Rafael Santos Borré: “The new coach has a very large group of players for the Colombian national team”

Rafael Santos Borré, a Colombian striker who scored the goal with which the coffee team defeated Saudi Arabia 1-0 in Murcia, has assured that the message left to the new coach who will take charge of the Colombian National Team, the Argentine Néstor Gabriel Lorenzo, is that he has a choice.

“The message we leave with the new coach is that he has a lot of players to choose from and that we can do a lot of good things.””, said the Eintracht attacker, author of the goal with which Colombia beat Saudi Arabia in the friendly played this Sunday in Murcia.

”If we are going to start a new process, the players who go to the national team have to take on the responsibility of leading it, as it is something that has been inherited in the national team generation after generation. It is important that there is not one leader, but that there are many more in all positions within a compact block“, has added.

Santos Borré has not hidden his satisfaction at performing at the top of the attack. “I feel comfortable playing as a center forward, as it is my natural position, but we have great forwards and we have to exploit that wealth”he has stated at the same time that he has valued what he has done against Saudi Arabia.

”The team did a very good job, especially in the first half and interesting things were seen. The main thing was to show ourselves as a solid, strong and aggressive team and we did it collectively for many moments against an opponent that qualified for the World Cup. They saw desire and personality to play”, He commented on the crash.