Carlos Darwin Quintero regretted his little participation in the Colombian team: “it hurt me not to be called up”

Carlos Darwin Quintero, former Houston Dynamo soccer player, recalled his short time in which he was called up to the Colombia senior team. USA TODAY Sports.

Carlos Darwin Quintero, one of the Colombian strikers who in his time was positioned as one of the greatest promises in national soccer, lives what will possibly be the last chapter of his professional career and during a moment of introspection he recalled that his little participation in The Colombia team was one of the points in his life that he will never forget.

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In conversation with El Alargue de Caracol Radio, the 35-year-old striker referred to the current situation that the national team is experiencing without first remembering what his brief stint with the senior team was.

Quintero stated that, although he was aware of his talent and good scoring nose, the coaches were the ones who chose and unfortunately they ended up opting for other footballers. This point of not being taken into account by previous national selectors is one of the ones that hurts Carlos the most in his extensive professional career:

“Honestly, that will always remain in my thoughts. In the end, all the players have the confidence they have in us and at that time the coach on duty had confidence in others. It hurt not to be in many calls because of the level that was had ”

During his best years, where maturity and youth were perfectly mixed, Darwin was constantly in the orbit of the Tricolor team, however, they did not decide to bet on him. With whom he enjoyed having good playing minutes was the coach Eduardo Lara who, in 2008, made him debut with the senior team and was called up to 11 official matches, 5 of which were World Cup qualifiers.

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For his part, with whom he failed to attract attention was the Argentine coach José Néstor Pékerman, who had him on his squad for 7 World Cup qualifying games between 2012 and 2013, but only saw minutes in one of those matches, the rout against Uruguay 4-0 at the Metropolitano de Barranquilla.

In total there were 14 official matches that Carlos Darwin played with the Colombian team, within which he only managed to find the back of the net on 1 occasion.

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However, apart from his bittersweet feelings with the senior team, the striker is constantly sending the best energy to the team, including the U-20s who are already finalizing details to debut in the South American that will take place in the country. In a couple of statements with Blu Radio, Quintero sent his best wishes to the youngsters and advised them not to think as individual footballers, but as a united team:

“Enjoy them, but the first thing they do is play as a team, that was what the coach told me at the time, at that time we wanted to be very individual and he didn’t let us go any further, results are achieved if you work as a team. For that team in 2007 he was together with Juan Pablo Pino, Javier Reina, Sherman Cárdenas, Gilberto ‘Alcatraz’ García, David Ospina”.

For the moment, Carlos Darwin is preparing to start a new phase of life defending the América de Cali jersey, a club of which he confirmed that he had always been a fan. Together with Adrián Ramos, they will hope to turn the offensive line in his favor and be able to quickly secure a place among the best 8 teams in the BetPlay I-2023 League.

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