Isabella Echeverri responds to Colombian women’s national team coach: ‘It’s the first time she’s said my name in 2 years’

January 21 Isabelle Echeverri announced his retirement from professional activity, thus culminating a career that has taken him through football in the United States, Spain and Mexico, in addition to defending the colors of the Colombia women’s team at the 2015 World Cup in France, the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro in 2016 and the Pan American Games in Lima in 2019, in which they won the gold medal.

Throughout her career, and especially from 2019 when complaints from various independent media about corruption within the women’s team were made public, Echeverri has become one of the critical voices on how the Federation dealt with topics such as daily allowances or prizes for players. . This fact led her to be marginalized from calls with Natalia Gaitán, Vanessa Córdoba, Daniela Montoya, Yoreli Rincón there Melissa Ortiz, who also filed similar complaints during those years. Despite the fact that the reasons given by the national coach Nelson Abbey alludes to technical decisions, it was widely rumored with the possibility that it was a veto by the Colombian Football Federation.

A few days after announcing her retirement, the midfielder who won in Seville in Spain reacted to statements by Abadía on Saturday January 25 during an interview with VBar of snail radio. There, the national coach expressed his joy and satisfaction at the arrival of Linda Caicedo Al real Madridas well as for the performance of the Colombian women’s national team in the preparatory matches against Mexico there Nigeria in the direction of Women’s World Cup in Australia and New Zealand 2023.

Asked about his feelings regarding the retirement of Echeverry, the player he was responsible for when Colombia won the gold medal at the 2019 Pan American Games, Abadía replied:

“She came with me from much further away (from the Pan American Games). Sometimes these are situations that arise over time, from what has been his transfer to professional football. Perhaps the wounds in the moments he had, shining, need to be remembered. She was an important player for our national team at the time when she had important levels of play to be called on each call. Now there is a significant renewal of all our players and we will grow (…) the most important thing is that we have players who replace those players who were very important for the national team “

On his Twitter account, Echeverri responded to Abadía’s statements:

“I think it’s the first time he says my name in 2 years and I feel like it’s only because he can’t summon me anymore. I hope that’s the opinion of other players who have deserved at least one opportunity in the national team ”

The publication received support from his followers, urging him to prepare to take on the technical leadership of the women’s team in the future, as revenge for what has happened now. In turn, they criticized the treatment Abadía gave to the complaints of Echeverri and all the players from previous years.

Recall that Isabella Echeverri herself had already raised the issue with some bitterness when she announced her retirement from the courts:

“All the complaints cost me my position in the national team, I had moments of very high performance and they did not call me; Unfortunately, I am banned from the national team, but I am not not resentful, and I have no regrets either”