University: ‘Coco’ Araujo revealed Jorge Fossati’s reaction to seeing the team train for the first time

sports university He overcame the questionable start to the season at the hands of the Argentine coach Carlos Compagnucci and recently scored three straight wins, including the first against melgar as part of the brief internship Jorge Araujowho passed the job to the Uruguayan DT Jorge Fossati.

Precisely, the triple national champion with the ‘U’ between 1998 and 2000, he spoke of the victories achieved in the last two weeks, indicating that despite the unfavorable results, the team never fell apart and always showed its value, regardless of the coach on duty.

“I see it very well on the emotional side, the group is very strong, I feel that they have a lot of confidence in what they have done and the desire to always win every game. At least that’s the feeling we had when we were able to help against FBC Melgar, we felt that the group was in a hurry and also a little in a hurry to get the three points. It was an important result for the future,” he said in an interview with GOLPERU.

Besides, ‘Coconut’ first mentioned how the arrival of Ditches in Campo Mar, almost right off the plane, to observe the training of who his new managers would be and what impression he had of the first team ‘Meringue’.

“The first contact we had was when he arrived to observe training in the afternoon (March 3), we talked a lot there, he wanted to meet the footballers. We did a training where I was in charge and he watched each of them. He was surprised as he felt the team wanted to turn things around. Since then we have maintained some communication which I hope has served to bring him closer to the players.

The former Cantolao Academy coach is the one who returned the property to Piero Quispe after his replacement at the start of the campaign by Carlos Compagnucci and he had positive words for the 21-year-old, who in the six games he coached last year he started four times and came off the bench in the other two.

“I am fully convinced that with Piero, wherever you put him on the wheel and the bullet always goes through him, he feels like a fish in water. He gathers some players around him and that helps a lot. You shouldn’t just focus on him either, because that puts a weight on him that he knows how to handle well. It shows things that we all know.”

On September 18, 2022, Alianza Lima was crowned champion of the Reserve Tournament beating Ayacucho FC 1-0 and since then the youth teams of the 19 clubs participating in Ligue 1 2023 have had no official activity and for this year tournaments under 21 and pre-reserve (less 18) have been announced, but nothing is planned.

Faced with this situation, Jorge Araujo, coach of the Universitario reserve, criticized the organization and regretted the inactivity of the future hopefuls of the cast ‘Meringue’.

“It’s very difficult for all of us, especially for the boys who are at an age where expectations are very high because they are about to make the leap to the first team. We may be nearly six months away from the end of the previous tournament and still don’t have a start date.. It does not help the growth and development of football. The only way for a player to grow is in a serious and responsible tournament”.