LOS ANGELES – Victor Manuel Vucetich He kept talking about lack of attitude in the Chivas players, but the coach refuses to use words like “chaos” or “crisis”. “A bad time,” he explains. The reality is a statistical slap: two points out of 12 possible.
Last week, the players did believe they were in a “crisis”, and to avoid “chaos”, they had their trap. “We told each other everything,” one player revealed to various media outlets.
Psychologists take advantage of this by calling this exercise of catharsis “group therapy.” And the higher it is, the better results it should give.
But in front of Juárez, Chivas ratified that he is in crisis and in tactical, emotional, moral, football and disciplinary chaos. Lose by 1-2. True, the referee Isaac Rojas he eats a couple of expulsions and stops scoring a possible penalty.
But resorting to such explanations only dimension, the impotence of Chivas as a football team. Complaining like this is an escapism to self-criticism.
This non-crisis and non-chaos, according to the criterion of Vucetich? And so much so that he has it. But, it involves drastic decisions.
1.- TACTICAL COHERENCE …
Chivas it does not have a base box. And not because he can’t, but because the coaching staff doesn’t want to. He has chosen to rehearse, improvise, experiment, ramble. The footballer shows this insecurity so typical of the Mexican player. I Vucetich encourages it.
the Guadalajara, On paper, he has players for an offensive football profile. However, due to the coach’s DNA, this fleeting strategy of not losing prevails, as a starting point.
Vucetich has played with the stability of footballers. Fernando Beltrán lives in uncertainty. Chicote Calderón leaves with chains – when it leaves -, from the dressing room. Canelo Angle only needs to play goalkeeper. in front Juárez, When Uriel Antuña ignored the initial orders, it was when he was best seen for the benefit of the team.
Their rotations reach the degree of similar and unsuccessful extravagances, such as those of Joan Carles Osorio.
Solution: define a base team, strengthen the weekly work to establish the differences between incumbents and substitutes, but, most importantly, without denigrating internal competition.
2.- LEADERSHIP …
There is no command voice. There is no player on the court with authority and weight, for from within the skirmish, exalt the players.
In the distance you see dazed, frightened, saddened, resigned types. And the worst: abandoned, unprotected.
Because, remember that the footballer, and especially the Mexican, in times of crisis or disadvantage on the scoreboard, feels orphaned, helpless, and in these insecurity ranks forgets about the group and tries to deliver his own battle. Yes, he understood, yours, well: he is the first to leave the ship.
Are there leaders? It was thought that Jesus Molina could bear this volume of responsibility. Impossible. When the team needs it most, he finds himself overwhelmed doing the work of others, or then advanced the game, tired, no longer coordinating because the effort reduces the clarity of ideas.
Oribe Peralta? If he is not able to earn and in ownership, how can he gain respect and credibility. Players resort to relics only as an act of fetishism or as a delusion of superstition. the Bell he has mummified and in his speech.
And when there are no leaders on the track, the patient, parsimonious wisdom of those on the bench is useless. King Midas that once, a long time ago, it has been.
Solution? Yes Vucetich he no longer knows, cannot or does not want to, perhaps the harangue before each match has to give it Ricardo Peláez, To assume its commitment, to assume its outstanding debts, which in the face of its failure is an important part.
3.- PERSONALITY
Chivas it is a castrated team. His players fight balls like frightened nymphs in the darkness of their fears. They are afraid to sweep, they are afraid to risk their skin. They promise to leave life on the track and care more about the artistic manicure they did for the week.
If supposedly rude guys, like Hiram Mier — and there are several–, would guard his goal with the vehemence that protects his face, his noble parts, and avoids sweeping so as not to muddy the epidermis and his delicate cuticles in the track, if with this aesthetic delirium they defended the shirt, Chivas he would not leave the court defeated, and moreover, ashamed of not having the testosterone to fight every ball.
And that is a reflection of the lack of leadership. It is preferable to a trapped UFC fugitive, the Chicken Briseño, than the warm and exquisite he commands on the court Vucetich? Certainly. Better a poor horse than no horse at all, rather than a cold-blooded chonguito and his frayed fragrant armpits.
Personality is not bought or demanded. But the professional responsibility, yes, and that of the players Chivas she is punctual and generously remunerated. Here, again, the mixture of leadership and authority, and directly the responsibility of Peláez, who must get on the track, the investor and the caper of each of the exquisite gladiators without the soul of gladiators.
4.- WORK … BUT REALLY
Chivas is mistaken for a set piece. He confronts them badly against them, and wastes them in favor. Diagnosis: lack of work per week.
Chivas is wrong in the relays and accompaniments of the plays. Players don’t know what to expect from their teammates because they change them in every game. Diagnosis: lack of work per week.
Chivas is outnumbered in the attack. with Matías Almeyda and even with Saturnino Cardozo, Up to six players swarmed in or on the outskirts of the opposing area. Today he does it with or three 4 p.m. Diagnosis: lack of work per week.
Chivas suffers in defensive relief. The player folds instead of pressing or anticipating. Or the player rushes to the mark. Diagnosis: lack of work per week.
en the Ramat of Verd Vall the salary is easy to earn. An hour and a half, at most, of a moderately vigorous exercise, and to home or to clandestine parties, for these to follow, though they now confiscate the phones on entering to avoid videos.
Is working so concisely lazy from the coaching staff or imposing players or clemency from a conformist board? It bothers him Vucetich the sun or the cold air, or the magnificent placidity of Verd Vall to work a little harder, or Peláez to spend a few minutes overseeing the team’s work twice a day.
In the face of obvious illiteracy to play as a team, and as a measure of discipline, a double training session will never hurt anyone. Either to cure diseases, or to perfect systems, it should not hurt a routine of three hours or more of training in the style of Ricardo La Volpe, Without the need for his despotism and tyranny.
But, pampered spirits in training, they will only give pampered and mined spirits on the track.
5.- PUBLIC ATMISSION …
Do youVictor Manuel Vucetich does he play not to lose, in the hope of winning, by his own decision or by the conformist demand of his leadership? Do youPeláez i Amaury Vergara they demand results and style of play according to the historical greatness of Chivas? Or they did not even – negligently – get to talk about it.
Is the range of tolerance towards players the maternal philosophy of the Omnilife coach or business booklet?
The player is safe from criticism. Social media has no effect on the shell of their cynicism. Maybe then it was time to climb them on the scaffold, to climb them into the gallows. To them and to all those responsible.
The ideal would be to open the workouts of Chivas, But the devastating pandemic prevents it. Since the internship began behind closed doors, the player has become more conformist, more confident that he will not be publicly prosecuted.
Today, between empty stadiums and private training sessions, he is not accountable to anyone. His shamelessness is safe. But, it is time for him to confront his responsibility.
Someone mistakenly thinks that keeping them hidden, hidden, safe, helps players. This helps the footballer feel refreshed, welcomed, despite his embarrassment on the court. It’s like encouraging him to keep it that way.
Solution? The time has come for them to confront hobby and media, already hobby and fears. Shutting them down so that they are not claimed is a way to sharpen their pusillanimity. Climbing two or three players daily in collisions with fans and reporters is a timely way to remind them to play Chivas.