To qualify for the World Cup, the Columbia team had to make it through the qualifiers in South Africa. They breezed through that test with the help of their superstar player, Radamel Falcao. Columbia performed so well, in fact, it looked like they were going to be the sure winners of the entire World Cup in 2014. That changed when the team lost their amazing striker, Falcao to a torn ACL at the French Cup game. He tried to recover fast enough, but just two days ago he officially pulled himself off of the Columbia team for the upcoming World Cup. For any other team, this would be the end. However, even though Columbia greatly benefitted from the outstanding skill of Falcao, they still have a lot of talent and depth in their team. Even though their captain is gone, Columbia still has about four great attack, goal scoring players ready to step in. Of course, there are other major teams with a lot of great attackers (Uruguay and Chile among them) but Columbia has the added advantage that they can defend just as well as they can attack. Therefore, even without the legendary Falcao, Columbia may still have a shot at winning the World Cup and raising the trophy on July 13.
The strategy for Columbia has to change slightly without Falcao. The team’s manager José Pékerman has moved from a 4-2-3-1 to a 4-4-2 for fluidity. Right now Pékerman is really heavily using an attack partnership with Carlos Bacca of Sevilla and River Plate’s Teófilo Gutiérrez. If that pairing doesn’t work, he has many other options with a great batch of players. If Columbia has about seven or even eight players near the penalty area of their opponent then they are golden. They have great midfielders who will step up and make this scenario a reality.
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