2023-06-23 12:02:03
Jorge Célico, former coach of the Ecuadorian soccer team and Barcelona Sporting Club, spoke EXCLUSIVELY with Radio KCH FM 90.9 and referred to several important issues, after his arrival in Peruvian soccer, his time in Barcelona and the participation of the sub20 in the World Cup in Argentina and support for Leonardo Campana, Jeison Mina and Josué Quiñónez
The teacher began by telling how his adaptation to Peruvian soccer has been directing Real Garcilaso, the differences between the Ecuadorian and Peruvian players. He also revealed that at the time he had signed Giordana and Pedro Vite for Barcelona if he continued in 2023.
Finally, he uncovered everything that happened during his time as Barcelona coach, the lack of support for the young players, his criticism of Egas for taking Bran out of the sub20 and the management of planning in the World Cup in Argentina.
HIS ARRIVAL IN PERUVIAN SOCCER
«Without belittling or extolling anyone, Ecuadorian soccer has grown a lot. There is also quality here in Peru, they are very technically gifted, perhaps we take advantage of them physically.
Today in Ecuador more work is done in smaller divisions, here it is more centralized in Lima and not the whole country. They are two different realities, there is a development in Ecuadorian soccer but there is enormous talent in Peruvian soccer, I think that in the future it is very technically rich.
There is a lot of passion here, the statistics came out yesterday, my team after University is the team that brings the most people to a playing field
ECUADORIANS IN PERU
We have very fast footballers, yesterday I saw an Ecuador that managed to stand out physically
I have three players, Joao Rojas, Betancourt, and now Andrés Chicaiza. They take advantage, here is a great market for the Ecuadorian soccer player because of his ability.
Giordana was going to play in Barcelona
There was an approach from the League and other clubs in Ecuador… I had asked Santiago GIORDANA for Barcelona, he is a terrible striker. On my side, he and the board already know that we are not going to release him until the end of the year.
Everything was arranged with Giordana to be the forward of Barcelona in 2023, those things in life did not happen. They had already sent him a pre-contract. The truth is a formidable striker. Today he is the top scorer in Peruvian soccer
RECOVER CHICAIZA
I found it very good, I admire Chicaiza. It happens to me as DT that I admire players and one of them is Andrés.
Chicaiza arrived without football, the good guitarist does not lose the times of music. From a physical point of view, he was fine and the rhythm of the game is acquiring it.
PEDRO VITE WAS GOING TO PLAY IN BARCELONA
I had asked Pedro Vite, I had asked him, we had everything agreed to take him to Barcelona, since I had him in the national team.
Full support for Campana
There are people who always do well in life, you stick your head out and they tear it off. Leo is a great player, he has some formidable conditions. You think that by chance he plays where he plays, by chance he came out as a scorer in the South American.
In that 2019 tournament, the other striker for Argentina was Julián Álvarez. When you have a good player, you have to bank him, if I catch people’s stupidity and go play tennis.
With whom does Campana compete, with Enner and with whom else? For me they must bank a player who has many conditions. I am not characterized by destroying anyone.
I have no doubt that there will come a time when it will pay off. There is not a player in Ecuador who has those conditions in that position that Campana
Bad planning for the U20 World Cup
There are players, I don’t discover anything. The boys who played I had everything. For me there was only one mistake, as a rookie that the DTs comment, Bravo is a barbarian kid, he is a young team.
You can’t take 2006 boys, when the limit was 2003. For me it’s good that they took it to Kendry Páez but for me it’s going to cost him or it cost the boy.
The national teams are the high performance of soccer. It seems to me that the sub20 in the World Cup gave advantages. They had guys, very good players, don’t get me wrong. There were 2003 players who had more maturity to support this.
UNLOADING EGAS FOR THE EXIT OF JIMMY BRAN
Miguel Bravo is a boy who wants to do things well. But if I was as a selection assistant I did not allow that. It is an aberration what they did with Jimmy, cut processes.
He himself saw his mistakes, I did not agree at all. I was eight years with Francisco Egas, look if I don’t know him, Rodrigo Espinoza is a friend of mine, if I see them I tell them to their faces. They were totally wrong.
Why didn’t they throw out Gustavo Alfaro who entered the World Cup fourth?? That is why a Sports Director is important in matters of selection. I do not agree at all.
I took Jimmy Bran to the FEF, I wanted to give the Ecuadorian identity to the team. I was shoulder to shoulder with Jimmy, he grabs the sub20 when I go to Barcelona, the truth is an aberration.
Jimmy Bran is not only a good guy, but a very responsible and hard-working person, you have to appreciate when you have people like that. Miguel Bravo is an exceptional guy but it was not the time to take Jimmy out
DEFENDS JEISON MINA, JOSUE QUIÑONEZ, AND LAUNCHES CRITICISM AT THE MANAGEMENT
DO NOT make me talk, you have to know how to put a boy and not throw him on the court when you want to look good with people. The clubs must support, not scare them when they put two or three Twitters on it.
Jeison Mina must have less than 20 first-round games. Everyone who talks about it will have done well in their first 10 days of work, to sustain it you have to have guts, but some managers get scared, they get two shouts and they put a pair of Twitter and they get scared.
Jeison is a very good footballer but he needs a training stage, the same happens with Josué Quiñónez, not to mention OBANDO.
HINT TO A COACH
I know them all, they don’t sell me anything, I know the coaches who support the players and the others who sell smoke. I made five debut in Barcelona, get me out of that.
In Barcelona you can talk to the leaders, I said I want to bring one and stay with another. One was Cifuentes and the other Obando and I’m sure it would have been better for me
The word leader is directing, putting yourself in charge of the project, it cannot be directed by the coach. You must support the DT, you must support that coach. Leaders like Deller are needed to put more money in INFERIOR than in the largest.
YOUR DEPARTURE FROM BARCELONA
What bothered me, look at everything that happened after I left, I left him fourth, he finished eighth, he lost the final, they destroyed everything I left behind.
We got rid of six players and we only brought one player, to help the financial championship, they didn’t care at all.
Six left and that’s how we won the stage, today I’m very sorry that they didn’t win the stage and the DTs continue. I wish the club now had a project, but a well-structured one.
I wish Barcelona the best, I loved being there. I am very sorry that today they hire three foreign forwards, I have never seen anything like it, they are lost. I hope they have a great 2024, since 2023 is practically lost.
THE DUEL AGAINST ARGENTINA
It’s going to be very difficult, we’re going to face the biggest team in the world, it’s a consolidated team. I don’t know, leave the homework to Sánchez Baz, let him rack his brains.
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