Torrado is not terrified: he has seen worse things

LOS ÁNGELES – Gerardo Torrado acquits the five selected Mexicans who were locked five hours in a New York disco in the middle of the Tri.

"They met their schedules," explains the sports director of Tri. It is covered by the internal regulations that do not prohibit that the summoned players, in their free hours, go to places where alcohol is consumed, and are exposed to the natural transfer of the type of sui generis coexistence that awaits them.

Gerardo Torrado is not terrified of these facts. He lived them during his almost 15 years as a national team. Eye: he was nicknamed 'El Borrego', but not because it was a recurring sheep that was added to the party flocks.

At age 20, for example, in the Copa América de Paraguay, with the national team hosted in the neighboring city of Foz de Iguazú, he met the night pilgrimages of some of his teammates to a couple of places with tubular fantasy dancers, and willing to run lascivious pranks in the privacy of their small cubicles.

Torrado was amazed how the coaching staff seemed not to notice these massive evasions of players in full competition, and how some players acted as human wheelbarrows of their teammates.

Or, for example, when in 2001, in the Copa América de Colombia, after eliminating Chile and advancing to Semifinals in Pereira, some of his teammates were thrown out of their rooms, because the directors of that Mexican delegation rewarded the enormous effort hiring a retinue of nymphs so that, presumably, that with therapeutic massages, they would reconstitute the tricolor gladiators.

Or, for example, Gerardo Torrado, already mature, had to realize how in the 2007 Copa América, in the concentration in Puerto La Cruz, in Venezuela, his colleagues distributed the departures, especially with the support of a Colombian taxi driver, to different places where public or private parties were held.

They were known by everyone, including the good Torrado, the excursions of Nery Castillo and Cuauhtémoc Blanco, to the spectacular nightclub on a hill near the Tricolor hotel. Of course, Hugo Sánchez, then a technician from Mexico, awaited the arrival of his chicks, on the terrace of the hostel, before going to sleep.

Or in the middle of the World Cup, in Gotingen, despite having comfortable and very comfortable rooms, some selected escaped to a lower category hotel, just next to the train station, just a few meters from the favorite restaurant of Ricardo LaVolpe.

Or maybe Torrado remembers that tricolor tour of the Terma Centaurus in Rio de Janeiro, in the 2013 Confederations Cup, with Giovani dos Santos, Javier Aquino, Javier Hernández, Aldo de Nigris, Andrés Guardado, and Francisco Javier Rodríguez, as pilgrims in search of physical spiritual relief to their sorrows.

These are isolated events, which occurred during official competitions. There are other sample buttons, including in Gold Cups, friendly games, and other American Cups or Confederations or World Cups, but these are enough to expose that Gerardo Torrado, without being a participant, has witnessed or been aware of those other night excursions National teams.

It helps little that Gerardo Torrado overlaps or pimps Miguel Layún, Guillermo Ochoa, Marco Fabián, Javier Hernández and Carlos Salcedo, on that strange journey through a sensational site, which at lunchtime, has more active, playful, bullanguera life, which a carnival

Send a wrong message, because now, any indiscipline, disagreement of other players, force Gerardo Torrado, sports director of the Tri, to have to measure everyone with the same rod.

Above, Torrado rewards instead of repressing its players. He thanks, acknowledges and commends them, that they arrived at the concentration dinner on time, no matter exactly what they were doing before.

Néstor de la Torre, once trapped by the pernicious society of Justino Compeán and Decio de María, and abusing Rafa Márquez, explained the regulations of the Tri concentrations.

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Nestor indicated that the player, from his arrival to the Tri and until the last day, was forbidden to frequent places that put the player and national team in moral and physical risk, because it was the responsibility of the FMF to guarantee security during his stay.

Recall that Nestor de la Torre was trapped by that perverse partnership between Justino Compeán and Decio de María, abusing Rafa Márquez, to provoke his resignation from the National Selections Commission, after sanctioning the parranderos at that concentration in Monterrey.

In addition, where is the authority and discipline exercise of Tata Martino, who demands extreme control of these situations, if Gerardo Torrado, officially, representing even the Argentine coach according to the FMF organization chart, not only gives the consent to these leaks, but congratulates them because, despite their suffered day, they arrive on time.

Part of the explanation is that in reality: Torrado is not terrified of what he sees today in the Tri, because as a player he came to see worse things.