Julio César Uribe, former player of the Peruvian national team and idol of Sporting Cristal, gave details of his time at Cagliari in the Serie A in Italy and revealed that at that time he made the biggest mistake of his sporting career.
Julio César Uribe told, in the program 'La fe de Cuto' of the Trome newspaper, that at that time he was elected the best foreign player in Italy's Serie A, beating Diego Maradona from Napoli and Zico de Udinese, but a bad attitude at that time did not allow him to continue playing and growing at Calcio.
JULIO CESAR URIBE AWARDED IN ITALY
“In the first year (he won his first prize), at six months. There is the first leg championship and the second leg championship. In that period of 15 matches, which were 30 at that time, after 15 matches I was recognized as the best foreign player, with Diego Maradona and Zico. I was recognized with the prize, when the three foreigners were there: Napoli takes Maradona, Udinese takes Zico and Cagliari takes me, but I had to continue, until I made the biggest mistake of my entire career. Not to accept the coach's decision and that closed the doors of Italian football for me. 100% professional on and off the court, but because of youth and interpretation of the moment, I thought that the one who produces the most must play”
THE FIGHT WITH THE UDINESE TECHNICIAN
“I have been a joker, but I have never been enlarged. My strong character gives the feeling that it can be enlarged. I have had a very strong level of conviction, that's what gives the feeling of enlarged. I've been through the banking process, but I've been obsessed with productivity. So, it's normal that when you see a productivity of 'don't score goals', 'don't kick' and 'don't give goal passes'. There is a coach who has to make decisions and when it's up to the coach to decide I say 'I don't go to bank', but professionally I admit that it was the biggest mistake of my sporting career.”
THE SPEECH OF THE PRESIDENT OF CAGLIARI
“I said 'I don't go to the bank' and he said 'What do you mean he doesn't go to the bank? Are you kidding? ' “I'm not going to the bank, you don't like me” and I didn't go. Then the coach informs the president of Cagliari that he had made this decision and the president calls me (to complain). It was cloudy. Then my wife made me see reason when I told her. The next day I apologized to the president, and he told me that he was going to get the technician out, I replied not to do it. I don't want to carry on my conscience that takes the coach out for my responsibility. I'm going to get my job back. I'm going to fight to get my job back and I got it back. Wrong, but always right”
MATURITY IN ITALY
“One lived there (Italy) always appreciates it, because I change as a person, there I mature. He arrived in Italy and played only with the ball, but in Italy I learned to play without the ball. You come out of a football where you were unbalanced, but I didn't score, I'm going to Italy without scoring. Return from Italy scoring and playing without the ball. For 85′ we did triangulations and I unfolded on the outside, they never gave me a vertical ball for me to take out the center, because I drove left and right profile. I always tell the boys, but if they were born together, why don't they kick with both of them? It's a matter of qualities. We all have different qualities, but you can enhance them in training stages, in the professional it is much more difficult. There I grew up as a person and was fulfilling my dreams based on my loved ones”
THE LESSON FOR JUAN MANUEL VARGAS
“I also told Juan Manuel Vargas this anecdote, because he was going to make the same mistake that I made in the national team. I told him 'careful I was wrong about this'. I am talking to you about the reasons, that was when I was coach of the national team in 2007. Don't make the mistake I made. I am talking to you and I have told you that you are going to play 45 minutes this game and the other is starting for these reasons. 'No, 'teacher' I won't come from that far to go to the bank. ' I'll give you 5 or 10 minutes to think. I told him this anecdote: 'It was the biggest mistake of my life and I wouldn't want you to hurt yourself like it happened to me'. Then he came and told me he was right. Then he played 45 minutes and then the whole game. I have never failed the players”
JULIUS CAESAR SPEA
“(I learned by) The jokes of my classmates, I kept the word going to the dictionary and I saw that they were bugging me. That was my learning mechanism. And so I was learning. I talked to them, they played a joke on me, then I looked up the word in the dictionary to answer one and the other. Until the same need to communicate on a daily basis led me to learn Italian”
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