The former América engineer pointed out that Colombian players didn’t have a good attitude over the past semester
MEXICO – Miguel Herrera recognized the low performance of Colombians Roger Martinez and Andres Ibargüen It was due to his bad attitude, although he is now one America He repeated that he had spoken to them on several occasions.
“They were at the club, I couldn’t put them aside, say, ‘I don’t like these guys anymore’ because they were inside my team project. If one day I thought of not using them because there are people who are more determined, but with all the injuries that I had, with all the circumstances that I had, well you have to use the people that you club, ” he said. Herrera in an interview with ESPN.
“I was constantly talking to them, I have a very good chemistry with them (Andrés) Ibargüen, maybe not so much with Roger (Martinez)But there was communication, which naturally demanded what I want from the players in the sports section; They are professional footballers and they have a contract and they have to be there when called up. His professional contract does not say ‘player of the America club, undisputed headline ‘, because then you will get into trouble. Your contract states that you are a player of the America club in a contract in which it obviously requires that you give yourself the maximum when you are needed and that they are part of two players who did not give what the club expected of them at certain times ”.
Both Colombian players received harsh criticism from the Azulcrema fans, who realized their bad attitude on the field.
“Ibargüen played great matches, Roger had started very well after a series of circumstances of ‘I’m leaving, I’m not leaving’, a series of circumstances that did not suit us at all, the ‘you are leaving, you are not leaving, there it is. offer, I’ll analyze it, let me see, then you don’t have to use it because if you get injured we have an important offer. ” They were dimes and diretes of a negotiation and in the end they are part of the institution and I had to use them, unfortunately they did not deliver the best quality expected for the institution ”.
– Did you feel that his low level was due to his attitude?
“Of course their attitude was not the best. You can have bad games but not do things right. I cannot claim Henry (Martin) that he doesn’t get a goal under the arch because Henry kills himself, Henry goes and fights with all the balls, Henry is always ready, generating goals and generating conditions and if he had to fail in one of those cases, then he had to fail “.
‘I couldn’t make a claim Guido (Rodriguez) the penalty that missed in the Final (2019 against Rayados), because Guido was the most decisive player on the field of the club, the player who scored the most, the one who was seen the most, the one who ran and hit him the most, if he made a foul because he had a foul, that’s football, unfortunately I can’t classify a player for a foul. Everyone is talking about Jorge Sánchez’s mistake (in the final against Rayados) but I cannot claim it because the man also commits suicide, he is a man with great qualities, I am sure he will be a player who will soon be on that level will continue We are going to see him in Europe and he made a mistake in a final, but these are circumstances that do not qualify a player ”.
“But yes if they don’t have an attitude of course I say it and in these two (Martínez and Ibargüen)At this stage there was not a good attitude in either, at this stage, in this tournament with very delicate things due to this pandemic, so we had to be much more focused and these two players unfortunately did not have the supply that was required of them. I demanded them, the directive demanded them, but that doesn’t mean that we were fought, ”concluded the“ Luis ”.