2023-10-02 17:23:08
Betplay League
The successful coach of the 90s spoke to the League sensation strategist with América de Cali.
Francisco Maturana and Lucas González
Photo: EFE and @juanfotosadn
By:
Futbolred Editorial
October 02, 2023, 12:22 p.m. m.
The figure of Lucas González in Colombian soccer appeared for the first time last year, when Harold Rivera managed to introduce him as his assistant in Independiente Santa Fe. At that same moment he was offered to be a coach owned by Águilas Doradas, an offer that he readily accepted. immediately, and since then his career has skyrocketed, with the conflicts typical of someone starting out but with the admiration of locals and strangers in the Colombian environment.
Of course, they are still only two managed teams, but having América de Cali already as the protagonist of the Betplay II 2023 League, playing at the highest level, offering a spectacle and giving the image of a solid and strong team, is a certainty: the titles They may arrive very soon.
And yet, a voice of experience has decided to speak in his ear and calm the euphoria a little: Francisco Maturana asked him to calm down.
“Modesty. When I arrived in Europe, there in Sevilla, there was Carlos Bilardo and he had been my coach in the Colombian National Team. I arrived with a label, which they had given me, of being a Menotist. Soccer in America was divided between the menotisas and the bilardistas. I don’t know what I said, but the journalists told Bilardo that Pacho had said such a thing. Then he said: Pacho, don’t talk yet. That when I become a technician I will speak,” he said in a conversation with Caracol Radio.
Later, Maturana says, he met the Argentine and he gave him a lesson: “Things have turned out very well for you, but you are going to be a technician when they want to burn your car, when you can’t go out on the street, when you arrive. “Go home to cry, when you can’t sleep. That’s when you’re going to start being a technician.”
For the veteran coach, today an advisor to Atlético Nacional, he tells González clearly: “Things happen to you that undoubtedly shape you. I said, I come from a World Cup, I come from winning a Copa América and this “He tells me that I am not a technician yet. I think that is a good message, not to feel technical yet, there is always the possibility of being better every day.”
Lucas and his América are second in the Betplay League, virtually qualified for home runs and with luxury goals that have literally gone around the world. But Maturana is right: there is a lack of titles, experience, hard blows, beyond those he has suffered in an America that very recently considered firing him, and peace of mind to know that the path is just beginning. It is too early to let yourself be clouded by success.
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