“He believes he has the moral authority to tell the other if he is right or wrong when there is another who imparts justice, it seemed to me an arrogant act”. This Friday, Sebastián Beccacece It had been very hard to remember his crossing with Marcelo Gallardo, in the first game of both teams in the semester, on June 5. Instead, the DT of Defense and Justice lowered the tone and content of his words in the conference after the victory against Banfield: “We are going to play against the best team and the best coach of the last ten years,” said Becca when beating the duel against River this Wednesday in Resistencia (from 9:30 p.m.), for the round of 16 of the Cup Argentina.
The intense blonde who lives each game with a thousand heartbeats, took the opportunity to explain that “I don’t have anything personal (with Gallardo), they asked me about a particular situation and I expressed what happened at that moment, but that’s it, I said it and it’s over”. In any case, his sentences had really been very strong hours before, therefore in his last contact with the media he preferred to avoid the subject and focus on what will happen in the next few hours.
Although Beca said that at the moment he did not work on time in the game against River (“I still don’t know, I have to sit down, think about it, analyze what I can use…”) and clarified that “he is not the Defense of before” because the team is going through a reconstruction in this second half of 2022, he did not spare praise for River or for Gallardo, although he did not exceed either…
Just a spade from the past?
There are still sparks lit from that spicy back and forth between the coaches that was experienced in Florencia Varela: the challenging “who did you eat, idiot?” of Beccacece and the “he’s crazy, this one” of the Muñeco. Because off the field there was another chapter. When Gallardo had already closed his press conference – where he sought to mitigate the rebound of the conflict by saying that “I just didn’t like the attitude he had of getting into the field and I let him know” and while he was heading towards the locker room, in the hallway passed BKCC, who was about to speak with the media.
There, according to witnesses, there was a tumult between the relatives and members of both technical bodies as well as shouts and insults. Security people even had to intervene to calm things down. It is what the DT of the Halcón tried to do this Saturday, hours after having relit the fuse. “Over time one must have impeccable ethics and morals, and that has not happened,” Beca had said on ESPN.
