A strong version that emerged in Uruguayan media claims that four key players from the Uruguay national team, Sergio Rochet, Manuel Ugarte, Rodrigo Bentancur, and Federico Valverde, confronted Marcelo Bielsa and requested a meeting to express their dissatisfaction with the physical load of the training sessions and propose a modification in the game strategy.
The players conveyed to the coach that "we can't stand this way of training," and argued that several members of the squad arrived with a significant load of matches, injuries, or physical discomfort. They also recalled that before the friendly match against the United States, in which Uruguay was heavily defeated, the last training session was of very high intensity and that this was felt during the match.
