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Jhon Jader Durán is 21 years old, a privileged physicist, a powerful left -handed left and a scoring smell that has already made it shine in the Premier League and the Colombian National Team. But it also drags a conflict history, friction with coaches and attitudes that have raised more than one eyebrow in the dressing rooms that it has stepped on. It is, in other words, one of those Colombian talents that seem to have everything to succeed, except emotional temperance.
His most recent movement in the signing market confirms that something is not doing well. The Nassr of Saudi Arabia paid a millionaire sum for its sports rights, but just a few months later sent it to the Fenerbahçe of Türkiye. Even more striking: the Arab club assumes part of its salary. There are no apparent medical reasons or sports. Everything indicates that, once again, the problem was not with the ball, but with its behavior.
Durán now lands in Istanbul, in one of Türkiye's biggest clubs, and with a technician who does not usually have patience with the undisciplined: José Mourinho. However, the Portuguese is also recognized for knowing how to live together – and, in several cases, to enhance – to players of difficult personalities. He knows when to squeeze and when to protect. His direct style, often controversial, has worked with some of the most temperamental players of modern football.
Zlatan Ibrahimovic, for example, adored him in his stage at Inter. “Mourinho does not lie to you. If you play badly, he tells you to the face; but if you play well, he protects you as if you were his son,” the Swede wrote in his autobiography. Didier Drogba, with whom he formed a historic pair in Chelsea, remembers him as the only coach capable of taking him to the limit without losing him as a player.
He even knew how to manage Mario Balotelli. An anecdote portrays it well: before a second half with Inter, Mourinho expressly asked Balotelli not to commit any nonsense because he had no more available changes. At 10 minutes, the striker was expelled by a meaningless kick. “That day I finished the game without strikers. It was crazy,” Mourinho said later with laughter. But he never marginalized it: he understood that some talents come with use manual.
Will Jon Jader Durán have enough humility to be molded by a coach who will not allow him? Will you take the opportunity to learn under one of the most influential technicians of the century or will end up being another name in the long list of Colombians with crack conditions and gun races?
Hopefully this time the story is different. Talent has it; The environment too. Missing that Durán wants to grow. If Mourinho fails to fit it, hardly someone else can do so.
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