The Colombian National Team continues to make history and will play for the third time in the Copa América final, in which it will face Argentina, the current world champion. The national team defeated Uruguay this Wednesday, July 10, at the Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte, United States, in the semifinals of the continental tournament.
“It was a tough match, Uruguay is an excellent team with a coach I admire a lot. There is a group that gives everything and deserves this. We are going to try as we always do. Colombia always played to win. Argentina is the best in the world, but we are going to try.” the tricolor coach specified.
James has undoubtedly been the star of the Colombian national team at the 2024 Copa América, which is currently taking place in the United States, showing his best footballing form and getting closer to the star that amazed the world in 2014.
The midfielder from Cucuta has even been chosen as the best player of the match in four of the five matches that the tricolor has played in the continental competition. Likewise, Conmebol has repeatedly highlighted him as one of the most important players in the tournament.
As expected, Rodríguez’s good performances have provoked thousands of reactions worldwide. One of the last to speak out was Carlos Antonio Vélez, who said that he does like this James of the Cup.
“James has played an excellent game, well above budget, because he was retired before the cup. This is an absolute credit to Lorenzo, who took him to a psychologist and made him work with him. His effort has also been important, because it is not easy to change certain things that James changed. That is absolutely plausible and recognizable,” he initially indicated.
Then he sentenced: “Taking the data and bringing it into reality, and seeing that he made 14 recoveries in the first three games. I found personal satisfaction, because people thought I hated him and criticized him for screwing them over. His technical condition was never criticized.”
The reunion of James and Lorenzo
Tito Puccetti, through his personal TikTok account, revealed a few days ago a detail that few knew about James Rodríguez and Lorenzo, as he revealed what was the first thing the coach did when he took over as Colombia’s national team coach.
“When Lorenzo was appointed as coach of the Colombian National Team, The first thing he did was ask the Federation for a couple of tickets to go to Doha. There he told him: ‘I want to build the team around you, but for you to be the captain and centre of the team, you cannot play in Qatar. You have to find a way out to European football or to a big team in South America’. said the narrator.
