2023-07-14 10:40:00
The Colo-Colo coach confessed that after the duel with O’Higgins in 2020 for the National Championship, Gabriel Suazo’s reaction to the situation the team was experiencing left him very sad.
The 2020 season was by all accounts the toughest of Colo-Colo. The team was submerged in problems and everything led to the fact that he came to play the Promotion match against the University of Conception in Talca, who fortunately won 1-0 with a score by Pablo Solari and maintained the category.
In the second wheel came the change. Gustavo Quinteros He arrived as a new coach in October and focused on being able to save Colo-Colo to drop division for the first time in its history. More than two years after this event, the coach recalled how the decision to take on the challenge of reaching the Monumental Stadium was made.
“It was an immense risk, very big for my prestige. He had been champion in many places, so he had never taken a team in that situation, but the desire I had was greater than I said, I’m going and I took a risk. she turned out well“, he stated in conversation with the Media Punta program, which is made up of Daniel Arrieta and Verónica Bianchi.
In addition, the DT revealed the hard moment who lived in the dressing room after the tie with O’Higgins de Rancagua on the final date, instance in which in discounts the “Capo de Provincia” tied the game and sentenced Colo-Colo to dispute the match for salvation with the “Campanil”.
The crying of Gabriel Suazo that Gustavo Quinteros witnessed
“After the game with O’Higgins I saw a horrible situation in the locker room with gabriel suazo and other players. With tears, anguish and pain. We took the bus back to the stadium and there I said that I had to do something. That’s why I went up to the top of the bus and talked with the team. It was a very important talk because it went very well. I saw that the players recovered, they were fine and they were going to play with everything they had”, he stated.
“We entered to play a final and I think that the attitude of the footballers was superior to that of the rival. In the preview I told him a lot of things that I had not prepared and they only came from my heart”, added the 58-year-old strategist.
Finally, Gustavo Quinteros confirmed that he does not regret coming to Los Albos, because all the work he did paid off. “There are still people who stop me on the street and thank me for coming at such a complex time, with the club in trouble and in the middle of the pandemic. Back then there were a lot of drawbacks, with the players unemployed and a bad relationship between them and the leaders, then I began to try to solve things to start winning and have a positive dressing room. We held barbecues, meetings and everyone began to do their part to reach the goal that was salvation ”, he closed.
Gustavo Quinteros celebrates his third year in command of Colo-Colo and once the campaign is over, you must resolve your future. He ends his contract in December 2023 and must sit down to talk with the Black and White board.
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