Colombia lost the headquarters of the America Cup In Barranquilla. It was when, there, tear gas entered the field of the Romelio Martínez and irritated the eyes of none other than the Gallardo doll, today the most important and prestigious club coach on the continent, and made the players of the River Plate Argentine and, later, of the Brazilian Miner and the footballers of the Junior and America.
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The Copa América in Colombia fell on May 12. “With gases tear in the party, listening to noises, an abnormal situation in every sense ”, were the words of Gallardo, the epitaph of the Colombian headquarters.
A week before, the Conmebol it removed from Colombia the matches of its Libertadores and Suramericana cups precisely to protect the headquarters of the Copa América in the country already convulsed by the protests, blockades and confrontations of the national strike.
Marcelo Gallardo, DT of River, takes his face to protect himself from the gases.
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If a rubber bus of a team explodes between the hotel and the stadium or between the stadium and the airport they lose the venue
“If a team bus rubber explodes between the hotel and the stadium or between the stadium and the airport, they lose their headquarters,” a Conmebol source told me.
And no tire was punctured … Only tear gas entered the games that were played between outbursts by the skirmishes between the Esmad and the protesters in Barranquilla! The whole world saw it and heard it live on TV. The calculation failed. Or rather: it was a miscalculation.
Faced with sanitary restrictions in some places such as Bogota or the impossibility of counting on the Police and guaranteeing security in the stadium and on arrival and departure, as in Cali or Palmira, it was chosen to Barranquilla to play the Libertadores matches of the famous Argentine River Plate and the Brazilian Mineiro, teams of the superpowers of the area, of the owners of the largest houses in the neighborhood.
Footballers protect themselves from gases.
Then, it was calculated that in Barranquilla nothing would happen because it was the city with the lowest number of protests up to that date, and in which the image of the Government was better compared to other capitals.
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In addition, there was “the total commitment of the local authorities” to guarantee the force and security for the teams, their trips and the matches.
They believed, with total certainty, that no one in Barranquilla would throw a madrassa against Junior or against football, since it is the home of the National Team and the city of the Copa América final.
Threats on social media from the Junior’s barra brava to prevent matches against the Copa América were underestimated.
Since that day in Barranquilla tear gas entered the stunned Romelio by rounds, the America’s Cup in Colombia fell. You couldn’t puncture a bus …
The request for a government postponement for reasons of the covid pandemic was an attempt at a dignified political solution in the face of the inevitable, announced and known. They had already shot themselves in the foot.
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GABRIEL MELUK
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