Cueva: the “gifted player” who only works in the national team | OPINION

I am looking at Christian Cueva while he speaks in his apology video and there is something that refers me to other cases. I could remember more than 10 or 12 soccer names pronouncing the same words and swearing the exact same change.

This episode revives or reinstates a harsh reality about a type of Peruvian player. Discounting that there are A1 professionals, there are also “gifted ballplayers”, a special breed that unbalances on the field and also, if possible, in some bar spree. Cave is everything at once. He is a Manco of origin who became a powerful Uribe. Or better, a crack project with misconduct that became the starting team for Peru, with number 10.

His top moments did not come at the clubs, where he never empathized with a coach who wants to assume himself as his tutor. Neither with any fans or a leadership that defends it particularly. The “prime” of him was the selection where Gareca assumed that the sporting condition of ‘Cholo’ was so valuable that it was worth looking to the side when his off-field disorders arrived.

That Gareca put an end to The Fantastic Four and at the same time with the indiscipline of the national team is a complete lie. It simply happened that Gareca won with Cueva on the field and in the name of the authority that gives the positive results, narratives were already generated that put Gareca as a serious school rector and the rest of the selectors, from Oblitas to Autuori, passing through Markarián, as “permissive lullabies”.

If one reviews Cueva’s Wikipedia in clubs, he will see a very high rotation of teams and he will see that in few places it lasted more than 2 years. This “mobility” is explained by its inability to assume itself under constant rules. It is easier for her to “arrive than to be”, that is, the selection is easier for her because she did not submit it to a control every week and month, but to the FIFA dates and specific calendars. My big question is whether, looking at that, outside the circle of a national team, it could one day work for a club. If I had to bet, I’d say no.