The ego, the eternal fall for the talented. In it they are now, in fact several months ago, James Rodríguez and Freddy Rincón.
The Colombian national team’s numbers sparked controversy a few months ago when James said in an interview with influencer Daniel Habib that he was the best Colombian player in history. Rincón already answered him then and now the debate has started again after a new interview with the historical extreme.
“Here in Colombia a James controversy started with me and one of those things formed, but I’m very clear in my views and, as the Brazilians say, ‘I didn’t stay on top of the wall’ to say things. I James He is a very good player, but he needs more sacrifice and a range of things to call him ‘crack’. It’s situations where everyone has their own concept, but mine is just that, ” said Rincón in an interview with the Peruvian media Pulso Sports.
When I referred to that interview with Habbif, the historical interview was devastating: “I have nothing to talk to because firstly I don’t know him and I’m not a friend of his. He has his ideas in a sense … Because he called an influencer to do an interview, which seems like something ‘without feet or head’ to me, but yeah, everyone makes their life what they want. And they asked him who was the best in Colombia and he said that he it was. So much for everyone’s ego, I respect him and I have nothing to say about it, everyone knows what he did and if he thinks he’s the best Colombian player of all time, it’s respected ”.
And he went on, “later on, that was what made me think it was an interview meant to get me down and not a simple interview, this person comes and says – and Freddy Rincón? – And he says – no, Freddy Rincón is that among all of us. ”The concept was a bit tough, so they asked me and I said,“ No, leave James, he doesn’t know where he is. ”That was what I said, I didn’t say anything else. That’s where the controversy formed because since James has become untouchable here, no one can talk about James because everyone is ‘at the top’. But since I’m not everyone, my concept is very clear, ”he explained.
But is Rincón or James better? “There comes the case of the person, what is believed and the ego, a set of things that everyone treats the way they want. I will never say that I am the best in the history of Colombian football, because there were very good players, for we are not the ones to say whether we were the best or not.
You are the influencers and the journalists who can have your concept and create the controversy and not us because we are the people who are taking the field to do our job in the best possible way. And we’ll leave it to you to judge the rest, ”he said.