Football Venezuela captain doesn’t trust La Roja’s bad moment: ‘We have been in this place and they cannot be considered dead’

Tomás Rincón is one of the veteran players who will participate in the match between La Roja and Venezuela. In fact, Fernando Batista trained with the 36-year-old midfielder as a starter, even though he had not featured in previous matches. Santos’ current midfielder who played in Hamburg, Juventus or Turin, will be the captain of the Vinotinto team at the National Stadium. There, he will face Arturo Vidal on the field. Both defended their team during the 2010 South Africa qualifiers. In fact, another coincidence is that they were both in the South American Sub 20 in 2007. A fact that shows the hierarchy they have.

Now, as the confrontation approaches which begins this Tuesday at 9 p.m., in Ñuñoa, the historic player anticipates what the duel against Chile will look like. “We undoubtedly need a victory, but we have been in Chile’s place several times and we cannot consider them dead,” analyzed the midfielder. Rincón, as evidenced by his almost two decades with his team, must have experienced everything at Vinotinto. Good times and bad times. Now the Llanera team is in seventh place, with 12 units. A victory on this visit, or even a draw, would eliminate Chile from the World Cup race. This is the objective that the foreign team has set for itself in the short term.

“It will be a difficult match, we will prepare well,” adds the midfielder. Although they remain in playoff position, in Venezuela they also suffer from a streak without adding three. Without going any further, their last victory took place precisely against La Roja, a little over a year ago, in Maturín. Now they hope to hug again. In the Qualifiers, which are now one and a half places higher than in previous processes, they retained seventh place based on numerous ties. Several very meritorious ones, like against Uruguay, Brazil and Argentina. The defeats they suffered were against Bolivia and Paraguay. Both in visiting status.

Finally, Rincón analyzes its possibilities. “It will be a complicated match. If we are good and competitive, we have a good chance of getting a result,” he concluded. Against Scratch, in the match that ended 1-1 and was marked by the penalty that Bruno Romo saved from Vinicius Junior, the midfielder played 22 minutes. Previously, he played 59 minutes in the draw, also 1-1, between Vinotinto and Albiceleste. As for Santos, who plays in Brazilian Serie B, the outlook is complex, since he played little or not at all during the second part of the year. Since the October FIFA date, he has only been present in two matches of the Brazilian team, where he added five and eight minutes respectively.