This Friday there was a heated exchange of opinions between two of the panelists of F90the program of ESPN. Oscar Ruggeri y Carlos Fernando Navarro Montoya staged a tense crossover that led the former captain of the Argentine team to point out to his partner that his gaze on football prevented him from playing the 1986 World Cup.
The debate began around the consequences that defeats bring to soccer teams and there was exposed the counterpoint between the opinions of the former defender, who assured that only winning mattered, and the former goalkeeper, who explained why the way in which that results are obtained is essential. “I don’t care what they say, you have to win!”he exclaimed pigheaded before looking at the ceiling and invoking the coach who marked him the most in his career: “Bilardo, I love you more and more, thanks for teaching us”.
Given this, Navarro Montoya insisted that winning is the goal of any coach and player: There is how, which is what we want to discuss, and the consequences on such great teams that they are enormous”. And he added: “There are issues that discussing them in football is delaying, we don’t need to continue discussing this”.
It was at that moment that Ruggeri got angry: “You missed out on going to the national team with us because of that, because it doesn’t matter if you win or not.” And he sentenced “If you said, ‘you have to win’, inside”, in reference to the mentality that Bilardo’s Argentina dressing room had. Emboldened by the discussion, the former Boca and River player played an imaginary violin: “They’re like this all day, ‘You have to go to Colón, because if you’re not fourth class.’ We have to win, monster”.
The truth is that the Mono was not summoned for the Albiceleste because he had stopped in the 1986 World Cup Qualifiers for the Colombian team. It was thus that Bilardo leaned towards Nery Pumpido, Luis Islas and Hector Miguel Zelada for that contest. Nor might he call him for the 1990 one, when he already shone as a goalkeeper for Boca Juniors, and they traveled to Italy Sergio Goycoechea, Ángel David Comizzo and Fabián Cancelarich.
In addition, the former soccer players crossed paths because the pigheaded He insisted with his position that “the one who wins is the best”, while his partner pointed out that it was not always like that and that, for example, Holland in 1974 had not obtained the title, but in his opinion it had been the best in the contest. “With his form, Germany surpassed him”, Ruggeri sentenced him in reference to the final of that tournament.
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