Is Valdez the guy who's playing at San Lorenzo? If so, it might be that they are just letting him stay at San Lorenzo so he can adapt to his club because its a hectic schedule in argentina this season because they have to fit the whole tournament in before the world cup. In fact, there are midweek games next week so we won't have Balanta or Teo for our game against Tigre. And also to the guy who said Balanta is playing like shit, all you need to do is look at how we did against Colon with Funes Mori playing instead. Now THAT is playing like shit. I'd go as far as to say Tigre has 50% more chance of beating us with the muerto Funes Mori playing instead of Eder
I'm pretty sure the guy who said balanta is shit because he has not watched a complete match of river with balanta.. and his opinions are based on those who talk crap on him in other forums.lol
http://msn.foxsports.com/soccer/sto...-of-season-030414?cmpid=tsmfb:fscom:foxsoccer Huh, so the rumors will go up with a new defender. Although I wonder if they're still interested in Balanta.
Y bueno en river jugo en esa posición un par de veces, y en este campeonato viene jugando de stopper por izquierda en una linea de tres.
Yepes, feliz con la llegada de Balanta a la Selección El exdefensor de River se deshizo en elogios para el juvenil y contó qué le aportará al equipo que dirige José Pekerman. "Descubrí un muchacho muy humilde, una persona con muchos deseos de adaptarse. Seguramente lo de las condiciones no lo voy a descubrir yo, ni nadie, por eso está haciendo lo que hizo en River y ahora en la Selección. Pero descubrí un joven que es importante como persona, se amoldó bien y de a poco le va a aportar en lo futbolístico y en lo humano al equipo", indicó en declaraciones a ESPN Report (FM 107.9). http://www.riverplate.com/Noticias/...alvarez-balanta-seleccion-colombia-river.html
If Balanta was Argentinean would you guys think he will have a chance to make the team that goes to the world cup
Mmmmmm, I don't know. Probably not. He's doing great in River and a lot of us would love to have a defender like him in the NT, but I still don't know if he would get a call-up. Mussachio is one of the best defenders in Europe and is being closely followed by Barca, yet he hasn't been called up once by Sabella. Same goes for Gonzalo Rodriguez, who has been excellent in the Italian league for a while now playing for Fiorentina. Sabella seems to have a set of players chosen from a while back, without taking into consideration players' current form, so it's hard for players that haven't been part of the long term process to make it into the team -- even if they are doing much better than those in the squad.
http://bleacherreport.com/articles/...sk-of-missing-the-2014-fifa-world-cup/page/14 They don't think that Balanta will make it, and it's understandable.
Zuniga will be healthy as he is 'training' in SOME Form. His own ACL is naturally taking longer but the best part is that he still has 2 months and is ahead of Falcao recovery-wise. But Balanta is not in the same situation as Arias where we held no options and needed to use him. Yepes is retiring and so is Perea (obviously after the world cup from the national team) and I see Balanta only making it to the world cup if used as a DM (I mean, that's the major weakness we have with no solid connection between our defense and midfielders).
I think the spot itself could come down to Balanta or Medina. Tactically Pekerman may experiment with Valencia as he did against Brazil or even Cuadrado back there as he did against Bolivia if I remember correctly. I don't even want to think about Zuniga being out. I hope he pulls through and comes back better than ever.
I mean once the world cup most this team is done I think. Mondragon, Mosquera(if he gets called), Perea, Yepes, maybe Aldo, Elkin etc. Our Copa America 2015 team will be very different then this one and our 2015 Copa America in the US will be much different. Balanta won't go to the WC because he isn't ready and he really isn't good enough yet. I think Franco, Murillo and Medina are all better CBs then him they just don't play for River plate. If it was him or Perea def pick him but him over any of those 3 or Carlos Valdez. I just don't see anything too special in this kid.
On the contrary I've been watching him play, and he's been excellenct. I think he's better than Zapata, he reminds me of a young yepes but even faster the him at his prime. Added he has excellent ball control for a 6'2 guy
Grande jugada de Eder en el gol... Demostró su calidad y grandeza PERO... Tiene q dejar de hacer faltas tontas cerca del área... Así no ayuda a River, ni la selección, ni a cualquier club europeo q lo quiera comprar
Fue el peor partido de eder con la camiseta de River, me parece.. lo interesante es que ni el ni teo jugaron bien hoy, pero los dos terminaron siendo claves en la jugada del primer gol, y asi entonces fueron determinantes en la victoria de River.