[Sport] From rejected to savior: Colo Colo's karma with Valdivia

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The steering wheel is Gustavo Quinteros' great hope to get out of the crisis. The coach feels, inside, that the club has few weapons to escape from the bottom.

Jorge Valdivia lived the last duels of Colo Colo like one more fan: he observed, harangued, celebrated and suffered. The steering wheel arrived at the Monumental as the last reinforcement of the transfer market, and in a few days it became the great hope of Gustavo Quinteros. Although he was out of the bench, the ‘Mago’ was cited in the two previous games. The pressure is notorious.

As AS learned, the technician visualizes few options on the campus to reverse the situation. The long-suffering victory against Unión Española raised hope, but the global scenario changes little. Injuries hit the coaching staff, and the alternatives have not been up to the task. Valdivia is the great letter of Colo Colo. This has been stated by the coach in the internship. Publicly, he also said it: “We want it soon,” he says.

The coach himself, yes, ensures that he will give him a space for adaptation. He doesn't want to take the risk: “We want to see him well and not put him to play to lose him due to injury. You have to give him the necessary minutes and not abuse so that he does not have muscle problems, ”explains Quinteros. The player, who has suffered multiple physical ailments in the last year, has no margin and his club needs it.

Javier Parraguez, one of the Albas figures in Santa Laura, summarized this Monday what the 'Mago' represents in Colo Colo: "It is too important to have him in our team. He is a player who can give you two or three passes goal per time I see it that way. I have to be waiting for what he will decide, because he is a different player. "

 

 

The radical turn in a year
The funny thing is that the former Red midfielder had left Colo Colo at the end of 2019. On that occasion, Valdivia left with controversy: he accused that Blanco y Negro lied and that he did not give him space to negotiate a renewal. At the Monumental they let one of their referents leave, because Mario Salas and Marcelo Espina did not have him among their plans.

The departure of Valdivia, added to the case of Gonzalo Fierro, Agustín Orión and Jaime Valdés, was the reflection of a policy that sought to rejuvenate the establishment. The 60-40 project left the 'Mago' far from Macul, and with a break that seemed irreversible.

The story did not change that quickly. As the crisis spread, the former Mazatlán player appeared as an option. The campus itself proposed it. The immediate response was negative, especially due to the demand that Valdivia has the 1st Court of First Instance of Santiago. However, faced with the possibility of signing Angelo Araos, Blanco y Negro turned to look at ‘Mago’. And almost as an anecdote, the club puts all its illusion in the experience of a footballer that he discarded a year ago.