Today we saw a shadow of that team again. With almost the same protagonists, the team is now living a nightmare present and all eyes are pointing to Juan Reynoso, the coach who took over from Ricardo Gareca and promised to build on the ‘Tigre’ legacy.
Looking at the first six games of the Qualifiers, it is clear that Reynoso cheated us all, that we have seen him destroy what he inherited. The ‘chess player’ turned a competitive team into a harmless and soulless team, which scores a goal every 500 minutes, is incapable of sustaining a result, much less winning a match.
Where Gareca did wonders, Reynoso does damage. And his hand is seen in this team without soul and without ideas, but also in the resounding decline experienced in the individual performance of the majority of the players.. The man of perpetual rotations put an end to the societies and automatisms of a group that has clearly lost its compass. The last place we occupy is not coincidental and the worst thing is that it does not seem that we can aspire to better results if a radical change is not made.
It’s time to say ‘enough is enough’. Reynoso lives in an alternative reality where the defeat against the worst Bolivia of this century is meritorious and the terrible results are the responsibility of anyone but his. That he is capable of ‘throwing’ his players in order to save his skin. Let’s just remember how he mistreated the young people of League 1 Bettson or how he used Oliver Sonne to divert attention from his bad decisions at the head of the bicolor. Listening to it at the end of yesterday’s game was a repetition of that same sad and worn-out script.
A script that has ended up exhausting the fans. Because beyond the bad results, the worst legacy of the Reynoso era is having destroyed the team’s relationship with the people. The damage to the ‘Peruvian national team’ brand is just beginning to be seen, from the drop in the price of t-shirts to the public call for attention from a sponsor, but the magnitude of what we have lost will only be seen in its full magnitude. in the coming months.
The Qualifiers stop will be good for us. The next coach of the national team will have time to fine-tune the team and recover its values. Because the damage is still reversible and classification is still within reach. But if we do not face the problem and make the urgent decisions, returning to a World Cup will continue to be a chimera.
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