James Rodríguez during training with the Colombian team in Barranquilla.
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“Change your thoughts and you will change your world”
Norman Vincent Peale
After qualifying for the World Cup, the Colombian team begins the World Cup path and, taking advantage of the FIFA dates, will play friendly matches initially against Mexico and Canada.
When faced with obstacles, people have different responses. There are those who say “I can't”, those who say “I don't think I can”, those who say “I can” and those who say “how can I?”.
Surely the managers and the coaching staff, in this preparatory stage for the World Cup, will be making their own self-evaluation regarding the overall performance of the team in the qualifying phase: what they did very well, what they did well, what they must improve very well and what they must improve well. All this to make a World Cup not only participatory, but to advance as much as possible, because there are human resources to set high goals. They will take advantage of the contact now with the players to do the same: self-evaluation.
Friendly matches, in general, are to continue to unite the team interpersonally, observe some players who have not been in the process or have been very little, improve some tactical aspects and greatly strengthen the mental part with a view to the World Cup.
Colombia, for these matches against Mexico and Canada, maintained a good team base: Luis Díaz, David Ospina, James Rodríguez, among others. He returned to Johan Carbonero, Álvaro Montero and approached for the first time the good player Kevin Serna, with a good presence in Brazilian football and with the mentality of keeping a place, as striker Luis Suárez has been doing very well. Let's hope it's like that too.
There is still a way to go until the World Cup, and the ideal time will come to form the final roster, because we do not know the inconveniences that life brings – as in football – to making final decisions. Well, it's not just about arriving… it's about believing, growing, and walking together towards what has not yet been written.
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