Colombia head coach Nestor Lorenzo is apprehensive {that a} sizzling Shakira halftime present will trigger his gamers to chill off in a championship sport.
The 2024 Copa América remaining halftime has been prolonged from a conventional quarter-hour to 25 minutes so as to accommodate a efficiency from Shakira.
“I hope you take pleasure in, Shakira is nice,” he mentioned in his information convention forward of Sunday’s remaining with Argentina. “For a remaining, when the foundations change for each groups, unhealthy pitches for each or identical climate for each, then I can’t say if its unhealthy or if it favors one aspect.
“I can’t perceive it, I want it had been like the remaining. Once we got here out within the sixteenth minute we had been sanctioned, however now that there’s a present we are able to come out within the Twentieth-minute mark. Gamers can get chilly, nevertheless it’s on either side. I came upon at present that that is how it’s, and that’s it.”
The coach referenced incidents within the group stage that noticed managers from Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay suspended for one match after every staff arrived late to the sphere of play.
The Copa América is the highest males’s quadrennial soccer match contested amongst nationwide groups from South America. It’s the third-most watched on the planet.