That Marcos Rojo was injured from his first practice is not entirely crazy. Nor is it a bad sign and you will not have to inquire into witchcraft or call the tarot reader. It is just a possible and foreseeable consequence of always buying at the balance table (none of the reinforcements brought by the new management was active).
Rojo was, until a year or so ago, a player who knew how to be in the elite: Manchester United, even this one that no longer has Sir Alex Ferguson on the bench, is not for everyone. But for some time now, the defender’s career has been more like that of an ex – he barely played a game in more than a year and did not finish it due to injury – and so these situations are not strange. You can’t argue with the quality of Rojo, but It will be necessary to see his evolution, how much it costs him to get in tune with the demands of professional football and not the dive with friends.
Meanwhile, it can be concluded that things that are done wrong are not always going to go well: Boca added two local titles this year and reached the semifinals of the Copa Libertadores while living in that state of self-boycott that usually accompanies its history. Now He tries to put together a team for the dream of each year, which is the Libertadores, but it started the other way around: choosing the players without being clear who will be the leader of the project. There is a series of interns in the club – it is not uncommon in a place where the kinesiologists were on different sides – latent fights without resolution, which make the possibility of success of any endeavor very difficult. Namely:
1) Riquelme no longer trusts Russo, he was disenchanted, although today he is the same coach as a year ago, when he was walking the last steps of his career among South American second-rate clubs. If you ask the Boca soccer leader who identifies him more at this moment, Miguel or the Barros Schelotto twins, he will not hesitate to choose the second option. This does not mean that Guillermo and Gustavo are going to return, although they do not want revenge. The 10 does not like the team’s game, he is not satisfied with the pair of centrals, he does not like Soldano or Wanchope and does not understand why Cardona enters and leaves the team.
2) Russo knows they don’t trust him anymore, but he’s determined to seize this opportunity, probably the last one in a big one, and distributes blame. You think the Council disarmed your equipment with the departure of Pol Fernández, the suspension and pardon of Villa and creating a bad climate in the renovations of Tevez, Zárate and Buffarini. But he is also aware that if he did not win the final against Banfield after the terrible elimination against Santos, he had the exit door open.
3) The campus does not trust Russo or the Council. Bermúdez’s apology to Carlitos for publicly calling him a “former player” didn’t change anything. The relationship does not exist and They question the trio protected by Roman their ways of handling and a certain stance that does not match their past as former players: they now condemn what they defended on the other side of the counter. The DT, meanwhile, is targeted by the footballers since they consider him part of that Council or a victim of it: Anyway, they expected him to take sides or those attacked, and they believe that Miguel did not do it out of gratitude to Riquelme, who summoned him to this second cycle in Boca when no one was expecting him.
4) The relationship between Roman and Ameal – a marriage of convenience – is not going through its best moment either. The president feels that having delegated soccer he was left without a role, and a few hours ago he took the presentation of Rojo almost by storm, a place until now reserved for the Council. The gossips say that he even ordered the microphone to be removed from Chelo Delgado, who also participated in the event. Meanwhile, from the Council they reproach him for having uploaded some of his field horses, in the case of the economic audit, that he has let them speak against the previous management claiming the absence of 85 million dollars and that later the balance has been approved with a giant surplus.
5) Ameal has another open front with the rest of the CD, who believes that he made all the expense to win the elections and that Riquelme takes the praise, condemning them to ostracism.
Missing, still missing to start the Copa Libertadores. Not even all the main draw qualifiers are there. There are rivals, therefore, who are not yet known. However, Boca does not need to know who it is, it may not be of interest either. It is clear that the main enemy is inside.
