Carnival and Soccer: A match made in hell?
By: Lugo | January 9th, 2008As next Friday and the reading of el bando approaches fast, Barranquilla gets ready to almost a month of all out-wild partying, as if barranquilleros were ever short of partying. Such frenzy undoubtedly affects the life of the players at Junior. And having such well-known party animals like Herly Alcazar or Cesar Fawcett seems like a recipe for disaster if coach Sachi Escobar wants to tighten up discipline on an team that has been traditionally loose in that aspect.
The solution that has been tried in the past is to take the team out of town, to a training facility in El Cerrejon, one of the biggest coal mining areas in the world which is in the middle of a desert. Seems like the only way to take the players far from temptations because the whole Atlantico province will be in a state of collective delirium. Given Escobar’s personality that is the most likely scenario even tough one wonders if it wouldn’t be better to just treat the players like the grown men they are and just warning them about the consequences of any excess in partying and that’s it.
Yes, you’ve read correctly. I did not say ban them from partying. I said warn them about excesses. So I think they should be allowed to party in a responsible manner and up to a reasonable hour. I know this might sound audacious to say the least, but maybe we should try to treat these adults like the adults they are so we can find out who is and who isn’t a good professional for this club.
And there still plenty of time to take the rotten apples out because the league will start weeks after the carnival. So let’s find out who those rotten apples are. We might discover they are not the one we think.
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