Transcript · Spanish → English
Discussion on World Cup Travel and Adaptation
Time change, going to Miami,
I think Colombia has suffered from that.
Maybe later, when you leave the pitch, you say that doesn't count.
Yeah, "it doesn't count." It does count,
of course it counts. You spent it traveling, rest is fundamental.
Above all, what I was saying,
at the end of the World Cup, I think the matches should be further apart.
I won't get tired of saying it because I think it has to be that way. And yet,
that's when you have the least rest, and the trips are still just as long.
Luckily, we haven't traveled that much,
but that's not because they didn't help us, it's just in case.
If we finished second, we would have had to travel all over the place.
In the end, we took the highway because we did well, that's the reality.
But in principle
when before the World Cup you think it over and say, if we have to do all this,
you definitely pay for it, without a doubt.
I think Colombia has suffered from this a bit
because we know people there and that really weighs on you. It's one of those things.
Then this new format where the match is stopped, you adapt to it,
it's what you have to do.
And I think that now we are adapted to that,
at least we as a coaching staff are adapted, we know it's going to stop,
we know we have to talk during that minute, 30 seconds,
it's three minutes, but we talk for a minute, we don't talk much more because
we don't give them too much information either.
But you use the new things positively, let's say.
And the others, I tried to minimize.
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Original transcript (Spanish)
Cambio de horario, ir a Miami, Colombia creo que ha sufrido eso. Es que, a lo mejor, después cuando uno sale de la cancha y dice eso no cuenta. Sí, sí no cuenta. Sí que cuenta, claro que cuenta. Te pasaste viajando, el descanso es fundamental.
Sobre todo, lo que yo decía, el final del Mundial yo creo que tendría que ser más separado los partidos. No me voy a cansar de decirlo porque creo que tiene que ser así. Y sin embargo, es cuando menos descanso tener y los viajes siguen siendo igual de largos. Por suerte nosotros no hemos viajado tanto,
pero eso no es porque no nos han ayudado, es por la duda. Si éramos segundos nos tocaba viajar por todos lados. Al final agarramos la autopista porque nos fue bien, es la realidad. Pero en principio cuando antes del Mundial le das vuelta y decís si tenemos que hacer todo esto,
sí que lo pagás, sin duda. Creo que Colombia algo de esto ha sufrido porque tenemos gente conocida ahí y eso sí que pesa. Es una de las cosas. Después la modalidad nueva esta que se para el partido, te vas adaptando, es lo que toca.
Y yo creo que ahora estamos adaptados a eso, al menos nosotros como cuerpo técnico estamos adaptados, sabemos que se va a parar, sabemos que tenemos que hablar ese minuto, 30 segundos, son tres minutos, pero nosotros hablamos un minuto, no hablamos mucho más porque tampoco le damos demasiada información.
Pero va utilizando las nuevas cosas positivamente, digamos. Y las otras intentaba minimizarla.
