2024-02-21 15:34:32
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In an interview with Sifup, Esteban Pavez revealed how he advises the youngest people in Colo Colo. In addition, he delivered a harsh criticism regarding the little investment that clubs make in the development of lower categories.
Updated on 02/21/2024 – 12:34 pm CLT
© JAVIER SALVO/PHOTOSPORTEsteban Pavez reveals how he advises the Colo Colo youth players.
Following the departure of Gabriel Suazo to France in December 2022, the person in charge of taking the captain’s position in Colo Colo was Esteban Pavez, another youth player of the club with a long career in the Cacique. In 2023 he already had his first year in charge of the team, where he won the Chile Cup, and is currently beginning his second season with the armband on his sleeve.
Huesi gave an in-depth interview with Sifup for one of the institutional magazines of the players union. He made a evaluation of his period as captain of Colo Colo and the responsibility that entails.
But he also took command and gave his opinion on the phenomenon that took over the dressing rooms, such as social networks. Photographs and stories on Instagram before and following games are common among players from both Colo Colo and the rest of Chilean soccer:
“It’s hard for me to upload photos, I don’t like it very much because people will think I’m ‘selling smoke’ and that’s not the truth. When I do it it’s because I really want to do it, because it comes from me.. I think social networks have done football a disservice. Beyond being in Colo Colo, which today is the brand that sells the most, the most important in the country, everyone talks regarding Colo Colo and social networks are very good for many things, but today they negatively affect especially the youngest ones,” he said.
<img alt="" aria-hidden="true" class="i-amphtml-intrinsic-sizer" role="presentation" src="data:image/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,”/> Esteban Pavez, captain of Colo Colo | Photo: Guille Salazar, DaleAlbo
He added that “everyone can upload what they want, they can upload 20 thousand photos. But they are things that I don’t share, because maybe I come from another era and now everyone is with their cell phone in their hand, because it works for everything. Now it’s more normal. But you must have rules at all times.”
Esteban Pavez’s advice to the young people of Colo Colo
At 33 years old, Esteban Pavez has a long history in Chilean soccer, even with calls to the Chilean national team. That is why, from his experience, he tries to advise young people to be better professionals in times of social networks:
“I always convey the same thing to them, that beyond winning, losing or drawing, the most important thing is the day to day of the week, killing yourself for a teammate. I think that is more fundamental, instead of winning over people through social networks. I tell them that in their private life they can do what they want, but the important thing is that they train and leave their hearts on the field,” said 8 Colocolino.
He gave an anecdote regarding being an “old-fashioned captain,” with rules in the dressing room that the group may or may not like: “I had to be in the old days. Football changed a lot. I remember a rally in Cobreloa when I was 16 and my cell phone rang at a dinner; Luis Fuentes and Rodrigo Pérez were there. I remember that they told me everything in front of everyone. I wanted to hide. But there I learned. I think there are things that helped me a lot to try to get into the dressing room in a good way, beyond that there are things that one cannot control.”
Criticism of the development of young football in Colo Colo and Chile
Few talents have exploded in Chilean football in recent years, which has been demonstrated by the fact that Since 2013, the Chilean National Team has not qualified for the Under 20 World Cup by points, and that in 2025 Chile will play because it is the host of the tournament.. For the same reason, Esteban Pavez delivered a harsh criticism regarding the development of the lower divisions of Chilean soccer and specifically Colo Colo:
“In Chile there is no investment in lower divisions, for example here in Colo Colo, which is the largest team in the country, it is missing many things. We go through the training ground of the lower divisions every day and they are always bad, the youth players change in a container, which cannot be. “If we want to get players for Colo Colo, for the Chilean team, I think the most important thing is to start investing in the base that is the quarry,” he concluded.
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