October 4, 2024, 7:34 PM
October 4, 2024, 7:34 PM
Luis Suárez, who retired from the Uruguayan national team last month, broke the silence and in an interview with DSports he revealed some details of his relationship with the Celeste coach, Marcelo Bielsa.
‘El Pistolero’, who currently plays for Inter Miami in the United States, He acknowledged that there was tension within the team during the 2024 Copa América, which caused some players to consider leaving the team after the round.
In your case, He explained that his relationship with Bielsa was strictly professional and that the first time he spoke with the coach was shortly before the Copa América.
“The relationship with Bielsa was only professional. The first conversation on a personal level was before the Copa América and then there were a couple more, but nothing deep,” Suárez said.
The forward explained that he detected a distancing between the experienced players of the Uruguayan team and the coach.
“We all know that leaders or experienced players are not to be dealt with. I preferred to avoid getting involved in that moment so as not to cause problems.”, he expressed.
Suárez told of an uncomfortable situation that the player had to experiencer Agustín Canobbio during the Copa América that was played in the United States.
“It wasn’t a ball catcher who put it in, but rather He put it in the sparring part, giving the passes that the sparring partners gave and the sparring partners making the movements that the players had to do. And you can’t involve a player who is among the 26 in the Copa América as if he were a sparring partner, it’s annoying. I understand Agus, I’m going to support him in this one, it’s understandable and he held back quite a bit,” he added.
Apparently, due to the revelations made by ‘El Pistolero’, the environment became almost unsustainable for some players within the Uruguayan national team. The situation is like a time bomb.
“The players are going to reach a limit, they are going to explode… In the Copa América there were teammates who even considered ‘Luis, I’m playing the Copa América and I’m not playing anymore.’ Companions. And you start thinking and say: ‘We are reaching a difficult point.’ Then it goes away, all that heals you, and you go because you love your country, you love the team, and we all die to represent our country,” he explained.
If the atmosphere between the coach and the players was not good, the workers lived something similar at the Selection Complex.
“The props, the physios, the cooks, the people of the Complex loved working with the Maestro (Tabárez), with the teacher Ortega, with the Tornado Alonso of the demands they had. Bring me a cone here, a cone there. They did it by loving life. They went to sleep at four in the morning, got up at nine. It’s not that. It’s the thing about at least later let me enjoy my moment. Let me know that I am here with Luis, with Fede (Valverde), with Josema (Giménez), with Nico (De la Cruz)… I am working for them and I enjoy it. All that was lost today in the Complex,” said the scorer.
“On my last call they were playing tricks and I saw them passing by behind them and looking to see who were playing tricks. There are things that catch my attention. You were going to the Complex and I’m not lying to you, you were having lunch or a snack, you were watching the TV on and watching football. Today there is a hidden TV, everything turned off, all in silence. It’s like you come in and say where I’m coming in,” he added.
Suárez hinted that Bielsa is arrogant in the Uruguayan team, because he does not allow there to be a relationship between the workers and the footballers, and he also does not usually greet, according to ‘El Pistolero’.
“Many players held a meeting to ask the coach to At least he told us good morning, he didn’t even say hello.”he said.
Bielsa would also have tried to cut off all contact between the players and the fans when they went to the concentration hotel to receive them when they arrived from different trips, something that the players did not obey, according to Suárez.
