The Colombian coach, Jorge Luis Pinto, confirmed that he had decided to choose four assistants for him in training the national team, pointing out that he had focused on the importance of mastering his assistants to the English language so that they could understand with the "white" players and transfer his instructions easily, explaining that he had already chosen two names, They are Freddy Rincon and Gilberto Arenas.
Pinto told the Colombian newspaper, "Antena" that "fluency in the English language is an important condition for the task of communication to become easier, especially since all players in the UAE team are fluent in English, which is the dominant feature in the country in general, alongside the Arabic language."
It is noteworthy that Rincon and Arenas had previously worked with Pinto in training the Honduran national team, from 2014 to 2017, as Rincon is one of the historical stars of the Colombian football, especially since he participated with "coffee growers" in three World Cup championships in the 1990, 1994 and 1998 versions, and is the most important goal In his career that he scored against Germany in the third round of the group stage of the 1990 World Cup in Italy, which came in the last minute of the match that ended with a goal for each team, and Colombia got the card to qualify for the second round, knowing that Rincon participated essential in his team’s match against a national team UAE in the first round, which ended with Colombia winning two goals without response.
Rincon has a wonderful career at the level of the clubs in which he played, as the 53-year-old coach started his career with Atletico Penventura, Colombia, and had several professional experiences, most notably with Real Madrid, Naples and Palmeiras, Santos, Cruzeiro and Corinthians.
For his part, the coach, physicist Gilberto Arenas, is one of the primary names in the technical staff of Pinto, since he is basically a physicist, and he has many scientific disciplines at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. The 55-year-old coach is a university teacher, as well as an assistant coach in many clubs in Colombia, while working with the teams was limited to joining the Pinto technical team in training Honduras.