A few days ago, the president of Deportivo Cali, Marco Caicedo, delivered statements to various media in which he explained the continuity of coach Alfredo Arias, among other things not only because he still had a contract with the institution until December, a month after the Current members of the Executive Committee must finish their term, but because there is no money to pay compensation.
As for whether it was a mistake to have two years of contract, Caicedo pointed out in ‘Deportes sin Tapujos that “in reality he was given one year and then another, it is very difficult to answer, one will always be measured by being a champion or not, of course, no we got the title and that was a mistake. If he had resigned, it is possible that we would have accepted the resignation because there is a contractual issue of termination and that is one of the factors, among others, that made us give continuity, in any case, I insist that qualitatively we have liked the Alfredo’s style of play and our great sin has been the lack of effectiveness in the opposite area, we really generated a significant volume and the numbers are not bad.
I agree that the ‘teacher’ has made a mistake and I can remember that perhaps in two games, one due to his attitude in the expulsion he received against Millonarios, an unnecessary game to have been exalted and that cost us later, although he later explained that he never offended the referees, and I believe him, but what happened happened. And the other mistake was not having closed the 1-0 adverse score that we had in Ibagué when they expelled Robles, instead of continuing to look for the front, expose himself, it ended up happening that in the last 14 minutes they scored two goals, that killed us. And in the last game we had it, we won 2-0. That was a mistake not to have closed the arc to have returned with a minimal score ”.
Well, this Tuesday the Uruguayan coach appeared again before the journalists of the capital of the Valley and clarified that after being eliminated in the quarterfinals of the final of the BetPlay I-2021 League against Tolima, he even offered them to leave without compensation in return and that no one answered him. However, when contrasting the version, he left on the table that there is time to change the decision, if they really do not want him to remain in the club.
Alfredo began his talk with what happened after losing 3-0 in Ibagué in the first game: “In that match we lose the least defeated goal, normally the champion teams have the least defeated goal or the highest scoring front. We lost the least defeated fence in that game, we didn’t have numbers to be champions. Even so, things will have been done well, depending on the worst offenses in goals, we were one goal away from qualifying. To clarify, I am not giving excuses, I am not giving figures because the fan is not interested or cares about anything because he wants to be a champion, I cannot promise the fan to be a champion, I tell him today, I said it at the time, I do promise him that We are going to play to be champions, we always play every game to win. There was a moment in the game in which we speculated ”.
About why he did not resign when he was eliminated from the box ‘vonotinto y oro’, he said that “it is not an answer that I have to give, but I will say what I feel: Beyond that this is my passion and I live to this every time I wear a shirt, it is a job which involves a contract with rights and obligations for both parties. If either party does not comply, it has to compensate the other for the breach of the contract. But it goes beyond whether I resigned and had to pay money, that the truth is that I have not resigned anywhere and I am not going to. Renunciation is not a word in me, renunciation does not exist for me. If I was wrong or right, but I worked honestly and with dignity, I am not going to resign, but I could lose games and the championship, but what I am not going to lose is dignity ”.
Arias added that “if anyone has doubts that I am not worthy because I am staying, I will answer them with this: After the match with Tolima I called the leaders, the technical manager and the president, and how words sometimes remain In the air, I also wrote messages saying that I released the club from my compensation, that if it was for money that they left me, they would not hesitate and bring someone better than me. I released the club, it is one of the things that hurts me that no one has said it, I released the club and the president from the compensation to be paid, I did it expressly in three or four people with written messages, I asked that they answer us before finish the week because if they were not going to continue with us, it was best to stay, arrange the termination, without compensation, they only had to pay me until the day I worked, which is what I have done everywhere, nobody he has had to pay an extra peso and I have tried to fulfill the contract ”.
After receiving the counterpoint of three journalists about what happened, he maintained that “that is my answer, I could have lost games, I could have made mistakes because I am a human being, but I am worthy, the dignity that my parents taught me, a year ago and I mean I don’t go home, I was able to go on vacation this year, I stayed here working with the U17 and U20, with the players who had been loaned to other teams. If someone has doubts about my dignity, they do not know me, that offer still stands, because as I came across some statements that do not agree with what we had discussed, this offer still stands, we are on time. I don’t stay anywhere where they don’t want me, but I do ask to be paid until the day I work ”.
Marco Antonio Garcés
Correspondent Futbolred Cali
On twitter: @marquitosgarces
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