Jorge Vivaldo: "I still suffer for Colón, even facing them now" | OneFootball

Jorge Vivaldo, coach of Talleres de Remedios de Escalada, spoke this morning with ADN Gol ahead of the match against Colón and said the following:

Yes, honestly, we were chosen. This week we’ve been talking with several media outlets from there, from the city, always… The truth is I’m always talking with you, but well, obviously this match even more so. And I was telling them that, you know? I can’t imagine what the Colón players must be going through right now, because honestly, it’s not our turn. The first year I arrived, I came after the final lost in Córdoba.

Of course. It was like people got that far, and everything had gone back to not believing again. And well, it was a year where we had ups and downs, we made it to the playoffs, we were knocked out, until, as you said, we were lucky in that second year to put together a great team that was as much a team on the field as off it, and we achieved promotion.

But we also had to go through some tough weeks, maybe we were kept afloat by the results in the derbies, which thank God we managed to win. So I kind of understand the moment. But of course, we were coming from, as you said, years and years and years of being in the B. Here, three or four years ago, you were first division champions.

So it’s such a difficult situation and those moments, you know? I talk a lot with Chupete, we talk with the guys in the group. Obviously I suffer for Colón, for the clubs. Even though this weekend I have to be their opponent and all.

It’s a complex, difficult, unimaginable situation. Because it’s tough, but when it happens, it hurts twice as much.

Yes, these are unimaginable things. In other years it happened, I think, like with Chacarita Alonso, they went from first to C division, there are definitely problems, institutional, all kinds. Whenever these things happen, there’s a degree of blame.

You mention Talleres, a team that mainly sells players, so you go from having a competitive squad to a team that’s maybe depleted, and playing in cups, which wears you out a lot. When you play in cups, the travel, the logistics, going to play in Venezuela might mean a two-hour trip, because you have to connect, make a stopover, especially when you’re from the interior, even though Córdoba is an international airport, so the wear and tear adds up. Notice that many teams that play and reach the final stages of the Copa Argentina from the lower divisions struggle in the local championship.

It’s very hard to sustain a double competition, even the big teams sometimes struggle, so these things happen. Nowadays, because we talk about new generations and I talk about people in general, about human beings, above all, I don’t know if it has to do with all the things we’ve lived through, the pandemic, losing loved ones and all, it’s like emotional blows hit twice, three times as hard as before. Today, you’re surprised by the person who resists, who gets back up, and before it was a constant.

Look, we’re at a stage, I’ll tell you a bit today, you know, people in general, when we got here the team had gone two or three matches without scoring a goal, we were dead last, the closest teams to us at that time were CADU and Central Norte de Salta. The start was tough, the team started to improve, started scoring, we drew with Gimnasia de Mendoza, started getting good results, won three home games in a row and we were preparing to play a big final with CADU at home three matches ago, we lost an incredible game, missing five goals right in front of the net and that was a blow, because we could have overtaken CADU, potentially been six points ahead of other rivals, we lost the final we had prepared for, and we tried to pick ourselves up as best we could, worked a lot, trained a lot, went to Temperley and played a great game, but didn’t take our chances and lost in stoppage time. It’s tough.

Look, we don’t touch our pitch, they don’t lend it to us because they’re improving it, we’re as much visitors as those who come to play, so it literally hurts us, the other day, when we play on good pitches, the team gets better, we played a great game with Temperley, I told you about the match in Mendoza, most of the pitches in the B Nacional are very good, and the truth is, the team we have is one that will catch your eye, because it’s a team that plays good football.

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