“ANDThe climate against the coach is tense,” they tell MARCA from Uruguay an authorized source. And all just a few hours before facing a Spain that they must beat if La Celeste does not want to depend, with three points if it is tied, of the results of other groups (it will be very difficult to get into the next round with three points).
The doubts of Uruguayan players against Marcelo Bielsa are not new. They come from behind (there were already problems with Agustín Canobbio and with Luis Suárez in the past), but could have been blown up these days with an alleged mutiny revealed by ‘Las Voces del Fútbol’ from ‘El Espectador Deportes’, half Uruguayan. Some heavyweights on the team (Valverde, Ugarte, goalkeeper Rochet and Bentancur) They would have complained about the tough training sessions in this World Cup (after a grueling season) and the long video sessions that Bielsa subjects the squad to. It is strange that in that meeting Josema Giménez, Uruguay’s first captain and a player of great importance among his teammates, did not raise his voice. The red and white, due to being injured, has not yet played a single minute, just like the Barcelona player Ronald Araujo, who was injured training under the orders of ‘Loco’.
MARCA has not confirmed this mutiny as is, but the strange atmosphere between players and coach does exist in the previous hours to this decisive match. The problems already existed previously with Luis Suárez, who resigned from La Celeste de Bielsa after the 2024 Copa América, and with the aforementioned Canobbio, whom he has recovered for this World Cup, by the way. Also There was noise with the World Cup absence of Nahithan Nández, veteran player very loved among his teammates.
Let us remember that Bielsa is a coach (known in the world of football) who physically and tactically squeezes his players and that, with the load of games that the players bring in the European season, is sometimes not to their liking, not because of a whim but because of fatigue and the damage that this can cause them when it comes to performing on the court.
Whether there was a mutiny or not, Things in Uruguay are rare. But… don’t let La Roja get complacent… because La Celeste is a warrior team.