The team's elimination in the quarterfinals of the 2021 opener left a bad impression not only on the Azzurrema's lineup, but also on the club's history of characters, including Ricardo O. Lavolpe, the outside technician who revealed that the team's style of play makes them very accountable.
The Amerks are not a flashy, powerful team. "I like soccer that wins games, it's a protagonist, it's an adventure. To be aggressive on every line you have to have a good working and conceptual structure. America is a European team, with a fourth line and suddenly a 29th line, but it's not a flashy, powerful team and it's not the kind of team I have to have. "Seeing the soccer, the fact that he is playing for America and, I believe I would put Liverpool aside," the strategist said.
Volpe, who is passionate about ball sports, admits that he doesn't like to watch America play; nonetheless, he's pleased with his numbers and that he's the best team in the league's two tournaments this year.
"If you tell me you're going to put on the TV to watch America, I'm not going to put on the TV because for me, this is not a team that dazzles me; I like teams that take risks and attack.
AMERICAS is strong, many put it in first place, others say it is clear and precise in what it does, it defends itself well and rarely attacks; this is true. If there has to be a winner, it has to be Americas because Americas showed the best regularity and scored the most points, and that's the problem."
The problem at Copa is not knowing how to play league or finals.
"Having a league where you have to know how to win games complicates things because the regularity of the points is one thing and a competitive system with a league is another. It shows me that America doesn't know when it has to win games, make suggestions and take risks. They have a great team, yes, because there are champions anywhere in the world, but it's another system of competition where you have to know how to play and know how to do what you do for 180 minutes, and America doesn't know how to do that.
It's not the first time you've been eliminated, the competition is very tough and tough and you have to be very focused," he said.
Ricardo La Volpe has backed up everything he's done in Santiago - in his first year as captain of the American Eagles. The technician said that his compatriot didn't have an easy task on the bench, but overall, he gave the club something positive.
In L'Aquila and, he doesn't know how to win, if we go, the work is usually good. "He did a great tournament at Congave but he has to get to the final and when he gets to the final he has to beat. For me he's a great team, but when he has to go away to win, when he changes the regular season chips, they don't have the variants and the concepts, it's hard to go out and win, and that happened to Americas and he lost. In Liguilla and Konkaff, he didn't know how to win, and if we go, the job is usually good, but unfortunately that happened to me, I came second, I was a disaster, and luckily I didn't finish eighth. I did a good job."
Finally, the "Moustache" commented on the possible exchange of players in the negotiations and the directives of the Americas. Ricardo Lavorpe concluded: "It's not about that. Everyone is trying to strengthen their team, I'm not interested in T-shirts. What Chivas needs to understand is that he has to work harder on his core strengths because it's hard for him to go shopping and he's not like other teams that go abroad to solve problems." .
