03/03/2020 - 16:49
- Clarín.com
- sports
It is convenient to clarify first of all: the title of this article points more to a journalistic search to catch the reader than to a direct comparison between the two protagonists. Under this qualification, there are a number of issues worth highlighting from Ricardo Zielinski, a coach who on Saturday will be one of the protagonists of the definition of the Super League. And the same one that will be a couple of steps from Marcelo Gallardo, the most praised colleague for the soccer chair.
“In Argentina there are few who are in a dominant position, managing wealth. It happens in society and happens in football. There are many more who manage poverty, "Zielinski planted in an interview published by this newspaper in July 2019.
"What I do not understand - he continued - is how they do not realize that the merits are totally different depending on where we started from. It is not the same to finish fifth in Atlético Tucumán, with a very limited budget and from the Interior, that leaving Fifths with a large team and a 50-fold better economy, it cannot be that we have the same obligations as a team that spends 20 times more, regardless of whether we set ourselves challenges, of course, but we must sell, we must say a lot of things ... And there are technicians who know how to sell well. For me, the effort is valued much more according to where you come from. ”
The Atlético Tucumán squad that played the Argentina Cup final and lost to River in 2017. (Clarín)
And where does the Russian come from? Growing up in the south of Buenos Aires. That his first transfer - as a youth from San Telmo to Argentino de Quilmes - has been in exchange for an old bus line 148. And jogging ascent as a player and as a coach.
Before sitting on the bank of Atlético Tucumán, Zielinski, who is only 60 years old by Julio Falcioni and Miguel Russo, both with 63, met football suburbs on the banks of Atlanta, San Telmo, Deportivo Morón, San Martín de San Juan, Defense and Justice, All Boys, Juventud Antoniana de Salta, El Porvenir, Temperley, Ben Hur de Rafaela, Chacarita and Patronato.
The Russian also comes from attending a bar in Lanús and putting some soccer fields in case professional football ejected him from the system. Bittersweet step by the Racing Bank. And to make history in Belgrano de Córdoba.
He led 457 games in 16 different teams, but there is one that inevitably emerges in the previous Saturday's clash against River. And that game, the famous 2015 Promotion that Belgrano won the giant to send to the B, the Russian says it was magnified. “There is always morbidity, but I try not to feed it. The only thing we did with Belgrano was to win a match to achieve our goal, without harming anyone. "
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Then, while the goal of Guillermo Farré in the Monumental is repeated on television screens followed by the evicted faces of Jota Jota López or the Pavone Tank , it is convenient to point to the merits of Zielinski in Atlético Tucumán.
The Russian debuted at the bank of the Dean on June 26, 2017 and in December of that same year he already had a first determining crossing against River. It was the final of the Argentine Cup that Gallardo won 2-1 with goals from Scocco and Nacho Fernández. The Pulga Rodríguez put the partial tie. Only with this part of the form is enough to make a difference: the two scorers of River are still on the squad while the Simoqueño striker now plays in Colon.
That night in Mendoza, Atlético Tucumán aligned Alejandro Sánchez; Acosta, Cabral, Rafael García, Villagra; Aliendro, Grahl; Barbona, Fabio Alvarez, Gervasio Núñez; Luis Rodriguez If you compare with the team that lost Saturday in La Plata against Gymnastics only repeat 2 of 11: Yonathan Cabral and Guillermo Acosta.
El Pulga Rodríguez, captain and figure that Zielinski lost in Atlético Tucumán in the beginning of 2019. REUTERS
A year later, Atlético Tucumán reached the quarterfinals of the Copa Libetadores. With different players. With Pichi Mercier patrolling the midfield, with Leandro Díaz in the attack front, with Lucchetti consolidated in the goal, with Tito Noir making one of the lanes and Bruno Bianchi as the first central marker. The team of the Russian beat Atlético Nacional de Medellín in the round of 16 and Gremio stopped it in the quarterfinals.
At the beginning of 2019, Pulga Rodríguez moved to Colón. Halfway through the year, after reaching the semi-final of the Super League Cup (won by Tigre, the champion), Atlético Tucumán lost two other headlines: Aliendro followed in the footsteps of Luis Miguel and arranged in the Sabalero and David Barbona signed in Racing.
The Russian again had to adapt to poverty. Cristian Erbes and Ariel Rojas arrived to reinforce the midfield, the Correntino Marcelo Ortiz took over the right back, Luciano Fabián Monzón went from minor to major by the other band, Gonzalo Castellani knew how to win minutes and Lucas Melano was finding his place in the team.
Ismael Blanco and David Barbona, two other valuable pieces that are no longer in the Dean. (Rodrigo Magna / Télam)
At the start of 2020 there were more changes with a barter of central markers: Bruno Bianchi went to Colon and Guillermo Ortiz arrived at Atlético.
Zielinski's team beat The Strongest in the first phase of the Libertadores with the saves of Laucha Lucchetti (captain and symbol at 41) in the penalties and in the second phase could not in the same instance against the DIM. Thus, it was at the gates of the group that integrates Boca but got into the South American Cup for being one of the eliminated with better performance.
A last antecedent. Less than a year ago, on May 11, 2019, Atlético Tucumán had a great taste against River: he won 3-0 for the quarterfinals of the Super League Cup and, despite a rematch suffered in the Monumental, he took it out of the competition.
That magical night on the Dean's court, the Russian team was: Lucchetti; San Román, Lamas, Sbuttoni, Abero; Barbona, Laws, Aliendro, Gervasio Núñez; Leandro Díaz and Toledo. Mercier, Ramiro Carrera and Mauro Matos entered. Only 4 (Lucchetti, Díaz, Toledo and Carrera) of the 14 remain on campus.
Rodrigo Aliendro, a flyer that went from Atlético Tucumán to Colón. EFE
In front, River formed: Armani; Mayada, Robert Rojas, Pinola, Angileri; Enzo Pérez, Zuculini, Exequiel Palacios, Nacho Fernández; I erased and Pratto. Matías Suárez and Nicolás De la Cruz entered. Casco, a fixed in the current formation, and Ponzio stayed in the bank.
“This is a game, with strategies. And it's easy to talk if you have the width of swords, ”Zielinski expanded with an analogy of the trick in hand-to-hand with Clarin. But if you have a 3 you have to think about it. Here there is much discourse from abundance. But I would like to see many of those who talk about abundance how they move when they don't have it. I try to dignify football by telling the truth. I know you can't play the same way with any player. And if you give me Messi and Barcelona I will play in one way, and if you give me a humble team I will have to play in another. If not, it would be a fool. ”
