Although Bragantino, led by the Portuguese Pedro Caixinha, could not hurt him, the strategist stressed that he is a rival who is “five steps above many teams in South America; “It’s a Brazilian team and it’s in the Copa Libertadores.”
With that clear picture, Gómez, who led Colombia in the 1998 World Cup in France, Ecuador in South Korea-Japan 2002 and Panama in Russia 2018, included the Uruguayan defender Joaquín Varela and the Argentine forward Agustín Vuletich in the group of travelers. .
In the golden delegation, which stopped in Bogotá and then embarked for Sao Paulo, There is also the Venezuelan goalkeeper José Contreras and the midfielders Jhon Fredy Salazar and Guillermo Celis, who played for Portuguese Benfica and Vitória Guimarães, as well as the winger Felipe Pardo, with a past at Sporting de Braga (Portugal), Olympiacos (Greece) and Nantes (France).