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The new generations do not know the meaning of the name of Francois Maturanaa man who is part of the foundations of the history of coffee football, to which he gave an identity, greatness and recognition that made the whole world talk about Colombia at the end of the 80s.
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Dentist by profession, graduated with honors from the University of Antioquia, Above life and fate made him opt for his other love, football, thanks to the encouragement of Uruguayan coach Aníbal Hand Ruiz to take the reins of Once Caldas in mid-1986, as stated in the book Maturana with Jose Clopatopsky.
“Pacho. Don’t be afraid of your youth, these are the matches that will make you live the experience and you can’t wait. The manager’s life is like a football game in which if you can score the goal in the first minute, you don’t have to wait until 80 minutes have passed to define the game”
And I add Hand Ruiz: “Go for Once Caldas and you learn, but remember, your stay in this team is a stage because very quickly you have to come and lead the Nacional and then the Colombian team. Put that in your head. And when in doubt, pick up the phone, I’m here to help.
these words of Hand They were like a premonition for Francisco Maturana who had an exceptional campaign with the albos in the domestic standings rented to the final. In 1987, Above He was already the coach of Atlético Nacional, in which the era of pure criollos began, with which he reached the first Copa Libertadores for Colombia in 1989.
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Subsequently, the Chocoano assumed the technical direction of the Colombian team, which after 28 years qualified for a World Cup after defeating Israel in the playoffs. In Italy 90, the Tricolor They qualified for the round of 16, having finished third in the group that faced Yugoslavia, the United Arab Emirates and Germany.
The architect of the only Copa América that the Colombian team has in its showcase spoke to GlobeLiveMedia various topics related to his life and coaching career.
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francisco Above Maturana has been in charge of youth football at Atlético Nacional since mid-2021. “My thing is simply an accompaniment where I go home and I come back better, because almost all of us sometimes leave home, but we come back and if we come back it’s much more important, and my years, my experiences, my experience, makes me better to go back home, because I’ve grown as a player, as a person and as a coach, and then I find something there that puts me in tune”.
In reference to the statements of Barranquilla Junior football player Juan Fernando Quintero, who assured that Colombian football was losing the spectacle offered by the number one player ‘ten’Maturana said:
“Before the number ’10’ was the beginning of football, now the football player has already become this universal player, and the universal player is the one who can carry out different situations or different tasks, so when you have a good team , good football starts with any player, we are not going to wait for it to start when we give it to ’10’, because there is a point scorer who knows how to play, good football starts there. ‘there’s a goalkeeper who has a vision, who has leadership, that’s where the power of football begins, so the cool thing about football is that everyone is right and football is something where everyone walks in and talks and nothing happens”.
On the other hand, the former coach of Peru and Costa Rica He spoke of the treatment he receives from a sector of the Colombian press that does not take into account his sporting achievements.
“Here is my story, you hear any of these young journalists talking to them: ‘Maturana is a disaster’, they don’t know the story and when you know the story, you can talk about it. Now what do these bald guys remember from Maturana? They fired him from Once Caldas at a time when I came to try to do a project that they had seduced that I was going to do, but the same people who say that Maturana was fired from Caldas They don’t know that in America, the most important tournament for national teams is the Copa América and Maturana won it, the most important tournament for clubs is the Copa Libertadores and Maturana won it”.