday 19 and He barely managed to add 24 points that confirmed his elimination. In total counting the Libertadores matches won 6 games, drew 6 and lost 9.
