Peru’s coach, Ricardo Gareca, expressed feeling “great disappointment”, “pain” and “bitterness” for having lost the option of going to the World Cup in Qatar 2022 and added that it is not yet time to decide if he will continue leading the Red and White team.
“I have nothing to say about the boys, they gave it all, only (I feel) the logical disappointment of having been left out of such an important event“, declared the Argentine strategist, at a press conference after the playoff game that Australia won on penalties.
Gareca insisted that “the feelings (he has now) are of pain and frustration”, which he shares with the players, seeing that thousands of Peruvian fans came from all over the world to support the Peruvian team in Doha.
“The only thing that overwhelms us is the pain, the bitterness of not having been able to access” the World Cup, added the coach, who led Peru to the World Cup in Russia 2018, after an absence of 36 years.
Gareca affirmed that Australia did a “great tactical job”, but that Peru showed their “best version” at the beginning of extra time, although that meant “a great physical exhaustion” for both teams.
“You need to get in quickly and it cost us, but I didn’t see them tense (the players)”, affirmed the national team. ionador, although he recognized that the fact of having only one final match means that “things have to work out for you” the first time.
For this reason, Gareca pointed out that “reaching a definition of penalties was not what we were looking for”.
Being Asked about the possibility of him continuing in the technical direction of Peru, Gareca replied that “when we get to Lima, it is time to rethink and analyze”, because now he still has the game “in my head that is spinning”.
To make such a decision, the technician stressed that it is necessary to “be calm”, which is why he insisted that “once we arrive in Lima, we will see the situation”.
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