Santiago Rodriguez: Bielsa and Messi’s MLS map dream

Santiago Rodrigueza Uruguayan player for the New York City team, spoke on “Football from Karf(Carve Deportiva) about his current situation in the American League, his illusion of reaching the Uruguay national team and the impact of Lionel Messi’s arrival in the American League. MLS.

Rodríguez commented that the MLS “is a very physical league”, and that this aspect could cost Uruguayans who play internationals., although he also said that his countrymen get along well in this sense. He has stated that there is an element that can be tiring of the fact of playing in the American League, And this happens with excursions“Last week we played in Atlanta, which is a two-hour drive, but then we had to travel to Portland, which is on the west coast and it’s about six hours, and we were tired from the game,” he said.

Regarding his sports present, he said that the current situation of the team is not the best, but he feels satisfied with his game on a personal level. “The collective performance, sometimes, is good, other times it’s bad, but we don’t perform well in the table and that costs us a bit. Some players are missing, the coach asked for reinforcements because sometimes some have to play in unusual positions, but I personally I feel so good, I have been doing very well and I hope that one day I will be called up to the Uruguay national team, for testing, and to be on the map of Marcelo Bielsa.“, pointed out.

The footballer recounted a particular case he had to live with in regards to the poor results of New York City, where a group of fans went looking for the players in a kind of “pressure”., which is completely uncommon in American football. They are trying to imitate the bars of Uruguay and Argentina. I don’t know if it’s at Inter or Milan that pubs have gone out lately to talk to their players. And here, since we were doing badly, they wanted to do something similar, in a good way. Nothing happens here, it’s full of cops, if you do something they will lock you up for the rest of your life. We told them with some Argentinian boys that we understood the message they wanted to send us, but that this wasn’t here, that this was in South America, and we told them it wasn’t appropriate.. His North American colleagues are not used to this, reviewing the footballer.

One aspect that has revolutionized the MLS is the arrival of Lionel Messi, who signed with Inter Miami and will play there since July.. “For the league it’s very good, they pay a lot of attention to marketing and anything that involves selling their image to the public will help. For soccer, for Latinos who think differently about soccer, it’s massive because people will watch the league more, the matches will be more attractive because Messi will play and everyone will want to show their performance when he plays.Because he’s the best in the sport.said the former patriot.

Regarding the extent of the American League’s readiness to receive the Argentine, he said that the infrastructure is there, and that it is enough to see the number of major teams from Europe that travel to the United States to carry out their preliminary seasons.

The soccer player was also asked about the eventual arrival of Luis Suarez to accompany his friend Messi to the Miami team, and he replied, “It will be massive.”. “For Uruguay, which is the crowd that interests me the most to see me in the national team, it would be divine. It would change a lot if Suarez came and he would revolutionize the league. On another level for Messi, but I think he is the best 9 in the history of football so it will be amazing.” he commented.