THE ANGELS — Victor Manuel Vucetich He continues to speak of a lack of attitude among the Chivas players, but the coach refuses to use words like “chaos” or “crisis”. “A bad time,” he explains. The reality is a statistical blow: two of the twelve possible points.
Last week, the players thought they were in a “crisis”, and to avoid “chaos” they had their lockdown. “We said everything,” one player revealed to various media outlets.
Psychologists like to call this exercise in catharsis “group therapy.” And the more critical it is, the better it should be.
But for Juárez, Chivas He affirmed that he is in crisis and in tactical, mental, moral, football and disciplinary chaos. Loss by 1-2. Right, the referee Isaac Rojas eats a few hauls and fails to score a possible penalty.
But resort to such statements only dimension, the impotence of Chivas as a soccer team. So complaining is an escape to self-criticism.
Is there a cure for this non-crisis and non-chaos, according to the criterion of Vucetich? Of course it does. But it’s about drastic decisions.
1.- TACTICAL CONSISTENCY …
Chivas it has no base frame. And not because he can’t, but because the technical staff don’t want to. You have chosen to rehearse, to improvise, to experiment, to walk. The footballer shows that uncertainty that is so typical of the Mexican player. Y Vucetich encourages it.
The Guadalajaraon paper he has players for an offensive football profile. Because of the coach’s DNA, the elusive strategy of not losing takes precedence as the starting point.
Vucetich has played with the stability of football players. Fernando Beltrán lives in uncertainty. Chicote Calderón comes out of the dressing room with chains when he leaves. Canelo Angle only has to play as a goalkeeper. Before JuarezWhen Uriel Antuna ignored the first orders, that was when it could best be seen in the team’s favor.
Their rotations reach the degree of similar and unsuccessful extravagances, such as that of Juan Carlos Osorio.
Solution: define a base team, strengthen it in the weekly work to identify the differences between starters and substitutes, but above all without diminishing internal competition.
2.- LEADERSHIP …
There is no command and control. There is no player on the court with the authority and weight to raise the players from battle.
In the distance you see cold, scared, remorseful, resigned types. And the worst: abandoned, unprotected.
Because remember that in moments of crisis or disadvantage the footballer, and especially the Mexican, feels orphaned and helpless on the scoreboard, and in that uncertainty forgets the group and tries to fight his own battle. Yes, you got it, you, well: you are the first to leave the ship.
Are there leaders? It was thought that Jesús Molina could bear that responsibility. Impossible. When the team needs it most, he finds himself overwhelmed by doing the homework for others, or, later in the game, fatigued as he no longer coordinates as the effort diminishes the clarity of ideas.
Oribe Peralta? If you cannot acquire property now, how can you earn respect and credibility? Players do not resort to relics other than as an act of fetishism or as a delusion of superstition. The beautiful he has already mummified his speech.
And if there are no leaders in the field, the patient, thrifty wisdom of those in the bench is useless, how King Midas that once was a long time ago.
Solution? Yes Vucetich He doesn’t remember, can’t or won’t, maybe the speech should be given before every game Ricardo PeláezThat he takes his commitment, that he takes on his outstanding debts, that he is faced with the failure of which he is an important part.
3.- PERSONALITY
Chivas it’s a neutered team. The players fight with balls like frightened nymphs in the darkness of their fears. They are afraid of wiping themselves off, they are afraid of risking their skin. They promise to leave life on the field and take more care of the artistic manicure they did this week.
When supposedly rude guys, like Hiram Mier – and there are several of them -, guarded their target with the fierceness of protecting their faces and their noble parts and not wiping so as not to leave the skin and their delicate cuticles muddy on the field, as with that delirium aesthetics defended the shirt, Chivas He would leave the court undefeated and also be ashamed of not having the testosterone to fight every ball.
And this is a reflection of the lack of leadership. Is a UFC fugitive, the Pollo Briseño, to be preferred to the warm and exquisite he sends to the field Vucetich? Surely. Better a man who leaves the court smeared with the opponent’s blood than those who care more about the gel chonguito and his shaved scented armpits.
Personality is not bought or demanded. But the professional responsibility, yes, and that of the players from Chivas it is paid punctually and generously. Here again, the mixture of leadership and authority, and directly the responsibility of Peláez, who must enter the field, the dressing room and head of each of the exquisite soulless gladiators cherubim.
4.- WORK … BUT REALLY
Chivas he is wrong. It badly confronts them against, and squanders them in favor. Diagnosis: lack of work during the week.
Chivas he is wrong in the relay race and accompaniments of the plays. Players do not know what to expect from their teammates as they change them every match. Diagnosis: lack of work during the week.
Chivas he is outnumbered in the attack. With Matías Almeyda and even with Saturnino cardozo, up to six players swarmed in or on the edge of the other area. Today he does it with three or four. Diagnosis: lack of work during the week.
Chivas suffers in the defensive relay. The player withdraws rather than squeeze or anticipate. Or the player hastily surrenders to the sign. Diagnosis: lack of work during the week.
In The herd from Verde Valle, the salary is easy to earn. At most an hour and a half of moderately vigorous exercise, and at home or clandestine parties as these continue, although they now take up the phones on entering to avoid videos.
Is it so short-lived lazy work by the coaching staff or the players or imposing the grace of a conformist directive? Bothers Vucetich the sun or the cold air, or the beautiful tranquility of Verde Valle to work a little more, or Pelaez to spend a few minutes twice a day checking the work of the team.
Given the obvious illiteracy to play as a team, and as a discipline measure, a double practice will never hurt anyone. Either to cure ailments, or to hone systems, a three-hour or more workout-style routine shouldn’t hurt. Ricardo La Volpewithout the necessity of their despotism and tyranny.
But corrupt spirits in training, they will only give corrupt and mined spirits in the field.
5.- PUBLIC RECONCILIATION …
¿Victor Manuel Vucetich Are you not playing to lose, in the hope of winning, by your own decision or by conformist demands from your leadership? ¿Pelaez Y Amaury vergara They demand results and playing style consistent with the historical greatness of Chivas? Or even – out of negligence – not to talk about that subject.
Is tolerance range towards players a maternal philosophy of the OmniLife manager or the corporate script?
The player is safe from criticism. Social media doesn’t put a dent in the shell of his cynicism. Maybe it was time to put them on the scaffold, to climb the scaffold. To them and to all those responsible.
The ideal would be to open training Chivas, but the devastating pandemic prevents it. Since the inception of the closed-door practices, the player has become more conformist and is more confident that he will not be publicly prosecuted.
Today, between empty stadiums and private training, he is not accountable to anyone. Your shamelessness is safe. But it is time for you to face up to your responsibility.
Someone mistakenly thinks it helps the players to keep them hidden, hidden and safe. That helps the footballer to feel cuddled, sheltered, despite his hot flashes on the field. It’s like encouraging him to keep going.
Solution? The time has come to confront fans and media, fans and fears. Recruiting them so that they are unclaimed is one way of promoting their cowardice. Climbing two or three players daily to take it up with fans and reporters is a timely way to remind them that they are playing in Chivas.