Penarol They defeated Botafogo 3-1 in the second leg semi-final of the Copa Libertadores, playing a very good match, although they were left out of the final after having lost 5-0 in the first leg played in Rio de Janeiro last week. In this victory, Washington Aguerre was sent off when the first half ended, in an unusual way.
In that context, he complicated his teammates and in turn, it is not the first time that he has committed an outburst of this nature.
Fernando Álvez, multi-champion goalkeeper with Peñarol said that “Washington Aguerre has to do therapy or get help from professionals”
Fernando Álvez was a multi-time champion as Peñarol’s goalkeeper and is remembered as the last great goal scorer the club had. At the same time, he played in two World Cups with the Uruguayan team, in Mexico 86 and Italy 90, and won the 1995 Copa América.
Álvez gave his opinion on this moment for Peñarol and, above all, on the unusual expulsion of Washington Aguerre against Botafogo.
“It was a good Libertadores thinking about how the Uruguayan teams were doing lately and that Peñarol was able to maintain the team. After the victory with Flamengo, which although it was very important, A climate of general euphoria was created that was too much for what could come,” Álvez began saying on Sport 890.
And he continued: “Peñarol has to hold on tooth and nail to the Uruguayan Championship, “It has all the advantages, the Annual Table, the Apertura, it is first in the Clausura and it is what it has to do because the last year and a half has been complicated.”
Regarding the situation experienced by Washington Aguerre, the former Aurinegro and national team goalkeeper, he was very clear with his opinion.
“I know Washi (Aguerre) well, I trained him in Miramar, I know his conditions, there is a mixture of affection and sometimes I get overheated when he does these things. What would I have said to him? Why don’t you go a little… (laughs). But it is not an evil issue. I think he has those moments that he doesn’t think about. I’m sure he must have a regret that makes him want to kill himself. But there are times when you must know how to control your emotions to do the best. That’s when he fails, because it’s not a matter of evil or anything, because he’s an exceptional guy. What happens is that these things come to him, he does them to you and I imagine how he must be at this moment. That it was a mistake, it was a mistake”, express.
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And he added: “This way you greatly compromise everyone’s work. It was like a bucket of cold water. It was a tremendous mistake. The issue is how do you correct it now. There are things about people’s character that sometimes have to be addressed by a professional. Why not? Suddenly he has to do some therapy in that sense or help himself with professionals to try to reduce those moments that come in and he has potholes in which he becomes blinded in his reactions and he has to learn to control them. “An elite player has to control those emotions in 99% of the cases.”
For Álvez, “those reactions destroy all the conditions he has as a footballer. If you correct those things you are in a privileged position.”
