The prominent soccer coach, former director of the Colombian National Team and former Cúcuta Deportivo coach, Jorge Luis Pinto, returned to the country loaded with good news, after a brief season as head of the United Arab Emirates team in Dubai.
As it turned out, Pinto managed to gather and convince a group of Arab oil businessmen in Dubai to invest in Cúcuta Deportivo and this team can return to compete in the rented Colombian soccer tournament.
Due to the disastrous and erratic management given in recent years to Cúcuta by its majority shareholder, José Augusto Cadena, the Motilón team is going through the worst crisis in its almost centennial history. At present, the rojinegro team is without sports recognition and was disaffiliated from Dimayor, the rector of Colombian professional soccer that many Cucuteños helped to found and consolidate over the years. Cúcuta Deportivo is currently in the judicial liquidation process.
Pinto gave the potential buyers of Cúcuta all the information, protocols and documentation that they requested about their economic and financial status. Progress has already been made in defining some criteria on possible business alternatives to save the doubly glorious.
As it transpired, what has most attracted the attention of the Arab oil tankers is the robustly loyal fans and fans that the red-black team has in Cúcuta, in Norte de Santander and in the border area.
“That guarantees significant income,” said a source close to the talks.
In recent years, the United Arab Emirates has intensified its commercial and business relations with Colombia and other Latin American countries, and has shown interest in agribusiness and large-scale mining.
The connection or purchase of several soccer teams in Latin America is also part of this agenda.
The talks for the salvation of Cúcuta have advanced so much to the point that there is already a protocol for the selection of its new technical director. On the list of candidates, as we were informed from a good source, is the former technical director of Colombia, Carlos Queiroz. There is also talk of the possible return of Argentine strategist Lucas Pusineri.
Finally, it was established that the former coach Jorge Luis Pinto has scheduled a virtual conference to report on these developments at noon today, Monday, December 28, the Day of the Holy Innocents.
