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Although that Olympics stained the game with too many fouls and one of them caused the fibula to rupture Antonio Lopez, Pedro Troglio, a strategist for the Honduran team, pointed out that they never prepared for the game to go out and hit American players.
” injury (of López) It is an accident, but at no time is a match ready, even in the first half something similar happened to one of our players and, fortunately, there was no injury. Mistakes are given because America plays very fast and you’re late, nothing more, “the strategist told a news conference.
About the victory he noted that his team showed personality to face the tie with the most winning team in CONCACAF, such as América
“Sense great happiness for what they did players, it is difficult to compete at certain levels, but I got rid of the result and we fight and the team excites me more and more ”.
It affected them for the first time in Honduras
For the defender, Johnny Leveron, the key to removal before America falls in the last minutes of the first half of the Ida Game in Tegucigalpa, a period in which the two goals with which America advanced in the next round fell.
“I knew we weren’t favorites, but I knew we would fight and it’s a shame for those five minutes from there, because they’re the ones taking us out of the glass, “he said.
“Sad for the final result that takes us out of the tournament, but we are proud because a good job was done against a difficult rival at home and that is why we cherish the victory ”.