Uruguay negotiated in Madrid for Professor Ortega

They secretly left Tuesday afternoon from Carrasco International Airport in Montevideo, without most of the Uruguayan press noticing the flight. Eduardo Ache and Matias Perez (“the oldest and the youngest”, according to another member of the Executive Committee of the Uruguayan Football Association), they traveled to Spain with a specific mission: start contacts with the aim of having Profe Ortega, the physical trainer of Atlético de Madrid as a member of the Celeste coaching staff at the next Qatar Cup 2022.

Ortega, with special authorization from the mattresses, has been part of the Uruguayan team in the last four games of the South American Qualifiers, since the arrival of Diego Alonso as coach. His work regimen is sui generis: like so -called footballers, he traveled primarily to South America on two FIFA dates in February and March.

The Profe injected sky blue into his special character, and was crucial for Uruguay’s lift to the final stage, with four wins in four games, and direct qualification for the World Cup.

After the Qualifiers, the “carriage is back to being a pumpkin”. The spell of being with his country’s team by special authorization from Atlético de Madrid has been revoked, and now everything has to be re-discussed.

Eduardo Ache is a veteran Uruguayan leader, several times president of Montevideo National. Professor Ortega stressed a few weeks ago the “chemistry” that emerged between the two, despite the short time they had been able to share. Maybe because of that “chemistry” Ache volunteered to travel to Madrid to find formulas that would allow Ortega to fulfill his dream of being part of a World Cup.

Ache traveled accompanied by Matías Pérez, a young ex-soccer player, and now a leader, from the statutory reform to the Uruguayan Football Association in 2018, which established the presence of representation of football players in the direction of Uruguayan soccer.

Ache and Pérez have been in Madrid since Wednesday, but according to sources consulted by the MD, on Friday they had not yet arranged a meeting with Gil Marin, CEO of Atletico. It is assumed that they spoke to Professor Ortega, but did not disclose the concrete results.

The game of desire, will, power, and ability to negotiate, using the axes of Teachers Ortega, Cholo Simeone and Gil Marín, weighed by the leaders of the Uruguayan Federation, he would say, certainly not in these days, but in the coming weeks, whether the mattress physical trainer will be Uruguay’s PF at the World Cup.