Bielsa pointed to the absence of Suarez and Cavani

the Marcelo Bielsa press conference There was a point of extreme tension when the technical director of… The Uruguayan national team consulted him regarding the absence of Luis Suarez and Edinson Cavani from the team roster And the fact that he did not hold talks with the footballers, which he said he would do on the day of his official presentation.

“They know I haven’t talked to them and that’s why I’ve been publicly called a liar. The information that was released was that I lied to the Uruguayan citizens because I was going to talk to them, and in fact I did not talk. The Argentine coach expressed his great interest in the players who are considered role models, because reaching that status is not for everyone and it is always deserved. No one is a role model without deserving it, and there are very few who reach that status. , Upset.

Regarding his position, he explained that the reason for not speaking to them is that the players themselves expressed their willingness to participate with the Uruguayan national team, and for this reason he considers them two options.

“When I spoke the first time I said I would talk to them, I would listen to them, and based on what they told me I would give them my opinion. I didn’t know what position they could convey.” “It’s a conversation I wanted to have with them. From the moment I started working, Cavani publicly expressed that his time in the national team was not over, just like Suarez. Because of these two pieces of information, I didn’t need to talk to them, because I read and listened to them,” he explained. From my point of view, they came back. Any conversation was unnecessary, because they became contactable players. “Conversation with them was not necessary.”

In this regard, he explained that his decision, based on that situation, was to call them up or not, as happens with any other football player qualified for the Celeste.

“My duty is to decide who to summon. I don’t want to argue because the player was not called. Of course Suarez and Cavani have a hierarchy that sets them apart. If I explained my reasons for calling or not calling, I would have a question about explaining my decisions. Because every time I make a list I note 42 and quote 22. This is not appropriate in the practice of explaining every decision. “There is still a risk of being called a liar.”

At the conclusion of the conference, he referred to this issue again, and made it clear that he would never retire from Suarez, Cavani, or any player from the national team.

“It is impossible for me to be the one who decides that the cycle of a player like Luis Suarez is over, or for Cavani, or for anyone else. I cannot exclude any player from the national team. I cannot take away from football what little value it has left, which is the fact of playing for nothing, of playing for the love of the shirt. When the world says that it is disgusted by what is happening between the relationship between money and football, the choice of the country seems like a pristine scenario, not yet tainted by money. This is why he suffers from the postponements in his calendar. He stated: “How will I allow myself to tell Suarez or Cavani that they cannot be selected?”