The dust has now somewhat settled on Claudio Bravo’s very public dispute with those in charge of Chilean football.
Manchester City’s back-up goalkeeper had demanded the country take on a goalkeeping coach he had chosen and when Chile’s football association refused, Bravo knocked back his latest call-up.
He didn’t come out of it looking great. Somehow, sensible seeming Bravo had, over a period of events, managed to wrestle the prima donna crown from Arturo Vidal.
The first national get-together after World Cup qualification failure was supposed to be a fresh start, report La Cuarta, with previous incidents being forgiven. Bravo’s wife suggesting there were ‘drunks’ in the camp and then the Manchester City player’s mother-in-law getting involved, were incidents everyone wanted to move on from.
Therefore it didn’t help that it was Bravo causing a scene.La Curta quote Chile’s manager Reinaldo Rueda as saying, after explaining Bravo is an important figure in the national set-up: “Everything can happen if he accepts the conditions of being in the national team, without the request he made.”
Bravo has lost power, or wasn’t as powerful as he’d considered, and now he needs to decide whether to backdown or see the end of his international career.
