Tijuana striker Fabián Castillo said on Tuesday that along with coach Reinaldo Rueda, the Colombian team will meet again with
football that led her to play the World Cups in Brazil 2014 and Russia 2018.
“With the new coach, the team will gradually find that football that made it qualify for two World Cups and will rediscover that dynamic and fluid football that we lost in the last qualifying rounds,” said the former player from Deportivo Cali and Dallas.
Rueda’s return to the bench of the Colombian senior team was announced on January 14, shortly after he resigned from the Chilean team and following the dismissal of the Portuguese Carlos Queiroz.
Queiroz’s departure was precipitated by two defeats suffered by Colombia in the qualifying rounds of the World Cup in Qatar, first against Uruguay 0-3 in Barranquilla and days later 6-1 against Ecuador in Quito. Fabián Castillo, who played for the U-17 and U-19 teams between 2009 and 2011, said he was confident that Rueda’s return would not only improve his country’s position in the South American qualifiers, the seventh of the ten participants, but also he can dream of a call, if he stands out in Tijuana.
“Of course, this makes me maintain the illusion, to believe that there is a possibility and that is why I have to surrender and improve every day with my team, because the illusion of a call remains alive,” the striker stressed.
Castillo scored his first goal in the current Mexican Clausura tournament in the sixth match and thus helped Tijuana defeat León. “The goal fills me with confidence, because I wanted to do it for a long time, it didn’t happen, even if I had opportunities. Fortunately, it has already happened and I’m very happy because only with that confidence will I be able to achieve that vis “.
Tijuana ranks third with 12 points and remains undefeated with three wins and three draws. “So far things have gone well for us and that gives us confidence to continue to aim for football, not to hide in any stadium and to go out to aim without fear of losing the undefeated,” said the Colombian.
On the seventh day, Tijuana will visit the Tigers next Sunday. “We want to give an authority blow against Tigres, who I think is one of the most difficult rivals to face in the League,” said the player born 28 years ago in Cali.