The controversy continues around Marcelo Bielsa in the selection of Uruguay. These are not good times for the national coach, who has half the squad against him. If a few days ago it was a heavyweight of the team, the recently retired Luis Suárez, the one who criticized the way of acting of the former Athletic Club coachnow it is Agustín Canobbio the one who has exploded, detailing his most personal case.
It all started on Celeste’s return from the Copa América, when he got off the plane with a grim face and, when asked by the media, who wanted to know if he was not happy with third place in the United States, he blurted out: “No. It’s because of the result, you’ll see.” In dialogue with the #Minuto1 program, the Paranaense player explained: “I wanted to talk and it wasn’t the best. It makes you a little sad because I wanted to play and be there but I kept quiet so as not to tarnish the group that came from third place and Some were in their emotions. I respected every decision and preferred to be silent to continue my path, but now there is the possibility of being able to express myself.”
Canobbio gave several details of the tense bond with ‘el Loco’: “Based on the previous calls, I was very clear and knew what awaited me after my reaction and what I said to Bielsa’s face, I have no hair on my face. the language; I am very frontal”. In line with what Suárez said, Canobbio assured that there were several episodes that wore down the Celeste from the inside: “There was a lot of constant disrespect and there came a point where I exploded. I knew the consequences that could come and in Based on that, I acted the same, I went ahead with my codes and values that were instilled in me as a child and luckily today I sleep peacefully.”
Canobbio, between Suárez and Valverde
And he confessed that he took it out on him for a Uruguay defeat: “It impacted me a lot. In the match with Ecuador in the Qualifiers, he blamed me for having lost a game. We are 11 players and he blamed me.” In addition, he said that they argued in training: “We had had an exchange of words with him and he disrespected me in front of the entire group and it was there that Suárez told me to let him speak and not expose myself. And no He had a response. I went there to calm things down to have a pleasant coexistence and I didn’t receive a response either. He told me that there were hierarchies within the campus and then he talked to me about one thing and to the group about another. Afterwards we were all the same?”
And more: “Once I was giving a meeting in front of everyone for something special that had to be done the way he wanted, I was sitting listening and having both my legs resting on the legs of the chair for him was disrespectful.” He messed with my family’s education. It seemed like he was reproaching me for something that had nothing to do with me. I looked at him like I said, ‘Stop it a little bit’ because I’m not a guy who can take it all. I started to have few fleas and in the end I ended up breaking out.
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Outraged by remembering those situations, Canobbio fired at the man from Rosario: “I’m not going to allow myself to be ignored by anyone, no matter who he is, whether he has won whatever it is or not, whether he has achieved results, it does not allow him or give him the power to treat anyone that way.”
