translated from Spanish: Sebastián Moreno defended Letelier from the reviews of Endler and “Cote” Rojas: “He has the backing of the ANFP”

Despite having fought to the end, Chile was eliminated from the Women’s World Cup. This event marked a before and after in the player’s relationship with dT, José Letelier. First it was Cristiane Endler who launched his criticism of DT for little variation in the players who entered the court in France. According to the PSG goalkeeper, players like Daniela Pardo, Fernanda Pinilla and María José Rojas “took the crest out to go to the World Cup and did not have the opportunity”. Days later, the same female Red player and reference said that “I believe that the experience in these instances plays, and should have given the opportunity to more players to play and not to those who were always.” However, the controversy did not end there, and Fue María José Rojas, one of the key players in Chile’s world ranking, who “ignited” the dressing room by commenting that “The processes are finished. It was a process of many changes. Obviously always pulling out the positives, but I think it’s time for there to be a change. I think the teacher process is over. We, as a team, need to improve in other respects in order to reach the high level.” To which he added that “as Tiane said, experience is very important. I agree with her and I think there is also a discontent of the group in general.” Faced with this controversy, and in conversation with El Mercurio, the president of the ANFP, Sebastián Moreno, came out in defense of the current DT of the female Red, stating that “of course he has the absolute backing of the ANFP. José Letelier is very important in the development process that we have been in two years (…) We respect the autonomy of the coach in the technical decisions, we do not think about that. The helmsman of Chilean football also noted that it is important to start preparing the repechage for the 2020 Tokyo Olympics, which the nationals qualified after being second in the World Cup qualifiers. According to Moreno, two or three preparatory friendlies are being managed for that match to be played on July 4 next year against the African Cup vice-champion. For this the ideal is to play matches with selections from that continent. Since the internship, they indicate that Chile’s potential rivals in friendlies would be Nigeria and South Africa. “There are three female FIFA dates this year. We’ll try to play in all of them. Since before the World Cup we were exploring potential rivals and we will have news pointed out, Moreno argued.



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