Martín Lasarte revealed the jealousy of La Roja players against Ben Brereton

Without a doubt, the call for Ben Breretton to the Chilean team caused a great surprise for everyone. With the inclusion of him to the Red, the Blackburn Rovers striker managed to score four goals in the era lasarte; Unfortunately, he failed to qualify for the next World Cup in Qatar 2022.

In that sense, the now former coach gave an interview to the international network ESPN and revealed some details about his time as a strategist of the “golden generation”, as the two-time Copa América champions call themselves consecutively.

During the talk, he explained the trident that formed Brereton Díaz together with Alexis Sánchez and Eduardo Vargas (consolidated strikers in the senior team).

“Human beings, or you in the media when someone prominent appears, say ‘who is this, look how he speaks, look how he comments’… I don’t know if it’s envy, but it attracts attention,” Machete began by saying about the case of Breretton.

Following this, he mentioned the jealousy that there was towards the athlete who was born in England. “Ben’s thing was very good, but it generated something in his teammates like ‘wow, now he starts playing, now I don’t play,’ not understanding that they could be complementary, that they could play together or it could be one for the other,” he said. .

‘Machete’, as they call him in Chile, added that “some games are won physically, to finish better in the last 20 minutes, but sometimes it’s hard to get that across.”

Minutes later he specified the characteristics of the forwards. “In the case of Alexis, he understood that he had to change, go down, lend a hand. And we at one point said that he should come from further back and let’s put another partner. In Eduardo’s case, no, because there are other characteristics”, he pointed out.

When asked directly if Vargas was one of those who felt displaced by Ben, he delved into the fact that “Eduardo had other personal problems, the players are not machines and I understood it at some point.”

Regarding Brereton Díaz, he stated that many times “he would raise his hand to be thrown at him and there would be a direct attack, but the players don’t feel that, they don’t know how to do it. And you have to broaden the spectrum, something good was done, but it’s over. Now we have to see other things. It’s not a sin to score goals from a corner or defend a bit”.

MARTIN LASARTE STOPPED BEING TECHNICIAN OF THE CHILEAN NATIONAL TEAM

“I am not afraid of the word failure. It is clear that we did not meet the objective of qualifying for the World Cup, but it does leave us a certain satisfaction that some less relevant objectives were met, ”said the former soccer player.

The Chilean National Professional Football Association (ANFP) announced on April 1 that they had reached an agreement with Lasarte not to renew his contract as head of La Roja after their 0-2 defeat against Uruguay.

“I personally want to thank Martin. We are not going to forget that he arrives in the middle of a pandemic in Chile. There were many obstacles and it remains for a deep analysis of Chilean soccer, ”said the ANFP sports director, Francis Cagigao, at the time.