Tijuana striker Fabián Castillo said on Tuesday that with coach Reinaldo Rueda the Colombian national team will meet again with
football that led her to play in the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and Russia 2018.
“With the new coach, the team will gradually find this football that made it qualify for two World Cups and rediscovered this dynamic and fluid football that we lost in the last qualifiers,” said the former player of the ‘Sports Cali and Dallas.
The return of Roda to the bench of the absolute selection of Colombia was announced last January 14, shortly after resigning from the selection of Chile, and as a result of the detachment of the Portuguese Carlos Queiroz.
Queiroz’s departure was precipitated by two thrashings suffered by Colombia in the World Cup qualifiers in Qatar, first against Uruguay by 0-3 in Barranquilla and days later by 6-1 against Ecuador in Quito. Fabián Castillo, who played in the under-17 and under-19 teams between 2009 and 2011, said he was confident that Roda’s return would not only improve his country’s position in the South American qualifiers, the seventh among ten participants, but he can dream of a call, if he stands out in Tijuana.
“Of course this makes me keep the excitement, to think that the possibility is there and that’s why I have to give myself and improve every day with my team, because the excitement of a call stays alive,” he said. underlined the striker.
Castell scored his first goal in the current Mexican Clausura tournament on the sixth date and thus helped Tijuana beat León. “The goal filled me with confidence, because a while ago I wanted to do it, it had not been given to me, although I had had opportunities. Fortunately it was already given and I am very happy because only with that confidence will I be able to achieve this dream.”
Tijuana is in third place with 12 points and remains unbeaten with three wins and three draws. “So far things have gone well for us and this gives us confidence to continue proposing our football, not to hide in any stadium and go out to propose without fear of losing the unbeaten,” said the Colombian.
On the seventh day Tijuana will visit Tigres next Sunday. “We want to give a blow to authority against Tigres, which I think is one of the most difficult rivals to face in the League,” said the player born 28 years ago in Cali.