“Dreadful and Calamitous”
Well, first of all, welcome to the only website that is completely outspoken. I must recognize just one thing before start writing, I thought we were going to win. In other words, and more specifically, I thought that despite being such a bad team as we are, we could have defeated the team that’s dead last in the qualifier table, and thanks to us, they’ve achieved their second victory, and there are only 3 matches left to play before the qualifiers end.
South Africa at this very moment is further from us than the “Pegasus Constellation”, and unless a miracle occurs, we could say that of the last four World Cups, we’ve only been to one, and we only reached the first round. I think this is a way of summing up our “football situation” of the last sixteen years.
Analyzing the match against Peru
First of all, I didn’t agree with some of the players that have been capped. They are Castillo, Eguren and Malaka. I’ll share my reasons with you: Muslera is going through a better moment than Castillo (And besides he’s taller than Castillo, and fits with that position because of his height, 6-ft 3 in). I must recognize that I’m not a supporter of Eguren’s game, I can’t use a player that doesn’t move and that fails four of five passes he makes. Malaka maybe can convince you, but he doesn’t have the quality to be on the National Team, or at least for what I think that our team needs, and he never finishes with a goal; for example, he avoids five players, jumbles the pass, and then manages to get by four guys and ends up losing the ball, on the next play he’ll get past three defenders, will take a shot on goal only to miss it completely (and if its against a big team, he doesn’t even see the ball, his narrow vision of the field doesn’t help him either), so he doesn’t do enough positive things for the team, and plays only for himself, but he doesn’t contribute to the common team objective, which is to win. The only thing that Malaka excels at and which other players seem to lack is the ability to take headers, his vertical leap seems to suspend him in the air for a few seconds.
Now a brief analysis of the players of the match
Castillo: Not a bad goalkeeper and I don’t think he played awful either; he just wasn’t tested enough times to make a good analysis. It wasn’t Godín and Lugano’s day. Palito…did he play? Fucile: Almost acceptable, he is a player that has shown us some of his skills as left side defender with some attack skills, this time it didn’t work quite well for him. Our permanent player in that position is Cáceres, but he couldn’t play because yellow card accumulation. Eguren: Another match to forget, I still can’t understand how he’s playing on a top five team in Spain. Gargano: The only one that actually played football, he was the one that did fewer mistakes, and he was solid when marking other players from my point of view, he also was the only one able to do those aerial passes that never work for us (see Eguren). “Cebolla”: He is an acceptable player that didn’t have a good match. Malaka: He was one of the most important players, but as we all know, he is not able to play at a great level, and if we are forced to use him, we play terrible. Suárez: When he plays for Ajax he scores a goal for every color in the rainbow, I’m not saying he’s a genius, because the Dutch league is not so competitive, but… what a bad game he had against Peru. The only thing he could do correctly was a disallowed goal while being clearly offside, and finally Abreu; he’s proven that his legs are shot.
Once again the “Nacho-dependency factor” says “present”. The same thing is happening to Argentina, with the absence of Riquelme on the team.
Well, this is just my way of viewing things, it’s not the gospel truth, and I respect the reader’s opinion. My idea was not: To offend someone, to make you lose hope, to get this situation worse, to stick my finger in the wound, but to point out the reality we are honestly living with for so many years, in order to get out of this hole we are stuck in; but starting all over again, with players with a different attitude, and players able to carry “La Celeste” on their backs, because as a summary, that was what happened, the players called to the team are not so bad at all, but they weren’t able to face the circumstances. In other words, when the level of the players is not enough, Uruguay’s rich legacy will always play against us, turning a negative into a positive, “La Garra Charrúa” and all but this isn’t going to happen until we have several players on teams that are candidates to win the Champions League (there are two in Spain, four in the Premiership and three in Italy; their names are too obvious so I won’t name them here).
Guys, it’s time for us to understand that THE REST OF THE WORLD does not see us as we would like them to see us.
Translated by Jimmy
