Josema, get ready, Uruguay needs you

Josema Gimenez he is going for his third World Cup, in Qatar, at the age of just 27. Accumulate 78 matches against the national team of Uruguay, he is in the elite nucleus of 15 footballers who have worn the light blue the most matches in the 120 year history, and scored eight goals with Uruguay. He knew how to debut when he was just 18 years old, at 19 he was already a starter at the back with Diego Godin as captain, and he always intended to wear the captain’s armband when Diego retired.

Now is your time. The celestial defensive fortress was destroyed in Ronald Araujo He was injured 30 seconds into Friday’s friendly against Iran, and the decision to operate on him, barring a miracle, ruled him out of the Cup in Qatar.

Diego GodinAs informally reported, he is closing a special medical treatment in Spain, to try to recover him from a patellar tendinopathy, which has kept him out of the courts since the beginning of August. In fact, he lived with the disease throughout 2022, and was in just 15 games this year.

At the end of this week, he can return to Argentina, to rejoin his club, Velez Sarsfield.. But it’s October, he needs to train, get back into the rhythm, play officially. It seems too much, less than two months before the sky-blue’s World Cup debut on November 24 against South Korea.

No Araújo, and almost no Godín, the only trajectory defender in the Uruguayan national team left is JOsema Gimenez and Sebastian Coates.

Joseph’s time

It is time that Josema, who has always had a strong personality but has several injuries that have conspired against his greatest growth, assumes the leadership of the heavenly background.

The “young boss”, as we once nicknamed him, comes to his third World Cup full of experience despite his relative youth. If Josema has a good World Cup, Uruguay will ensure the defensive strength of the other Cups with his performance, and can hope to produce a good performance in Qatar from the defense.

The hand-to-hand, aerial game, is the legacy of the Atlético de Madrid defender. But you have to have your month “of good health” in half of November and half of December, to be fully in the Middle East. For example, during this FIFA break in September he did not go to Austria with light blue because he was not feeling well.

Josema has always been very important to the Uruguayan national team. At the age of 18, he came as the fourth defender in a call for the qualification date, and out of nowhere, he had to make his debut against Colombia and scored against Tiger of Falcao. And he accomplished more that afternoon at the Centennial of Montevideo.

A year later, in Brazil 2014, due to the injury of the historic captain Diego Lugano on the debut of the World Cup, again on the pitch, at the age of 19. England and Italy are coming, and there is no time to wait for anyone. And again Josema, key.

9 years after his debut in the Uruguayan major, in Qatar he has to bear the responsibility that the opportunity deserves. Uruguay needs it. Joseph, get ready. and that you are full for the Cup !!