Peru team: Ricardo Gareca rules out generational succession issues and pressure if he doesn’t go to 2026 World Cup

There Peruvian team He faced a new process led by Juan Reynoso, who took over in mid-2022 and will be tasked with leading the team to fight for qualification for the 2026 World Cup. ‘On your mind’ will keep the base left by Ricardo Gareca, even if little by little it will integrate our faces. In this sense, the Argentinian DT has ruled out that his successor will have problems in terms of generational change and that the weight of attending a World Cup event will be a thing of the past.

“I think Peru was adapting to the problems they had, because there were constantly countless problems. The most important thing for Peru was that it was being fixed and all the players were reacting. I don’t think it’s a problem in a specific position that Peru has a problembecause he always tried to find the solution and he always managed to replace the important players he had”, commented the ‘Tiger’ in an interview for Trade.

And it is that the base of footballers who worked on the orders of the ‘Lean’ approaching 30 years. Renato Tapia, Pedro Gallese, Edison Flores, Miguel Trauco, Gianluca Lapadula, Christian Cueva, André Carrillo and others have ages that will allow them to perform another qualification process and arrive conditioned to the next one.

However, being a four-year-old with multiple games makes one think about who their replacements would be in the event of penalties or injuries. The last Peruvian U-20 team did not leave good feelings and there were hardly any recoverable values. Although, as happened at the time of Ricardo Gareca, several of the mentioned players started in the team when they were very young. Bryan Reyna, Percy Liza, Matías Succar and other names are aiming to be chosen to take over, however, Juan Reynoso will see in the coming months.

On another side, Ricardo Gareca let us see that the weight of the ‘Red and white’ so as not to go to a World Cup, he was forgotten. This after his team got the quota of Russia 2018 after 36 years of absence. For this reason, even if he considers that he has every chance to make it to the meeting in 2026, the pressure he had at the time has already disappeared.

“I think in Peru the most important thing has already happened, which is to take off the 36-year-old’s backpack without going to the World Cup. And that was a very big burden for everyone. world. Peru has every chance of qualifying for the next World Cup,” he said.

Indeed, there have been many failures throughout 36 years of not being able to reach the World Cup. Between defeats and incidents of indiscipline, they did the Peruvian team was, on several occasions, among the last places of the South American Qualifiers. The landscape changed with the ‘Tiger’with great prowess in the meantime and with a ranking (2018) and a draft elimination (2022).

Precisely, the current strategist of Vélez Sarsfield ruled on the alignment of Peru which formed before Australia during the last play-off and whether he chose the players on the substitutes’ bench well, considering that Gabriel Costa, Jairo Concha, Christian Ramos and Raziel García (Yoshimar Yotún injured) were not taken into account due to a technical decision.

“In a field of guesswork, you can think of anything that can happen in the game. We did an analysis and within that anyone can be right. That’s what we decided, what we saw at that time. We believe that the team did not lose their chance for this very reason, we did not put in a good performance, but in any case the team, throughout the 120 minutes, had gaps where they recovered, especially in the last extra time. It was an even match where he ended up losing on penalties. But I don’t think it’s due to certain absences. I think it was overall a very tough game in fairly unfavorable circumstances,” he said.