Tevez's "fear" that explains his discomfort and the timeline of his relationship with Alfaro

"Did you see the face of Tevez? Forget it, rot the costumes", "Tevez sure will have fucking Alfaro for not playing against River", "When Alfaro put it on, he walked to the court; he didn't want to play". These typical speculations of the table football bar of Monday post Superclassic were adopted by various means. The gestures of annoyance of Boca 10 on his arrival at the Monumental and the passivity at the time he replaced Mac Allister motivated all kinds of comments. It was ripe that this could happen, fused the needs of the coach and the desire to play the player, which carries a recent memory pleasant.

Tevez's disfigured face was seen before the cameras during his tour of the River Stadium ring to his refuge in the visiting locker room. But that countenance dragged him several hours ago, when in the previous talks and the last tactical training he began to realize that he was going to the bank.

That face of few friends symbolizes nothing less than the pride of a football player with a long professional career, with history in world-class clubs and a full showcase. There is a fear within Tevez himself that eats him: the chance that history repeats itself.

It is not a reference to the final lost in Madrid, but rather to a personal situation.

To understand the discomfort of the captain xeneize You have to go back to your return to the institution after your experience in China. Guillermo Barros Schelotto He opened the doors inside a fairly complete campus that had important and emerging figures.

The Twin granted him the ownership in most of the matches since the first half of 2018, where Boca conquered the two-time Super League championship. Tevez even played in the final of Super Cup against River and the Libertadores began in the starting eleven (0-0 with Alianza Lima in Peru). An injury sidelined him from the second cupping duel against Junior de Barranquilla but he returned to make noise as a visitor against Palmeiras, with a converted agonizing goal.

The Apache He ended up starting in the first phase of the Libertadores before a break during the preseason. Guillermo wanted to make a quality leap to the campus and encourage internal competition with hiring bomb of Mauro Zarate. The former Velez quickly earned his place in the team and relegated Carlitos.

In the second round against Libertad de Paraguay, Tevez added minutes jumping from the bank. The Twin gave priority to the quarterfinals of Libertadores against Cruzeiro, a rival against whom he entered in the first leg and observed sitting as a relay in the return. In between was holder in a mix for the Superclassic by Super League. And the semifinals would be more of the same: Tevez was a substitute for the entire series with Palmeiras.

Guillermo included him in the epilogue of both finals against River and Tevez showed commitment, although little could be done to reverse history. With the ghost of his retirement flying nearby, the Apache He swallowed his anger, opted for silence and finally decided to continue with the booties on. Just in January he removed his muzzle and accused his former coach of disrespecting him: "As much as I played well, I felt that Guillermo was not going to put me".

Here lies Tevez's fear: the fact of not being considered in defining instances, now, with Alfaro.

"Carlos is the emblematic player by nature who has this team, with more strong and forceful history. We have to rely on him", Gustavo Alfaro declared at his first conference. It was an ambiguous manifestation, since at the same time he clarified that in front of the shirt is Boca's shield and, behind, the name of the players, ordering priorities.

The important trajín that produced the following of meetings at the beginning of 2019 led Alfaro to rotate the formation (Tevez included). However, he suggested that 10 would be fixed for the Liberators: placed him as headline in the first four international commitments.

A knee injury marginalized him from the duel with Deportes Tolima in Colombia and his reappearance – from the bank – was by Supercopa Argentina against Rosario Central with a new title. Far from lowering his performance, Tevez entered well with Atlético Paranaense in the last duel per group stage in Copa and converted. He dismissed the semester by starting in the Super League final against Tigre. And, after the winter preseason, he again lost prominence.

The DT gave him a quarter of an hour in the first leg against Paranaense and included him 90 minutes before Hurricane by Super League. But in the rematch with the Brazilians he was substitute, as in the first boy with the Quito League in Ecuador. After Alfaro decided to put it in boot to sentence the key with the Ecuadorians who was 3-0 in favor and excluded him from the last Superclassic.

"He did not come to Boca to finish his career, he came to seek the glory. He has to be a player who joins us from all places. He has experience, ability and ancestry.", Alfaro had expressed in January. And it is the idea that he maintains so far. The same "tactical" explanations he presented to argue for Tevez's absence The last Sunday are the ones that he offered in person to him too. Because who more than Alfaro, who knows that he will remain in the eye of the storm in the face of an adverse outcome, intends the benefit of Boca?

In the pre-final with Central, the strategist referred to Tevez: "There are players who are important to close the matches". He will have defenders and detractors, but Alfaro clung to his ideas to leave his first Superclass unharmed against a rival who is currently champion of America. And, within that gear, Tevez was contemplated for the epilogue of the derby, trying to take advantage of his brain agility to hurt an exhausted river from the physical.

The bad face of Tevez is so logical for its substitution as the tactical principles of Alfaro, that he will not negotiate styles in search of the results. Neither the DT, who gives him a special treatment deserved for his scrolls and leadership in the locker room, let go of his hand; Nor Tevez, who publicly supported his "Mr." since he landed at the club, rotted his clothes.

If not long ago, Tevez declared that Alfaro was missing only Bianchi's phone. Although of course, Carlitos the pride of soccer player goes through the pores and his face last weekend spoke for himself.

Nor is it true that the strategist already considers him outside the board in the remainder of the Liberators, although the presence of 10 will be subject to the needs of the team. Like it or not.