Jorge Vivaldo: Of course I feel for Colón, though I face them now | OneFootball

This morning, Jorge Vivaldo, coach of Talleres de Remedios de Escalado, spoke with ADN Gol in the run-up to the match against Colón and said the following:

Yes, the truth is, we were chosen. This week we have been speaking with several media outlets from the city, I always... The truth is that I am always speaking with you, but well, this match obviously more so. And I was telling them that, right? I can't imagine what the Colón players must be going through right now, because the truth is that it doesn't affect us. The first year I arrived, I arrived after the lost final in Córdoba.

Of course. It was as if the people had gotten there, everything had stopped believing. And well, it was a year where we had ups and downs, we were reduced, we were left out, until later, as you say, we were fortunate that second year, to put together a great team that was as much a team on the field as off it and achieve promotion.

But we also had to live through some difficult weeks, perhaps the results of the classics sustained us, which thank God we were able to win. So I more or less understand the moment. But of course, we came from what you said, from years and years and years of being in the B. Here three years ago, four years ago, you were a first division champion.

So that situation and those moments are so difficult, do you understand? I talk a lot with Chupete, we talk with the guys in the group. Obviously I suffer for Colón, for the clubs. Even though today it's my adversary this weekend and all.

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

Yes, unimaginable things. In other years it happened, I think, the guy like Chacarita Alonso, they went from first to the C, there are sure problems, institutional, of all kinds. Always when these things happen there is a degree of guilt.

You mention the thing about Talleres, a purely selling team, so you go from having a competitive squad to a team that is perhaps decimated and playing cups, which playing cups wears you out a lot. When you play cups, the trips, the logistics, going to play in Venezuela implies perhaps a two-hour trip, because you have to go and connect, make a stopover, especially when you are from the interior, beyond Córdoba, which is an international airport, so the wear and tear that it produces. Notice that many teams that play and reach the final stages of the Copa Argentina from the ascent suffer the local championship.

It's very difficult to sustain a double competition, it's hard for the big ones sometimes, so these things happen. Nowadays, because we talk about new generations and I talk about people in general, about the human being, especially, I don't know if it will have to do with so many things that we have lived, the pandemic, losing loved ones and all, it's like the emotional blows feel double, triple what they were before. Today the person who resists, who stands up, catches your attention, and before it was a constant.

Look, we are at a stage, we had, I tell you a little today, you know it, to the general public, when we arrived here the team had won a goal two or three rounds ago, it was last, the closest we had at that time was CADU and Central Norte from Salta. The start was hard for us, the team started to improve, started to score, we drew with Gimnasia de Mendoza, we started to get good results, we won three consecutive home games and we prepared ourselves to play a great final with CADU at home three rounds ago, we lost an incredible game, winning five goals below the goal and that was a blow, because we went from passing CADU, to potentially being six points away from other rivals, we lost the final that we had prepared, and we tried to get up as we could, work a lot, train a lot, we went to Temperley and played a great game, the ones we had we didn't take advantage of and we lost in the discount. It's tremendous.

Look, we don't touch the field, they don't lend it to us because they are improving it, we are as much visitors as those who come to play, so it literally hurts us, the other day, when we play on good fields, the team is empowered, we played a great game with Temperley, I was telling you about the game in Mendoza, most of the B national fields are very good, and the truth is that the team we have is a team that will catch your attention, because it is a team of good foot.

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