Lettuce spoke at the press conference prior to the meeting of the Albirroja against Canarinha at the Neo Chemistry Arena stadium in São Paulo and recalled Argentine writer to explain his landing in the Guaraní team.
Paraguay's team comes from a great triumph against Uruguay And he knows that during his visit to Brazil for the 16th of the South American qualifiers he could seal his passage to the 2026 World Cup, a meeting that will take place at the Neo Chemistry Arena Stadium in São Paulo.
On the eve of his confrontation to Carlo Ancelotti, Gustavo Alfaro spoke made clear that He feels more than comfortable in Guaraní lands and was encouraged to use a Julio Cortázar appointment To illustrate the concept.
“After my experience in the mouth, I needed something like Ecuador And maybe Ecuador was needing something like minethat's why it flowed into the way it flowed. I felt so fully because the experiences were very strong, and the same thing happens to me here. I was needing a place like this. It was like in the book 'Rayuela' of Cortázar that 'they were not looking, but they were to meet'in that story that makes a book that can be read in different ways “he explained.
Alfaro quoted Cortázar before Paraguay's visit to Brazil: “They walked without looking, but they were to meet”
Lettuce also deepened about the complex moment in which he took the reins of the Paraguayan team, which came from a lousy performance in the Copa América 2024 and the need to take those negative experiences to strengthen himself: “Here I had a totally different process, but with A selection that was injured, a selection that came more associated with disappointments, to blows and without flavors than at pleasant moments. Then I understood that the pain was the starting point, that the scars were the starting point. I have touched me in my life that I do well, regulate or bad “he said.
Finally, the native of Rafaela did not shrink before the giants of the continent and reiterated the need to face uncomfortable proposals to unlock the potential of the team: “What things are missing? These are questions to be askedand they are questions that are sometimes uncomfortable. ”
“These are questions that we want to improve the performance of our football we have to do and that does not mean changing our idiosyncrasythat is a totally different thing. I say how we with what we are can be better than we are. How and in what area we want to improve. It's about playing as Paraguay plays, now that Paraguay is prepared to conquer that place he historically had “Rounded the former and Quilmes before facing the mythical Italian coach for the first time in his career, in what will be the debut of former Madrid's Re-Real against Brazilian fans.
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