They say that the pita breaks on the weakest side and that place is where Reynoso is currently. Although it is difficult to accept, because I believe that processes must be sustained until the end, there is no argument in terms of results and performances to justify the coach’s continuity after facing ‘Vinotinto’. We are last in South America, we barely added one point out of a possible 15, we have not scored goals and we have not recorded any victories either. That is to say, we are in a complicated situation that is difficult to reverse. It requires titanic, almost miraculous work, and the necessary support that Juan no longer has.
Reynoso’s Peru is a team that does not know what it is playing, that wanders on the field and forgot to win. It is difficult for them to have the ball, win the divisions, team up to break lines and create goal situations. It seems like a timorous selection, which takes few risks and shows underperformance. It has lost its own identity, that ‘chocolate’ DNA that made us known to the world and today we miss more than ever. You may say that we do not have players in the big leagues, but even in our lack we managed to qualify for the World Cup when Ricardo Gareca led the team.
So, it’s not about what we don’t have, but about doing a lot with a little. And it seems that Reynoso doesn’t know how to do it. He did not find a way for his speech to reach his players or convince them that his understanding of soccer is the best for the bicolor. Therefore, breaking a cycle is sometimes necessary to start a new one. A different one, that opens hope towards the classification and recovers that old connection with the people. Juan Carlos Oblitas said that this cannot be lost, but he must accept that the feeling is no longer the same as before.
Reynoso must leave because there are reasons within football to do so. Not because of an advertising campaign by a national team sponsor that uses the feelings of the fan to explicitly demand the departure of the coach. I had never seen something like this before, but anything can happen here, especially when in the FPF there are people as questioned as Agustín Lozano. What’s more, that leaked information about how much Reynoso and his technical command earn came from Videna, from an unreliable and dishonest person. With what interest is the coach’s salary leaked? Under what argument? For what purpose?
Be that as it may, the bicolor is in the middle of everything and needs to recover itself. To reach the World Cup, you don’t need a coach obsessed with every movement of his players on the field, but one who knows how to give them the freedom to play. Peru is used to making its football the art of deception and that is what it should aim for. Whoever takes over as the national team’s diver in the future will have to be more like Ricardo than Juan. And there aren’t many with that profile.
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