Carlos Antonio Vélez is the protagonist of Atlético Bucaramanga’s title. Wasn’t he one of his harshest critics? For that very reason…
Hundreds of fans remembered the analyst in the celebration of the team’s first star in its 75-year history, a joy that motivated crazy celebrations until the early hours of the morning, after the victory against Santa Fe in the final, in El Campín, in an intense penalty shootout.
Many considered that the journalist lacked the height to recognize the superiority of a team led by Rafael Dudamel, with whom Vélez has had deep differences for some time.
What did the analyst say?
The first problem for the fans is that he did not say anything: in the broadcast of the final on Win Sports, at the end of the game, when the analysts’ comments are usually heard, the one who took the lead after the end of Eduardo Luis’s story López was Juan José Peláez, who recognized the virtues of the leopard team but never gave the word to Vélez. The broadcast and he didn’t say anything.
However, later on his social networks he said: “In the midst of the torrential rain that made the field impossible for the game and rather inviting, in the absence of football, the handsome ones, the “metelóns” and the epic Bucaramanga won the title by way of kicks from the penalty spot”.
And he continued: “He won the game but he managed the 3-1 aggregate score poorly, taking out those who did the damage like Córdoba and Sambueza. Hinestroza was injured, giving wings to a Santa Fe team that in the final was not the team with the home runs, nor of all against all, to the point that in 6 minutes the cake turned. Then it was said to pray and between Quintana and the stick they saved the hand Santa Fe is the Leader of the reclassification and Bucaramanga for.
First time Champion. Congratulations!!!”, he wrote on his social networks.
Virtues? Praise? Not a single adjective beyond congratulations. On the other hand, it is a recognition of the good year of Independiente Santa Fe.
From silence to criticism
Later, Vélez added another comment on his
“Bucaramanga is an emotional, physical team, with well-motivated stature and that is its essence, its strength. Mosquera is powerful, the ideas come from Sambueza and Córdoba is mischievous. Handsome in defense and with a good biotype. Their football strength is in prioritizing defense of his goal to keep it at zero. He must strengthen himself for the Cup and work more tactically. Living off of motivation is sometimes enough for some things but not for everything,” he said.
Obviously the attacks on Dudamel are clear when he refers to motivation and criticizes the lack of tactical work. The annoyance for many is not that he did not like the final, that he usually does not like many team presentations on the field, but that his personal feelings prevented him from clearer recognition of the current Colombian champion.
