Héctor Vargas, the Argentine marathon coach, is used to facing challenges, he likes them, and now that he will face Portland Timbers from MLS in the Optimal Pass of Champions Concacaf, I feel I can catch the competition.
The Argentine already faced the Oregon team when he directed Olympics in 2015 ringing the bell and eliminating it. He believes that now, when the duels turn back and forth, the possibilities multiply and they will seek to take advantage of him, benefiting from a good advantage in San Pedro Sula.
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What do you know about Portland: “One who knows what Concacaf is like and these types of tournaments, when I play an MLS team there are possibilities for advancement, I already faced Olimpia five years ago and eliminated them from Concacaf with high level players like Diego Valeri , “La Gata” Fernández who came from Estudiantes, Sebastián Urruti. It’s different to face them in competition (MLS starts on April 17), but there is always a doubt in its operation, it always happens in teams to try to move on to the next round “.
Close the visit key: “The advantage that can be taken is that they are still in a process of softening, because they are inactive, you have to take advantage of it. Always in these tournament starts, when it’s your MLS club’s turn, there are more opportunities to advance. They have a good budget and in the middle of the tournament it is hard to beat them. I already had to play against Vancouver, Seattle and Portland with Olimpia and I won those three matches in the first round at home, and against Portland I went to the next round.
Advance key: “The advantage of playing at home. We play at home in April, there is a difference with the change of weather, it is still cold there, here we are at Easter and very hot. In short, when you play a round trip there is always little chance.
Transfers by Emilio and Crisanto: “They will give me experience, there are players who have championships, I had to play a recent local final with seven players who had never played a final before, they were young, I had an 18-year-old back. Both Emilio and Wilmer will bring experience to my team. I have a young team and that’s why I’m looking for experienced players to have a compact team. Now Banegas and Jhonson have left and with their experience, the competition will have other possibilities “.
Entries to compete at Concacaf: “He was not thinking about this tournament, but due to the fact that the team that had them did not need them. We had Wilmer Crisanto in Victoria and, coincidentally, we have Luis Vega, who will definitely be in the Pre-Olympic with the Under-23s and indeed the arrival of the two was because they were eliminated from their team and I come to a club to compete. They chose the Marathon because they want to compete and represent the country. They wanted to come and they will bring us the experience “.