Sebastián Abreu affirms that it will be ‘complex’ for the new Uruguay coach to change a philosophy of 15 years

Former Uruguayan international Sebastián Loco Abreu said this Friday that It will be “complex” for the next coach who reaches the Celeste bench start “completely from scratch” with a group that has a philosophy already ingrained after more than 15 years with Óscar Washington Tabárez as coach.

“Understanding that, like everything in life has an end, one thought that it was going to be through the big door, after the World Cup, as appropriate, and then yes, make way for someone to arrive with another stage of being able to restart” said Abreu, who added that it will be “complex” for someone who will arrive with a “need to win.”

Abreu made these statements about the dismissed coach this Friday in one of the talks organized by the South American Football Confederation (Conmebol) at its Fan Embassy, ​​within the framework of the finals of the South American Cup and the women’s Libertadores, which are disputed this weekend in Montevideo.

The former striker, one of the members of the team that finished fourth in the 2010 World Cup in South Africa and won the 2011 Copa América under Tabárez, He described this day as “special” and “sad”.

“A process is cut and it is like that everything that we had to live is cut, a new stage begins and you get a little melancholy for everything that the Master means in our lives,” said former Spanish soccer player Deportivo de La Coruña and Real Sociedad or the Argentines San Lorenzo and River Plate, among others.

Abreu highlighted the “values” taught by ‘Maestro’ Tabárez to his selected and the satisfaction it generated in the fans to “be able to reinsert the national team into the top positions worldwide.”

In your opinion, thanks to Tabárez, the younger generations “were able to go out to hug each other” and not to continue living on the memories of their parents or grandparents, who told them about past achievements of the national team.

The ex-footballer stressed that many of those who, like him, have chosen to be on a bench when hanging up their boots have followed “the line that the ‘Teacher’ has, which is to help the athlete to improve as a person and as a footballer.”

Tabárez was dismissed this Friday a few days after La Celeste accumulated its fourth consecutive defeat in the South American qualifiers for the Qatar 2022 World Cup and after more than fifteen years at the helm of the South American team.

The 74-year-old ‘Maestro’ took over as head of the Uruguayan national team for the first time in 1988 and left after the 1990 World Cup in Italy was over. Later, he returned on March 8, 2006 to lead a process that lasted 15 years. and eight months. (D)