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Joaquín Laborde
A pure naturalness, to pure simplicity, as he lives, Felippe Omar left a phrase at the exit of the visiting locker room of the stadium Maracaná that summarizes almost everything: “They told me to beat Flamengo Here it was a quilombo. I went to Malvinas … They have no notion of what a quilombo is “
At 18, in 1982, he was in the battle zone, living from the Falklands War inside the conflict between Argentina and England, with combat and rifle clothes in hand, as he tells it and testifies multiple photographs. Today, at 63, Felippe Omar He is the architect of a historical impact.
In command of the modest Central Córdoba From Santiago del Estero, he designed the plan that resulted in the first victory of an Argentine team against Flamengo in the Maracana. It was 2-1, with conviction to stand in the game, to never rule out the arch and of course with passages of suffering.
Without dramatizing football but appealing to a speech that is usually linked to combat, almost certainly influenced by his life story, after the feat of Felippe reviewed some concepts that he went down to his team and that seems to have been key.
“We always express them to the kids who believe in what they do and that they will have to fight. Life is a fight. Football is fighting, imposing and taking advantage of what we can. I told them that they were going to make us run a lot, but that we were going to have possibilities. And we had many. We are happy because we made history,” he said Of Felippe.
“These players have a barbarian heart. Never give themselves, never, never, never …”, followed the coach of Central Córdoba. He added: “We had to contain this team. We had to resist. Development was going to be resist, resist, resist, to overcome. I am happy for the kids, because they were lions. We were fair winners. We are a humble team, which fights with what we have. We knew we put them together that we had to use. The stop ball was another tool that we had studied. And so we made the second goal.”
Of Felippe He is a low profile coach. As a player, he drew a trajectory without great relief: Hurricane, Arsenal, Once Caldas, Villa Miter, Rosario Puerto Belgrano and Olimpo. Already as a technician, everything was enhanced since his first time in 2008. He started and did not stop. Without shining but winning the respect of the entire Argentine football environment: Olympus, Quilmes, Independiente, Emelec de Ecuador, Vélez, Newell’s, Atlético Tucumán, Platense and now Central Córdoba.
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In his record, Of Felippe It holds three promotions to First Division with Olimpo, Quilmes and Independiente; And in the First Division, a title with Emelec and does very recently the consecration in the Argentine Cup with Central Córdoba, the first star in that well humble club, of the North Argentina, something unthinkable absolutely. But he didn’t stop there. He came here. Until this passion fruit.
Felippe knows that football is very changing. That is why he repeated: “Football is football. Sometimes you are doing well, sometimes you are doing badly. One day you are Guardiola and the other you are Felippe … It’s like that. Technicians enjoy this, but it lasts that little because people want to win all the time.”
In recent weeks, as happens every time it approaches April 2 and commemorates the day of veterans and the fallen in the Falklands War, again Felippe had emerged with that heavy story. Because it was in combat zone. Because a couple of times death won him. Because he saw fellow soldiers to a couple of meters. However, all that shows that he assimilated it. Go if it shows … maybe football helped him.
The same as Felippe tried to explain him once and alone.
