While National Athletic He begins to recover his good football and consolidates himself among the first eight teams (it is fifth) that will play the semifinal home runs of the current Betplay League, the expectation grows regarding the continuity of Pedro Sarmiento, appointed interim coach following the dismissal of Hernán Darío “El Arriero” Herrera.
This Monday night, in a “spicy intersection” as described by Espn Fútbol Colombia, the panelist of that media outlet, Oscar Cordoba, touched on the subject with the new president of the purslane club, Mauricio Navarro de Bedout, who at the same time responded to the exporter of the Colombian National Team.
“Tell him: ‘Peter (Sarmiento)you are and we are going to bring the players you need to play a Copa Libertadores,’” Córdoba began.
“But now they don’t know. Is that in one or two months Pedro can leave if he doesn’t come out champion. Then you are going to give the responsibility to a new coach, with a hiring commission that is going to go out and look for players. Well, within my structure as a team there is no such possibility”, added the exporter who was champion of the Libertadores with Boca Juniors.
Navarro Bedout did not like Córdoba’s opinion and immediately replied: “I respect Óscar a lot, but to say that we don’t know… it’s not true, suddenly we do know”.
While Córdoba replied: “Suddenly you are very clear regarding it, but you have not communicated it to the rest of the people”.
Then, the leader told him that “they will communicate it at the right time”, and that they are not running because they are currently getting good results, from the beginning, hand in hand with Sarmiento and Carlos “Pisces” Restrepo, who in his technical assistant. “
But Córdoba went further. “They are asking me where I see Nacional right now, and I see a team that doesn’t know where it is going.”
And he made a comparison in reference to the Libertadores Cup.
“It’s as if we were going to play a World Cup and we didn’t know who the coach was going to be… It’s that a Libertadores is going to be played, in which we came out badly in the last three editions. Nacional is the most representative team in Colombian soccer, so it has to have a clear structure of how it is going to play and which players it is going to bring to play in the Cup, but it does not even know who the coach is, or at least that is what that they are selling to all of us”.
“I remind you that three months ago they saw us the same,” Navarro said, referring to the League title that Verde won last semester. “Precisely for this reason, changes are being considered,” he concluded.