Héctor Vargas, Argentinian Marathon coach, is used to taking on challenges, he likes them, and now he will face the Portland Timbers of the MLS in the intersection of the eighth of the champions of Concacaffeel they can surprise the competition.
The Argentinian was already facing the Oregon team when he took the Olympiad ring the bell in 2015 and take it out. He believes that now the duels will go back and forth, the possibilities multiply and they will try to take advantage of this by taking a good advantage in San Pedro Sula.
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What you know about Portland: “When you know what Concacaf and tournaments like this are like, playing an MLS team has opportunities to move forward. I faced them with Olimpia five years ago and we eliminated them from Concacaf with players of a high level like Diego Valeri, “La Gata” Fernández who came from Estudiantes, Sebastián Urruti. It’s different to see them in competition (the MLS starts on April 17th), but there is always a bit of doubt about how it works, it always happens in the teams to move on to the next round ”.
Close the visit key: “The advantage that can be taken is that they are still in a softening process because they are inactive, you have to take advantage of that. Always in this beginning of tournaments, when it’s your turn at your MLS club, there is more opportunity to move forward. They have a good budget and in the middle of the tournament it’s hard to beat them. I already had to play against Vancouver, Seattle and Portland with Olimpia and I won the three first leg games at home, and against Portland we went to the next round.
Key to continue: “The advantage of playing at home. We play at home in April, there is a difference with the change of the weather, it is still cold there, here we are at Easter and very warm. In short, there is always a small chance when playing a tour ”.
Transfers from Emilio and Crisanto: “They will give me experience, they are players who have championships, I had to play a recent local final with seven players who had never played a final, they were young, I had an 18 year old left back. Both Emilio and Wilmer will bring me experience to the team. I have a young team and that is why I am looking for experienced players for a compact team. Now that Banegas and Jhonson have left and with their experience, the competition has other possibilities ”.
Signals to Compete in Concacaf: “This tournament wasn’t thought of, but the fact that the team that had them didn’t need them. I had Wilmer Crisanto in Victoria, and Emilio happens to have Luis Vega who will definitely be in Pre-Olympic with the Under-23 and the arrival of the two was real because they were removed from their team and they came to a club to compete. They chose Marathón because they want to compete and represent the country. They wanted to come and they will bring us the experience ”.