2023-06-06 07:12:58
05/06/2023
While great stars of the world like Lionel Messi, Karim Benzema, Eden Hazard y Marco Asensio announce change of team, several members of the last “golden generation” of Colombian soccer that led the country to two consecutive World Cups (Brazil-2014 and Russia-2018) they run out of clubs after the end of the European season.
The reasons are several: low performance, termination of contracts or age. Some of them have already said goodbye to their clubs and others are about to leave.
Within this list are representative names such as James Rodríguez, who terminated his relationship with Olympiakos and has been a free agent for several months; Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, who after eight years with the Juventus, its continuity is in suspense; and the other one that will take different directions is Falcao garcia37 years old, from Vallecano Raywhich is shaping up to play in the Johor Darul Takzim of Malaysian football or the Blue Cross of Mexico.
“El Tigre” would put an end to 17 seasons in the Old Continent, in which he also went through Porto, Atlético de Madrid, Monaco y Galatasaray. Despite the little continuity in his current club, he still has a market in several countries around the world.
A separate case is Jefferson Lerma, the midfielder from Valle del Cauca who had been with Bournemouth for five seasons and was one of the most outstanding players on the squad.
Neill Blakeexecutive president of the British team, expressed his affection in said farewell: “Jefferson has made an outstanding contribution to the club in the last five years, but during the contract negotiations he made it clear to us that he is looking for a new challenge.”
During this cycle he was the footballer who added the most performances in the Bournemouth, con 37 appearances.
“He scored five goals in the Premier Leagueincluding a brace in our memorable win over Leeds United in April,” he says in the farewell statement from the club. Bournemouth exalting his work in the institution.
In total, the midfielder of 28 years old, he played 183 games and scored 12 goals, numbers that allowed him to leave the red and black squad through the front door: “Jefferson has been a key part of our success. While we are naturally disappointed not to see him in an AFC Bournemouth shirt again next season, we thank him for his unwavering commitment and wish him all the best,” Blake expressed.
Your destiny
The also footballer of the Colombian National Team, emerged in the quarry of the Atletico Huila and that before his time in England football and he spent three periods at Levante in Spain, he would have a verbal agreement with the Crystal Palace.
This cast is directed by the British Roy Hodgson and in the recently finished Premier campaign he was ranked eleventh with 45 points.
The same fate has the winger from Antioquia Juan Guillermo Cuadrado, who after seven periods with Juventus, would leave the team due to financial problems due to the sanction imposed by the Italian Football Federation for irregularities in the values of previous transfers.
Cuadrado this year ended as one of the usual footballers in the Old ladydespite the fact that at first he did not have continuity due to various injuries, but it would be the end of a successful cycle in the career of “El Panita”.
¿Why so many exits?
For Miguel Cadavid, former Envigado coach and international soccer analyst, this is due to three aspects. He says that the first is age, “because the players are already reaching a time when the years hit and in Europe they play at a strong pace.” He adds that another of the items that influences the exits of the coffee growers are the multiple injuries: “Falcao, James and Yerry have not had continuity due to the physical discomfort they have suffered.
However, he rescues that several of them finished their seasons better. “In the case of Mina, he was the hero in Everton’s last two games and saved them from relegation, and Muriel scored a great goal in one of the recent games with Atalanta. Both are young and still have a lot to give.”
And finally, the completion of cycles: “In the case of Cuadrado, he has already reached a point where his time at the club is over, but in my opinion I would give him one or two more seasons to be at Juve, since He still has no one to compete for the position” specified the strategist Cadavid.
The expert was also emphatic in saying that it will take many years to see so many national players in the main European leagues again. “The boys of the Sub-20 They’re good, but it’s going to take a while to make that transition.”
The truth is that the season that ended was not productive for the Colombians.
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