Is good to know that you, people, liked the last post theme. The Chatón Enríquez phenomenon will be a huge theme to talk of in the next years of the development of Mexican soccer. It is difficult to gain recognition to one of the best players in a tournament, it is more to gain it in the World Cup, and it is even more difficult to gain recognition as a central defender midfielder. If the development of Chaton is the right one, he will be in an important team of Europe very soon.
The theme for today’s post is the mediocrity of the Federación Mexicana de Fútbol (FMF). Yesterday I entered to my twitter account and I saw a question from Televisa Deportes Network (TDN) directed to people. Is it right the veto of Edson Rivera from the national team, because he went to the European soccer? When I saw this, my first reaction was: ‘This can’t me a real question, it should be a joke’. But, it wasn’t a joke, it was really happening.
For general knowledge, Edson Rivera is a young soccer player that used to play for Atlas. He played this last U-20 World Cup, having a very good role as a player. Rivera scored three goals for Mexico in this tournament, and although he wasn’t one of the best named players of the national team, he called the attention with his goals.
Now, returning to the theme, Rivera played the U-20 World Cup without being in any team. Atlas, instead trying to look for a contract renovation, they didn’t worry about it and let Rivera as a free agent (El Informador). Now that Rivera found a team in Europe, a Portuguese team named Sporting Braga, Atlas requires to be paid because they contributed to Rivera’s development as a soccer player. I completely agree that they formed Rivera as a player, but you cannot let a player with this potential stay without contract, even if you were in negotiations with the player, the directive should insist in signing Rivera as fast as possible. And now that he is leaving the Mexican soccer looking for a good development in Europe, Atlas asks for his veto from the national team, they should be ashamed. How is it possible to ask for such thing, Rivera had rights that let him to look for another team because he was a free agent, he wasn’t compromised with Atlas or any team, so he went himself to Portugal, and despite all the effort he did at finding a team and signing with it, the great president of Atlas dares to reclaim. What great news for Rivera!
So, answering the question, it is NOT right the veto of Rivera from the national team. And, if there is even a possibility of getting Rivera out of the national team, we will be witnessing a mediocre decision of a mediocre Mexican Football Federation (FMF).
Here are two of the three goals Rivera scored in the U-20 World Cup (Second and third goals from Mexico):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gc_nTTvD-mw
Works Cited:
"Edson Rivera Dará Su Versión :: El Informador." El Informador :: Noticias De Jalisco, México, Deportes & Entretenimiento. Web. 01 Sept. 2011.
Hi Goyo, to start, let me congratulate you for your blog. It is interesting in relation with football and the possible controversy that it causes. Also, the stadium’s picture denotes more your topic, which is great. Well, let me begin talking about your post.
ResponderEliminarFirst, let me tell you that I agree with you in the fact that the Mexican Football Federation is mediocre. Actually, I think that many of the organizations here in Mexico are mediocre. What Atlas did to this guy is selfish because they caused that the Mexican Football Federation excluded him from the national team just because he wants to continue his development in Europe. This reminds me the perception that I have about our society. This perception establishes that many Mexicans will never support the success of the others and they will try to destroy that success as soon as possible. I think that something similar is happening to Rivera because Atlas doesn’t want him to be successful in Europe and the only way to stop him from traveling to Europe, is excluding him from the national team.
On the other hand, we also need to consider that Rivera has the talent and can develop it in Europe if he wants. Rivera doesn’t need from the national team to develop his talent. Actually, if he is going to be in Europe, he will learn a lot of things there. Moreover, we need to consider the fact that because of this type of things, our national teams are not as good as we want. These banal issues, where soccer teams only see for their own benefits, without being empathic with others, provoke the mediocrity of our teams. Well, that is my opinion.
I liked the post because it expresses some human behavior so that, I will continue checking your blog.
Eduardo Serrano Llamas a00511604
ResponderEliminarThe Edson Rivera case is a very disappointing news from how the Mexicans always try to mess up with other people success. Edson Rivera deserves to play in an prestigious team because he won the world cup. When the club from Portugal Braga wanted to hire him for its team and Edson realize that he didn’t have an actual contract with the club Atlas, he just grabbed his things and go with the team that really offer him a real contract. When the Mexican club found out that this young boy sign with an important club from Portugal they got angry and their argument was that he didn’t told the club that he was signing for another team. The real reason why they got angry and everybody knows is that they didn’t receive any money for the transaction and that was really the main point why they got mad. Atlas wants to mess up with this young player success and its going to do everything for that this player won’t be allow to play in Portugal I thinks this is a very disappointing thing and this show how Mexicans are always jealous about other people success.
This is a typical problem for the Mexican Football Federation “FMF”, and reflects the real behavior of the people that run this institution; the best part is that Edson Rivera took the right decision for him. He was valiant and encourage, I hope he will have a great campaign in the tournament.
ResponderEliminarVery good blog!!!
Arturo Reyes, PhD