The Real Spain coach, Raúl “Potro” Gutiérrez, Mexican, former player of America, rival that this Wednesday will face Olimpia for the Champions of CONCACAF, analyzes the Aztec table and reveals in this talk with DEU that for the eagles there is no team B, it’s just a way of expressing oneself from journalists.
“El Potro” defended the American shirt with the team led by the Dutchman, Leo Beenhakker, in the early 90’s and has the DNA of Coapa’s club in his blood. “In America if it’s a shell against anyone or a CONCACAF game, you have to win it,” Gutiérrez comments.
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Olimpia will host the feathered ones at the National Stadium this Wednesday. The most successful team in Aztec football will leave their main figures resting, as they are fighting the MX League lead against the Blue Cross. On Saturday they beat Necaxa and the other weekend they face Tigers. The CONCACAF is taking it in the background according to its leadership.
What can you tell me about America coming to play against Olympia on Wednesday?
What I can tell you is that there are rumors that if he comes with a B team … But if America comes with a B team he will win, the people here who don’t confuse a team’s DNA because I played there , and if we went with the rookies and three or four of experience, it was to win. This is something that if it happens, if America gives that margin of advantage, Olympia will take advantage of it. But America will come to want to win because as an examinericanist I tell you: with novices or with experience or with those who come, it will come to win.
Have you faced Olympia twice and already know him well; Do you think that those in the capital have a team to compete head to head in Solarium America?
It’s football and in the end anything can happen in football, I’m convinced of that, but surely Olimpia has shown that it is a consistent team, its results support it and no one says otherwise. Its history and its times, the nobility compels and in this case has all the arguments to compete in America.
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Why Mexicans always take these CONCACAF competencies as a background; is it contempt or what?
I think it’s because of perception, but I think in this new century this has changed because new competitions have opened up like the League of Nations, the Champions competition. Today somehow what Mexico has closed the CONMEBOL because in the end I think this has to do with what you say, that they could be competing in Libertadores with a different type of organization and it is necessary to mention it, when you played no CONCACAF looked at the shortcomings they did not have on the other side; this creates trends. Today with CONCACAF football organized in another way without South American competition, it has to be re-evaluated and it will have to take a different point of view. CONCACAF is improving in these projects and this part that you say you deserve has been reduced, today Mexican football understands that it is the football in which it is, CONCACAF and is taking it with better responsibility and more respect for the competition .
Do you feel that for Mexico coming to play in Central America takes away a little growth because it is no longer the same as going to play against River or Boca en Conmebol?
Yes, but I tell you, in Mexico the competition at club level has always been very good, so much so that when you enter South American Cups and Libertadores they always competed well, then when you adapt to this level of play there an improvement. But the competition at the club level is good and what I think more than anything else is always reflected at the team level when you play against Central American teams. The distances have been shortened and this is evident and you have to be more careful in these handles and not come up with an overconfidence on either side because any team can beat you.
Do you see chances for Olympia to take advantage of America by taking points from her?
Well there should be, but one thing to interpret from big teams like Olympia, Real Spain, Marathon and Motagua is that they have to compete yes or yes for history. This will depend on how they take the perspective of these teams.
Will it be influenced by the fact that Solari, DT of America knows little about the Central American teams, I’m talking about living it, even though he’s competing in the region?
I do not think so. It was up to me to come and play with America in Guatemala or El Salvador, I don’t remember well, but I don’t think it’s a factor with the coach, it has a lot to do with the baggage of the players who are tested in the art of football. This adaptation I’m talking about is that it has to be fast, if the track is bad, it’s bad for the 22 players, you don’t have to put the track as a pretext, or the weather. Today football is closing pretexts and representative teams like America, Chivas, Olimpia, Real Spain, they have no pretexts, their fans want to see them win and compete well and it is valid. It is the responsibility of a great team.
In America there are players for teams A and B … or rather when you put on the shirt of a big one what is the feeling because the eagles are required and are not allowed to lose because they are destroyed.
With no one to lose, this is the most radical difference between America and Chivas. The requirement in America does not compare to the bare minimum with the requirement for Chivas, so this forces teams in particular in America. If it is a shell against whoever it is, you have to win it and if it is an official CONCACAF Champions League game, you have to win it and if it is in the MX League you have to win it. For America it’s the DNA I mentioned to you, this big team DNA, if you don’t do well the press kills you, the manager kills you, your teammate fights it.
So right now in front of Olympia comes America, no B team as mentioned?
It exists from a journalistic point of view. Imagine if I’m an American player and I’m on the roster and I’m going to play wherever you drive and I’m told I’m a B player, no go, no. I’m a First Division player with America, but it’s a thought situation. I think if people think that America will come to play an unimportant game, no, obviously it’s because they don’t know the roots of this team and with the players who come they will want to win.