“They accused me of witchcraft and there was a hitch,” says Pedro Quiñónez to explain his departure from the Ecuador team led by Reinaldo Rueda, whom he calls a ‘cowardly coach’ | Football | sports

Seven years have passed since the preparation process for the 2014 World Cup in Brazil and Pedro Quiñónez revealed another reason why he was excluded from the list of the Ecuadorian team for that competition by the Colombian Reinaldo Rueda, who was the coach at the time.

On May 9, 2020, Quiñónez commented: “There were people within the team with a lot of envy, for everything they had been doing. Many things were manifested. I left La Tri because I rejected a businessman ”.

“I was about to sign for a Saudi team. An entrepreneur asked me for $ 350,000 for the transaction. He interceded a lot for me to be removed from the national team and in my position they brought a younger player who represented that agent. For ethics, I don’t want to give names (…). The truth will come out one day, “said the flyer on the radio. Play FM Deportes.

Now, the midfielder, in an interview with radio Diblu, He stated: “I wish coach Rueda the best, but he was a coward because he did not tell Gustavo Quinteros, when there was the transition in the technical direction, why he had left me out of the World Cup. When Professor Quinteros sits down with Rueda and asks him the reasons for my absence from the Tricolor for the World Cup, he said that he did it because Carlos Gruezo was better than me (…) ”.

“Rueda did not have enough eggs … to tell him that there were between six and seven players who went to his room and said that Pedro was doing witchcraft (to his teammates) in the middle of the field. He did not tell him and he showed that he is a cowardly coach. He let himself be carried away by what they told him and not by my conditions ”, continued the midfielder, which was one of the mainstays for Emelec to be three-time national champion (2013, 2014 and 2015).

“To talk about that you must present evidence. The person who may have accused me is that he was in those things or believes in it. When I came back I passed with my family and I left that in the hands of God ”, he said.

And he highlighted: “Well, there are certain things that are not worth remembering, because they are events that make you sad; I sometimes shut up, like at that time, and say it’s okay, God is the only one who knows what kind of player I am, the conditions I have and I thank God that he gave me this gift of playing ”.

“If I did not go to that World Cup it was because capable was not the time, it happened like that. Many judged and criticized me in various ways, including that there was a tie in the national team and they accused me of many things such as witchcraft and so many assholes … At the end of the day God agrees with you and that year many footballers traveled (to Brazil 2014 ) that they should not be there and it did not go well for Tri. There were acts of indiscipline and, supposedly, they said that the bad vibes of the group was me, but they were comments from people who wanted to do something within the national team such as handling the entire business issue, “added Quiñónez, who plays for the Deportivo Estudiantes de Basin of the second category.

In his speech, the midfielder acknowledged that there were struggles within the Tricolor. “There were players who wanted to manage groups, but I am one of the people who are not going to come and tell me what to do and who are not going to take away the captain’s tape from so-and-so and give it to someone else. The one who deserves the captain’s tape is the one who has more experience, even though the other is in that part (abroad); By not supporting that, this type of friction happens that now, after a long time, I analyze and conclude that that is why they armed it (to get me off the payroll to the World Cup). In the end life goes on and in that year (2014) I came out two-time champion with Emelec. It hurt me not to go to Brazil because I had played those qualifiers and had been in important games ”. (D)