Héctor Vargas, Argentine coach of the Marathon, is used to facing challenges, he likes them, and now that he will face the Portland Timbers of the MLS at the crossroads of the Champions League round of 16 Concacaf, Feeling that they can surprise the competition.
The Argentine already faced the Oregon team when he led the ‘ Olympics in 2015 ringing the bell and eliminating it. He believes that now that the duels will be back and forth, the possibilities are multiplying and will seek to take advantage of it by taking good advantage of San Pedro Sula.
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What you know about Portland: “A connoisseur like CONCACAF and this type of tournament, when playing an MLS team there are chances to advance, and when they face Olimpia five years ago and we eliminate them from CONCACAF with high level players like Diego Valeri , “La Gata” Fernández who came from Estudiantes, Sebastià Urruti It is different to face them in competition (MLS starts on April 17), but there is always a bit of doubt in how it works, it always happens in teams to seek to advance to the next round “.
Close business key: “The advantage that can be taken away is that they are still in a softening process because they are inactive, you have to take advantage. Always in these tournament starts when it comes to MLS club there is more chance of advancing. They have a budget “It’s good and in the middle of the tournament it’s hard to beat them. I already had to play against Vancouver, Seattle, and Portland with Olimpia and I won all three home games, and against Portland we went to the next round.”
Key to progress: “The advantage of playing at home. We playing at home in April there is a difference with the change of climate, it’s still cold there, here we are for Easter and with a lot of heat. In short, when playing a there are always a few possibilities back and forth. “
Emilio and Crisanto signings: “They will give me experience, they are players who have championships, I had to play a recent local final with seven players who had never played a final, they were young, I had an 18-year-old left winger. Both Emilio and Wilmer they will bring experience to the team. I have a young squad and that is why I am looking for experienced players to have a compact team. Now Banegas and Johnson left and having the experience of them, the competition will have other possibilities ” .
Filings to compete in Concacaf: “I wasn’t thinking about this tournament, but because I didn’t need the team that had them. I had Wilmer Crisanto in Victoria, and Emilio coincidentally has Luis Vega who will surely be in the Pre-Olympic with the Under-23s. and really the coming of the two was because they took them out of their team and they come to a club to compete. They chose Marathon because they want to compete and represent the country. They wanted to come and bring us the experience. “