Gustavo Costas attacked the reality of Bolivian football: “The player here is not trained well, they have no competition”

He is never silent and is sincere. Those who know Gustavo Costas closely point out that and that he is a very frontal coach when saying things to his direction. The former coach of Alianza Lima held a press conference as Bolivia’s coach with a view to the friendlies against Ecuador on June 17 in the US city of New Jersey, and on June 20 he will host Chile in the Bolivian city of Santa Cruz, where attacked soccer in the highland country.

“Everyone says… We are going to the World Cup, we are going to the World Cup, but what do we do to go to the World Cup? The pitches are a disaster, how many Bolivian forwards are there in soccer here? Implying that all the scorers in the local League “are foreigners,” Costas began by saying in a conference.

“Now boys are appearing (about the Bolivian center-backs). It is not Sub 23, it is not thinking about the Pre-Olympic, it is for tomorrow to have them in the First Division ”, insisted the Argentine who was very outraged by the present of Bolivian football.

“We have to improve a lot of things. A lot of things. To criticize, we are all. Isn’t that true?, but what do we do? We want to go to the World Cup, and we have to do something. We don’t have to train, we hardly have a place, we have to be honest, ”he added,

“As I said from day one: I am not going to make an excuse. I told the players, too. ‘You tell them yourselves: Are they trained well?’, because everyone tells you, all the coaches who come here say that the Bolivian player takes time to train, that they don’t train well, that they have no competition. But they do have a thousand excuses, excuses go to hell, we are going to start thinking about trying to improve day by day”, expressed Gustavo Costas, very annoyed.

Bolivia will begin its participation in September for the 2026 World Cup Qualifiers, first in Brazilian territory against Brazil and then will receive the world champion, Argentina in La Paz.