By: EFE Updated 31 Jan 2022, 18: 35 pm EST
The coach of Honduras, the Colombian Hernán Darío Gómez, said this Monday that will not leave the bench and traveled with the squad to play the match of the eleventh day of the Concacaf qualifiers against the national team of the United States.
“I don’t abandon ships like that”, said the former coach of Colombia, Ecuador, Panama and Guatemala. The trip of the Honduran national team, bottom of the octagonal final of the Concacaf qualifiers, occurs one day after falling in San Pedro Sula 0-2 against El Salvador.
Hours later, Gómez, in a brief statement hinted that could be leaving the national team due to the disappointing results since came to office: four defeats, three of them at home.
The Colombian coach said that It is normal for people to be impatient with bad results and that this also affects the players and the members of the coaching staff.
“People are very impatient, but the inheritance is not mine. That is a very hard moment, where people sometimes do not understand “, expressed the Colombian, who arrived at the position in substitution of the Uruguayan Fabián Coito, under whose direction the team had lost three games and drawn three.
The Honduran team has only added three points in ten qualifying games , which Canada leads with 22 out of 33 possible. In second place are the United States and Mexico, for the moment with the last direct place with 22.
Panama, as the fourth ranked team, is in the repechage zone with 13 integers. Costa Rica is fifth with 13, El Salvador sixth with 9 and Jamaica penultimate with 7.
The game against the United States will be played in Minnesota. The Honduran players traveled “sad” for the poor performance they have had, according to their captain, Maynor Figueroa.
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